‘I woke up to find her stuff gone, she left me with the full rent due in three days’: Roommate stops paying rent and disappears overnight, stealing shared belongings after 24-year-old refuses to cover for her a second time

Most roommate rants are the stuff of urban legend: wild tales of shared bathrooms slowly turning into biohazards, heated debates over what exactly counts as "quiet hours," and the crisis triggered by discovering just how many decibels a single bowl of cereal can produce at 2 AM. These complaints aren't just cliché—they're an ancient rite of passage, a way for adults to process the unavoidable truth that nobody on earth would choose to have a roommate if rent weren't more terrifying than the roommate themselves. Let's face it: deep down, everyone just wants (or rather, is brutally forced by their bank account) to have another human around to halve the pain of paying for shelter.

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