Woman cuts Wifi after getting kicked out so entitled roommate's best friend can move in: 'I guess karma really does exist'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 25, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

It's difficult to avoid getting petty when you're leaving on bad terms with a roommate.

Believe me, I have been there. You want to stuff the curtain rods with prawns. You want to sabotage their AC. You want to do all the things to make this person know they should never have tried to mess with you. That being said, the mature grown adult within you stops you from doing anything unforgivable. Instead, we just move on and peacefully coexist with your soon-to-be ex-roommate despite the urge to enact petty revenge. Ok, well, that's what happened in my case.

In this Redditor's case, she very much got her petty payback. Right as her roommate was approaching law school exam preparation, she changed the Wifi password without telling her former friend. You can imagine how stressed that would make an already anxious law student, but based on her unfeeling behavior toward the Redditor, it's quite clear that this roommate deserved it. As they say, the punishment fits the crime.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more tales of petty revenge, check out this post about this grandpa's payback on an entitled neighbor.

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  • 01
    "My roommate kicked me out so her best friend could take my room" H wehkamp.nl DOG
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  • 02
    Changed the WiFi password cause my roommate kicked me out so her best friend could take my room
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 03
    I (23f), was living with my roommate (also 23f) for the past year. A few things to know for context:
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 04
    She's been overseas since March, and I was looking after her cat while she's overseas and she won't be back until late July.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 05
    We have known each other since high school where her best friend also went to school with us. Roommate and I were on the same soccer team for 6 years and I considered them both my friends.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 06
    Her parents own the 3-bedroom unit, 3rd broom is used as an office cause it's tiny.
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  • 07
    I asked her before she left if she wanted me to clean her room while she was gone - vacuuming, dusting blinds, etc. but she declined and said to just keep her door closed so the cat doesn't throw up on the carpet.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 08
    I'll refer to roommate as Rachel and her best friend as Cassie. In May she sent me a text, informing me that Cassie's mum was renting out their (Cassie's family's) house so she would need my room and I'll "need to move out". She gave me a deadline of July as that's when they get back from a music festival.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 09
    Next day, I get another text from Rachel, telling me that Cassie found black mould in Rachel's room when she came over to clean Rachel's sheets and asked me to clean the mould. I refused cause it should be incredibly obvious how dangerous that is. 1
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 10
    All of this made me incredibly angry and even more betrayed that she would discard me so easily without a second thought and still had the nerve to ask me to keep cat sitting for her AND clean the mould out of her room (which could've been avoided).
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 11
    She also conveniently sent me the power bill for the last quarter that just happened to end at the end of June but managed to overcalculate what I owed by $100 because she didn't factor in her share of the connection fee.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 12
    Her cat also pd on one of my armchairs I inherited from my mother that are very precious to me. I sent her a message about getting them cleaned and I've been left on read ever since. I did everything I could to protect those chairs, I put sheets on them so if he jumped on them,
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 13
    the hair wouldn't be all over them. I stuck cardboard along the entire sides of them so he couldn't use them as a scratching post. I thought they were safe until I was moving my stuff out and noticed there was cat hair on both of them and a big stain accompanied by a word smell on one that was not there before before.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 14
    I began thinking of ways to cause a mild inconvenience to her (I refused to break anything or hurt the cat). My mum came up with the classic, prawns in the curtain rods but we have no curtains. My friend said I should take the cover off the wall mounted AC
    via u/UnsafeTuna
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    and put those dod mice from pet stores people use to feed snakes inside. Alternatively he said to put brake cleaner on the fan of the AC so it would slowly break down over time, but I didn't want to risk the parents figuring out it was me because of the timing of it breaking. She's not good with tech, so I opted to change the Wi-Fi password on her as it would disconnect all devices previously connected and
    via u/UnsafeTuna
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    then she wouldn't know the password to get back in. I then ripped the sticker with the password off the router so she couldn't use the QR code to scan back in and I changed just the first letter to have a capital so it wouldn't seem too far fetched that she was just typing it wrong.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 17
    She's in the midst of a law degree so a part of me feels bad if she potentially fails any classes, but at the same time she had no care for me so why should I care about her classes when her parents pay for her degree anyway? So if she reads this cause someone shows her, pay for the cleaning fee for the armchairs or I'll lawyer up.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
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    Edit: to those who're wondering, I left on the 23rd of June, gave her 3 weeks notice. She sent me a message saying she only left because she assumed I'd be there to look after her cat until she got back and that I needed to help her find someone else to look after the cat. She ended up getting her older brother to stay in the apartment to look after the cat.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 19
    UnsafeTuna OP. Her cat also took a s☐ on her bed the day before I left so I guess karma really does exist
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 20
    - Independent-Self-854. You're kicked out and still being assigned chores? Those chicks have b, I'll give them that.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 21
    ScapeGoatOfWar If it makes you feel any better, becoming roommates with (best) friends is rarely a good idea. Their friendship will be over within the year. I guarantee it.
    via u/UnsafeTuna
  • 22
    UnsafeTuna OP. Well the friend came by about a week ago to come pick up roommate's snowboards (she's meeting up with roommate overseas) and said because of the mould she's rethinking living there. So now she's short a roommate too!
    via u/UnsafeTuna

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