College roommates try to mooch off of man's food for months and throw his groceries in the dumpster as a ‘prank’, man returns the favor and gets their admission on tape

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 6, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Ah, college life. Living with roommates in college will either be the best time of your life or the bane of your existence. When you're rooming randomly, there's always a chance that the folks who seemed cool on Facebook are actually raging weirdos with anger issues. You might even end up with entitled roommates who are Class A moochers who were never told "no" in their lives. Living on mom and dad's money takes all the fun out of college—so these entitled roommates decide to pick on the original poster (OP), who pays his way through school by himself.

The original poster lives with three roommates, two of which are exceptionally entitled. The OP buys and cooks his own food with a tight budget, yet his roommates always insist that he cook for them. After getting badgered by the roommates for a long while, the OP asked them to pay up if he was going to cook them up something good. The fee was a meager $5, a sum that all of the roommates could afford comfortably. After the OP cooks for them, they refuse to pay up. Well, that led to the OP never cooking for them again, and rightfully so.

One fateful day, he comes home from work to see all of his food (as well as his GameCube console) gone. So, the OP hides all of the roommates' electronics, and out of anger, the roommates admit to everything they did. The funny part about that? The OP paid a fella to record the whole thing. Keep scrolling to get the full story.

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    Entitled college roommates were mad I didn't cook for them, and they wanted me to pay for the ingredients. I refused and they threw my stuff in the trash
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    I debated telling this last story after the whole saga with my MIL and ex-wife. But I mentioned it before so many times, that I may as well tell it. But it'll probably be my last post here. I know it seems I dealt with a lot of terrible people in my life. I suppose I was just a magnet for it. My terrible mother, my terrible Ex-Wife, my terrible MIL (Passed away before becoming Ex-MIL), bad coworker that gave out my phone number
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    to my mother, and lastly some bad roommates from my college days. But beyond all that, I haven't really dealt with much anyone else of note. I've got good friends, a good job, and I'm physically active. But there were times I was just drawing in narcissists. Hopefully no more. Back in college I had to deal with three bad roommate guys for six months. It was community college. So no dorm. Just a
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    rundown apartment that looked right out of the 80s. I was balancing school and part time work, so didn't have a lot of money. Funny thing is, I was literally the only one there who knew anything about cooking, much less did dishes. I wasn't one of those couponers. And there was really only two good stores in walking/biking distance. One a typical supermarket, the other a
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    small discount food store. That's where I went the most. I was also no stranger to the local thrift store. My roommates mostly ate junkfood or whatever else they could grab that was already made. So for obvious reasons, | couldn't keep leftovers. We also had fights about them not doing their share of cleaning. But that was resolved later as well. Two of these guys said they were friends before college, and the third
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    roommate fit right right in with them for a while. The drama over the food first started when I made myself an egg sandwich for breakfast. Two eggs over-easy or medium, with your choice of cheese, bread and mayo. It's actually pretty good, and a solid breakfast. One of my roommates saw me eating it, and asked for one too. I apologetically said no, because I was on a tight
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    food budget, and the frying pan was already in the sink. He rolled his eyes at me and groaned. I told him they were easy to make them himself if he bought the ingredients. But he baulked at the notion. Another day I made mashed soft boiled eggs for breakfast. That attracted more attention. It's eggs boiled just enough to where the whites are cooked, but the yoke is still liquid. You then peel the shell off
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    and mash the eggs in a bowl with a fork. It can be easy to mess up, and I only really succeeded half the time. But it's great with just basic seasoning, and sometimes hot sauce. Haven't made it in a while, but I liked to eat it on toast, and sometimes over rice. I also made egg salad from time to time. Eggs were cheap, and basically a dollar a carton at the discount store. I'm also not a big fan of cereal as I had to eat it a
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    lot growing up, and prefer a warm breakfast without a lot of sugar. No matter how much I told my roommates they could cook their own food if they let me show them how, they just kept complaining that I made food that they weren't allowed to eat. Even though they wanted to eat good food at home, they were completely unwilling to put in any effort. Compared to these guys, I
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    was the only broke person there. They all had the latest gaming consoles, and new laptops. One of them even had a car. I had an old N64 and CRT TV that were pity gifts from friends years prior, a Gamecube I'd splurged on, and a used laptop I got secondhand. My roommates were near constantly gaming, watching youtube, and being general couch potatoes when not in class. I think they thought I'd be a
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    pushover at first. But I'm the kind of guy that seems chill, till you push me one step too far. And they did this by stealing my game systems and my food. Here's what happened. One evening I made something good for my dinner. Don't remember specifically what it was. But it might have been tilapia fillets. I ate those a lot. Even made them into spicy fish burgers. My
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    roommates all ganged up on me over how their dinners always sucked unless they ate out. Microwave food all around for them on many nights. And they wanted me to finally make something nice for everybody. I told my roommates that if they each kicked in five bucks, I'd make us all a nice spaghetti dinner the next day. They agreed. My biggest mistake was not collecting the money from them in advance.
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    I went out and got some ground beef, a jar of sauce, a loaf of garlic bread, the noodles, and canned green-beans for a side. I whipped up a great dinner. But when I wanted the money from each of them, they laughed at me and refused. They played what they did off as a joke. When I didn't accept that answer, they told me that they were sick of me flaunting my cooking around them, and never sharing it. I gave
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    them all the finger and told them I'd never cook for them again. And I stuck to that. They tried several more times, and I always refused. They even offered to pay me again. But still refused to pay me for the first time. So I'm sure they would have just pulled the same stunt again. Money or no money, I had my pride. And I meant it when I said I'd never cook for them again. They started acting like kids who's
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    parents wouldn't feed them around me. And were pretty angry when I called them out on it. I wasn't obligated to be their caretaker. I didn't know what kind of homes these guys came from. But they certainly weren't used to not getting their way. One day I came home from work and found all my food missing from the fridge and cupboards. And none of my roommates were
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    home. I was furious, and couldn't even confront them. So I just tried to go play video games to unwind. But my consoles were missing. I lost my mind! I went to see an acquainted neighbor living in one of the apartments down the hall and asked advice from him because he was the one who sold me the Gamecube. He had an evil idea, and said he'd use his digital camera to record my roommates when I confronted
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    them, if I wanted. But only if I paid him $20. I didn't really have a choice but to agree. When my roommates finally came back, they were all smug. Until they realized their gaming consoles and laptops were all missing. They flipped out threatening to kick my • But I held my ground and told them I wanted my stuff back, or I'd never tell them where their stuff
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    was. Turns out they bagged up all up my food and threw it in the dumpster outside a few hours earlier. Then they hid my game systems and TV somewhere in the building before taking off to a party. I asked them why they did that, and they claimed it was because they had been drinking all day since it was a weekend. Then tried to say it was just a stupid drunken joke, while also telling me I'd gone too far. I
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    laughed and said they were enormous hypocrites and to say I went too far after what they did. I just got even. One of them looked like he was ready to hit me, and I drew all their attention to the nearby window. That's when they all saw our neighbor outside the window recording everything with his digital camera. He gave me an ok, and took off down the fire escape before my roommates could do
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    anything. I told them that guy just recorded their entire admission. That was bullying, theft and underage drinking since we were all under 21 at the time. I told them I'd take that recording to the dean if they didn't make things right. Because they wouldn't like having that stuff as part of their records. It was well known a couple of girls had been ousted from the college
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    for roommate bullying the previous year. And drinking while underage is also a huge no-no. They all looked like the color had drained from their faces. I told them I wanted my stuff back now, and the cost of my food reimbursed. It was their move. They all took off outside as fast as they could. They came back with my game systems and games in a garbage bag, and
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    even retrieved my food from the dumpster, and expected me to just take it. But I refused to touch the food because it had been in the garbage for hours, and I would only accept cash. Additionally, they'd dropped my TV, and it was broken. So I wanted that replaced too. They all hemmed and hawed, but finally asked me what I wanted. I said I wanted a new TV, and $60 cash from each of them. They
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    asked why that specific number. I said $50 each to replace my food they tossed, $5 each for the spaghetti dinner that they'd reneged on paying for, and then what remained for having to pay a guy to wait for two hours outside our window in the cold to record them. They all got their wallets out and begrudgingly gave me the money. They had all previously bragged about how they had parents and
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    scholarships footing their bills. So they easily had the cash. After getting paid, I told them where to find their stuff I'd hidden, and they stopped bothering me. One of them had a small flatscreen TV in his stuff, and just gave it to me to replace what they broke. And then we called things even. But after that they avoided speaking to me if at all possible. Though eventually they all started getting on each other's nerves since I'd
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    ruined their fun. They also never brought alcohol into the apartment again, for fear I'd snitch. And they did try to harass the guy I'd paid to record them. He said he'd take the recording to the dean himself if they bothered him again. So they were SOL to do anything about the situation. When the lease renewal came, two of the roommates opted to
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    move out of the building because they and the third guy now hated each other. Yeah they all hated me. But the two that left were especially the worst. But they liked each other just fine. Didn't bother to keep tabs on them once they were out. And the few classes we had together, they kept away from me in. And the one roommate that stayed, actually made some improvement as a person, and made sure to tell
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    the new guys who moved in, not to mess with me at all. One of them was pretty cool though. And he actually liked cooking simple home meals like I did. And he also liked Nintendo and bikes. He became my best friend, and still is to this day. We even still play Mario Kart together when we can, and took up cycling together again once I separated from my ex-wife. He's been my greatest support ever. More so than any family I've ever had.
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    Also, for those wondering where I'd hidden my roommates' stuff. I hid them all in their own suitcases that were already put away in the closet. Which would have been one of the last places they'd have looked. They were all so it was all right there the whole time.
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