'Check and mate!': Housemate leaves roommate high and dry, refusing to help out around the house after his belongings keep disappearing

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Sienna Varady
Apr 22, 2024 7:00 PM EDT

Your time in college can be the best of your life. That said, a lot of it relies on how well you get along with your roommates because living in peace in an apartment is essential to the experience.

The roommate who has been driven to the point of no return is described in the story below. The original poster (OP) is a student who shares an apartment with multiple other people. Since everyone tried their best not to step on each other's toes, everything went smoothly at first. But as time passed and people grew accustomed to their new circumstances, the harmony within the household broke, and an 'every man for himself' mentality took hold.

So, be sure to read the story below if you're interested in learning what happened to push OP over the edge! After you're done, don't forget to read about the construction worker who, after years of mistreatment, offers his old micromanager a job!

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    "For better or worse, you're going to get what you deserve..."
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    Haven't done a the dishes in weeks
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    I'm not sure if this falls under malicious compliance or petty revenge or a combo of both tbh. But anyway, I'm a college student with roommates who love to use my stuff even though we had a roommate agreement and I basically said "ask first" if you'd like to use my stuff. That lasted a week because apparently they think if I let them use my stuff once it gives them permission to do it all the time. I noticed one roommate in particular
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    had taken a liking to my frying pan and mugs. Specifically, these are 4 identical glass mugs. One day I was doing the dishes and was in a rush to get somewhere and noticed there were two of my mugh in the sink. I went to the girl and said something along the lines of hey if you're going to use my mugs please clean them. Then she said okay. I left both in the sink after doing the dishes I used. I come back after a weekend at home to find those two mugs still in there with coffe from 3 days
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    earlier marinating in there and another one of my cups in there. I talk to her multiple other times in the following weeks about how if she plans on using my stuff she shall clean it. Once I realized this stuff was not being cleaned I decided, well if people don't wanna clean my stuff that they use, why on earth should I clean my stuff that I use. So I stopped doing my dishes. Funny enough three days later this girl nagged me about doing the dishes, so I said then do yours. And she said that the
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    responded with the fact that all 4 of the mugs she has used are in there and my pan. She said "those are your dishes". Her logic is basically if she doesn't own it she can use it without cleaning it. So I started not only leaving my dishes in the sink but using hers. Anyways I haven't done the dishes in 3 weeks. If it bothers her so much she would clean her stuff that I used but apparently according to her I have to clean them because I used it. Hypocrites are so funny to mess with
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    9lobaldude 15 hr. ago Clean your stuff, remove it and then start using her stuff without cleaning it
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    Classic-Ad-6001 OP 15 hr. ago • Will do
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    Meowsilbub 12 hr. ago Just to say, that's exactly what I did with previous terrible roommates. They NEVER did the dishes, and it got to the horrifically ridiculous point. I ended up clearing a shelf in my room for my dishes (silverware, plates, bowls, pan, pot, even the strainer). Use em, wash em, put them in my room that I kept locked. Voila! Dishes for me even
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    when the sink was beyond full of nasty dirty dishes of theirs. They got better, but it took a full month of an over-filled sink. I also kept a lot of my snacks and other things in my room... figured if they had no respect for my dishes, why would they have respect for other things as well?
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    marvinsands · 2 hr. ago Also, if you need the sink emptied, get a cardboard box and put their dirty dishes in it, and place the box in their bedroom.
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    SeanBZA 2 hr. ago • Place outside the bedroom, on the floor, not in. That way they cannot accuse you of trespassing onto theor area, and all can see the box as well. Make sure as well the box has no tape on the bottom, so when they lift it up all fall out.
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    Available-Rule-156 16 hr. ago What you really should do is clean them and remove all of your stuff from being used by other people:)
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    stinstin555.15 hr. ago Do you have a lock on your bedroom door? If so install shelves and keep your things in there. Had to help my niece do this because her roommate was using all of her stuff and whenever she wanted to use her stuff it was dirty in the sink.
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    Nope. Auntie paid for that stuff, Auntie flew down one weekend made a Target run and helped her install the shelves, get Mason Jars for her eating utensils and small covered storage bins for her snacks, coffee, tea etc.
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    Classic-Ad-6001 OP 14 hr. ago No I share a room with her! It's a dorm not apartment. I would do all that if I could!
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    stinstin555 14 hr. ago • Trunk with a lock. It can sit at the foot of your bed.
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    penlowe 15 hr. ago So I ran into that in college. There were three of us. Roomie J made tuna helper then left for the weekend leaving the stinky pot in the sink. Roomie R, who was the kindest, sweetest, most passive roomie I ever had was done with the antics and took all her dirty dishes and put them on her bed. Not dumped, just placed. J never did that again.
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    buboe 15 hr. ago I had a similar roommate. Left Rice a Roni in the sink for six weeks. Other roommate and I asked him multiple times to clean it up. and mop the floor which was covered in sticky beer from a party he had thrown one weekend when we were out.
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    We ended up throwing all his dirty dishes on his bed and pouring some of that sweet rotten rice juice in his baseboard heater. We left a nice note and waited in our room for him to come home. He did a lot of c sing and b hing but he did do the dishes and mopped the floor. He then took all his stuff
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    and moved it into his bedroom, which we didn't care as most of the good stuff was mine. Then he somehow totally avoided us for 3 or 4 weeks. I have more stories about him, but this was the one that ruined what was left of our friendship.
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    DVDragOnIn 15 hr. ago If I were you, I'd keep my dishes and pans in my room, clean, when I'm not using them.
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    Kineth 14 hr. ago Oh there's no way I wouldn't have actually screamed at her and raised h I if she tried to say "but they're your dishes" after using them.
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    Bougiwougibugleboi 13 hr. ago • Put her dirty dishes on her pillow in her bed. Keep doing itmuntil, she gets the message.
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    Classic-Ad-6001 OP 13 hr. ago • I'm worried about my dorm giving me a strike. If she reports me and they side with her I get kicked out. We only get two strikes and I already have one bc some girl chased me around the dorms so I cursed at her and apparently it was my fault bc I used "fighting words" even though she was trying to b t outa me. The whole dorm is run as a mess, and there's only one on campus so I can't afford another strike
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