30-something-year-old gamer stays up all night raging at her game, driving her roommate insane: 'I don’t know what came over me. I opened the container, grabbed the salt, poured a ton of it over her corned beef.'

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Christiana Maimone • Freelance Writer
Jul 17, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Sleep is precious, and when we're not getting our eight hours in, we can get cranky fast. With roommates, adequate sleep can be challenging when you're living with the wrong people. It's common courtesy to be quiet when others in the household are sleeping, but some people simply lack self-awareness and consideration for others. When a woman refuses to keep her late-night gaming to a minimum, her poor, sleepless roommate decides she's had enough. 

Today's tale of petty roommate revenge involves a woman living with – not one, but four other women, one of them being a gamer who stays up all night playing and shouting. The worst part is that this noisy roommate is almost forty years old, a grown adult screaming at a video game all night. The narrator (and ticked off roommate) realizes that if the noise isn't going to stop, she's going to annoy her loud roommate by any means necessary, like messing with her lunch. Moral of this story: Keep the noise and at a low volume, and try not to make your roommates too salty... 

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    My noisy roommate ruined my sleep, so I ruined her lunch.

    A few years ago, I lived in a shared flat with four other women, each of us in separate rooms. The woman who just rented the room next to mine was in her late 30s.
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    Almost every night, until the early hours of the morning, I could hear her playing Mobile Legends on her phone very loudly. The
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    on her phone very loudly. The game's noises and sound effects would pierce through the walls. I think she was also on a call with her teammates because I'd always hear her shouting like a kid. (For
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    hear her shouting like a kid. (For context, I don't play mobile games, so I didn't really know how it works.) Whenever she lost (which was obvious because she'd get super ped), she'd scream
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    get super ped), she'd scream profanities nonstop and sometimes even hit the wall between our rooms. It would shake the wall, and of course, I'd
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    shake the wall, and of course, I'd be rattled by the sudden noise and vibration as I lay in bed. I honestly couldn't believe a woman nearing 40 could act like that over a game. It was so
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    that over a game. It was so immature and inconsiderate. We all worked in the mornings, but she would stay up super late, playing and screaming at her phone.
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    One night, I got so annoyed because I couldn't sleep again from all the noise. I went to the kitchen to grab something to eat
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    or drink to calm down, and lo and behold, I saw the food she had prepared earlier that evening. It was corned beef, packed for her breakfast or lunch at work the next day. I don't know what came
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    breakfast or lunch at work the next day. I don't know what came over me. I opened the container, grabbed the salt, poured a ton of it over her corned beef. Like a lot.
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    Almost emptied the salt shaker. Mixed it in so it wouldn't be obvious, and went back to bed.
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    I wonder if she ended up having to buy another lunch at work the next day. She never confronted any of us about it, and I would've
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    any of us about it, and I would've denied it anyway. I moved out a couple of months later and never saw her again. Good riddance!
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    Edit: Yes, she was informed many times of her loud gaming and was even told by the landlord. She did not stop. Anyway, that's my petty revenge story.
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  • The commenters had some other clever ideas for petty revenge. Personally, I'd turn on the vacuum during their sleep hours, or maybe make myself a delicious smoothie with the blender while they try to nap. Changing the Wi-Fi password could also be fun, but I wouldn't necessarily want to be maimed by my raging gamer roommate. 

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    MikeSchwab63 The real cure to a noise situation is to record it then play it back.
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    bumbumDbum An easy revenge is to reboot the router.
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    purpleninja2222 Great! I would have done the same.
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