Roommate Alex eats an entire custom birthday cake despite warnings, his flatmate gets payback selling his $800 gaming chair on Facebook Marketplace for $50: ‘Alex returns home, notices a space in the room, and freaks out’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 24, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Roommates are basically a social experiment designed to test how much human selfishness can be tolerated before someone snaps. In this case, the snapping point was a birthday cake. Not just any cake either, but the kind your mom spends time and money making special, the kind that shows up with edible flowers and fondant like it comes prepackaged with parental love. Our guy Alex ignored the post-it, inhaled the whole thing in one sitting, tossed the box, and shrugged it off with "I had the munchies, I'll Venmo you." Because yes, nothing says "sorry I ate your mom's affection" like twelve bucks in digital credits.  

Enter the revenge arc. Alex has an eight hundred dollar gaming chair, the throne upon which he wastes most of his life achieving absolutely nothing except carpal tunnel. While he was away, his roommate snapped photos of the chair and listed it on Facebook Marketplace for fifty bucks.

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  • My roommate ate my birthday cake, and I donated his $800 gaming chair

    gaming room with PC, monitor, headphones and a high end gaming chair. along with a quote that reads: "Alex has this fancy $800 gaming chair, posted it on Facebook Marketplace for pickup only for $50"
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  • This is the beauty of petty justice. The guy who mocks post-it notes lost his beloved command center to a dad in a Dodge Ram. The cake is gone, but the fridge is safe. Moral of the story: steal carbs, lose your lumbar. Justice is sometimes best served on Facebook Marketplace.

  • Names altered for confidentiality. TL;DR: My roommate consumed the whole birthday cake my mom sent me in one night, so I put his pricey gaming chair up on Facebook Marketplace when he was in class.
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  • Someone purchased it in under two hours. He still has no idea who purchased it. I (24F) cohabitate with my roommate, and we can call him Alex (25M).
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  • We've been friends since freshman year and are now apartment-mates. He's generally a nice guy, but he has the awful habit of finishing my food.
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  • Not a "I had one spoonful of your peanut butter" kind of deal, but consuming leftover food that was not his. My mother sent me a custom birthday cake at the end of last month.
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  • This wasn't just your average cake; she had gone out to this cake company in my hometown that does all these fancy designs.
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  • It had edible flowers, fondant work, and my favorite flavors piled on top. it was the epitome of "don't touch unless your name is on it."
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  • I left it in the fridge, left the post-it note that said "DO NOT EAT." Went out with friends. Returned home. Cake? Vanished. Whole thing.
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  • Someone bit instantly, hauled it off, and boom, the crime scene was spotless. When Alex returned, his melodrama was priceless. Maybe the landlord stole it? Maybe maintenance needed ergonomic lumbar support? Certainly not his quiet roommate sipping water in the corner.  

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  • Box in trash. Crumbs on the counter. Alex is on the sofa with a guilty expression. He replies, "Sorry, I had the munchies, I'll Venmo you."
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  • Um. bro. You can't Venmo me back your mom's love and labor delivered in a chilled box. So I made a plan.
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  • Alex has this fancy $800 gaming chair he is always boasting about, ergonomic, lumbar support, "life- changing," etc.
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  • I took pictures of it when he left for class the next day, posted it on Facebook Marketplace for pickup only for $50, and the next thing knew,
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  • within a couple of hours, this guy in a pickup truck pulled up and swiped it. Alex returns home, notices a space in the room, and freaks out.
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  • Blamed the landlord, assumed maybe someone on maintenance had taken it, and even complained at the apartment office. I just sat there with eyes wide like "wow, that's nuts, man."
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  • He still doesn't know what happened. I explained it to my mother, and she laughed uncontrollably and wept.
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  • Am I guilty? Perhaps. But every time I head over to the fridge to open it, and there it is, my food waiting, I feel it is justice served.
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