College student tells roommate's mom to back off after she rearranges her furniture and decorates her room without her permission: "What makes you think you can touch my stuff?"

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    My roommate's mom tried to unpack my stuff and rearrange my room like it was her house

    "10 minutes in, she's in my room, opening boxes, moving my books..."
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    So I just moved into a new place with a couple roommates, and one of them has this super intense mom. Like, she's one of those "I'm just helping :)" types who actually steamrolls over boundaries.
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    Anyway, I'm barely a day into moving my stuff in, literally have unopened boxes still, and she comes over to "see the new place." 10 minutes in, she's in my room, opening boxes, moving my books, trying to hang up some weird floral curtain she brought "because the window looked bare."
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    I'm like "Hey, thanks but I'll handle my room," and she hits me with "Oh, don't worry, I've decorated plenty of homes I know what I'm doing!"
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    Ma'am. This is a rented college house. You don't live here. I don't even know you. What makes you think you can touch my stuff??
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    Roommate just laughed it off and said, "Haha, yeah she's like that." No, that's not quirky. That's entitled
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    Is this just "helpful mom energy" or is she completely outta line? Would you have said something or just let it slide?
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    Actual-Excitement975 Nope, totally out of line! The fact you don't even know her makes it way weirder as well
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    floofienewfie Get a lock for your bedroom door. Guaranteed she has a key for the house. Edit-fixed a word.
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    CoffeeChocolateBoth Yep! She'll be over cleaning things up, which is fine as long as she's not cleaning OP's room. I bet she cleans her daughters room, fixes them food, does the dishes, rearranges everything!
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    Parsleysage58 No, it's really not fine in common areas either. That pushy b I will be cleaning out the refrigerator without knowing or caring whose food it is. Then maybe she'll pack it with her
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    preferred things or things she's "sure" her kid wants or should have. She'll remove decorations, small appliances, toiletries, or whatever doesn't suit her, and yeah, rearrange everything including the furniture. Shut it down now, OP. You already know her kid isn't going to.
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    SectionSquare9815 She's establishing precedent for being inappropriately intrusive immediately upon entering her kid's shared home. That's deliberate.
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    It needs to be shut down immediately, and hard. And you're going to have to do it, because her son has been conditioned to accept it.
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    This isn't her dollhouse. It's your home. And if you tell her that your room and your things are off limits, then she can respect it or her son can find another place to live. As a matter of fact, just assume everything that isn't his is off limits
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    phdoofus "Ha ha yeah I'm not like that and if she's in my room again I'm gonna drop kick her bt in to the living room because I'm like that"
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    LillyNana Award! I've been itching for someone to realize the answer to 'they're just like that' is 'Well, I'm not!!'
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    sallystruthers69 That's when you start taking down everything she's doing right in front of her after she finishes it. Tell her sternly no thank you.
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    2cents0fucks "She's like that" because people enable her. Hope you have a lock for your door, since your roommate clearly rug sweeps her mom's overstepping, that woman will probably be a regular.
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    If your roommate complains about you getting a lock, just laugh and tell her, "Oh, don't mind me, I'm just like that."
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    JECfromMC Swat her on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and say, "No! Bad girl! Crate!"
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    Hemiak My first roommate (a long time high school friend)'s mom was Like this. I came home once and she was walking out of my room with my dirty clothes and I told her to stop. "It's ok I'm happy to do it. "I
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    Luckily I knew her pretty well and I just said "No. I've been washing my own clothes since I was 12. Please don't touch my stuff, and I'd appreciate you not entering my room again."
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    She was kind of taken aback, but she agreed, though she would come do his dishes/clothes, and clean the rest of the apartment semi regularly.

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