Entitled 25-year-old "Alex" eats roommate's entire birthday cake, roommate gets even by selling his $800 gaming chair: 'I feel it is justice served'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 20, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

It's inconsiderate when a roommate finishes your food without permission. It's far more serious when they eat something as special and meaningful as your birthday cake against your wishes. No, we're not just talking about a slice. We're talking about the whole thing.

When you first move in with someone, both parties tend to establish guidelines and expectations, even if it's just verbally. Each roommate is particular and sensitive to certain phenomena. Some care about ensuring that the sink is not full of dirty dishes by the end of the night. Others care more about an equitable distribution of space in shared rooms. However, regardless of how thorough you are, there are always some circumstances you cannot foresee when it comes to potential roommate drama. Sure, you can try to anticipate disagreements all you want, but there will always be some sources of conflict that are so peculiar and unpredictable that there is nothing you can do to prepare for them.

In this instance, this author had a roommate who consistently ate bits and pieces of their food when the author wasn't looking. They had discussed this numerous times. However, the author could never have guessed that the roommate would go so far as to eat their entire birthday cake in one sitting before the author even got a slice of her own. That kind of behavior is so outrageous that not even the previous occurrences could have been considered proven signs that he would be that selfish.

Thankfully, the author was not going to let it slide. She decided that she couldn't get even by eating some of his food. After all, it doesn't seem like this guy is the type of roommate who even has food of his own. So she went back to the drawing board and brainstormed better ways to hit him where it would really hurt.

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

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  • Sometimes, you have to think outside the box when it comes to petty revenge. In this case, that box happened to be loosely related to X-box. “Alex” may not have had food in the cupboard that the author could eat, but he did have an $800 gaming chair that was very precious and special to him. Imagine his surprise when he came home one day to find out that it had seemingly disappeared into thin air.

  • 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. Someone purchased it in under two hours. He still has no idea who purchased it.
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  • I (24F) cohabitate with my roommate, and we can call him Alex (25M). 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. Not a "I had one spoonful of your peanut butter" kind of deal, but consuming leftover food that was not his.
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  • My mother sent me a custom birthday cake at the end of last month. This wasn't just your average cake; she had gone out to this cake company in my hometown that does all these fancy designs. 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. Box in trash. Crumbs on the counter. Alex is on the sofa with a guilty expression.
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  • He replies, "Sorry, I had the munchies, I'll Venmo you." Um. bro. You can't Venmo me back your mom's love and labor delivered in a chilled box.
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  • So I made a plan. Alex has this fancy $800 gaming chair he is always boasting about, ergonomic, lumbar support, "life-changing," etc. 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 I knew, within a couple of hours, this guy in a pickup truck pulled up and swiped it.
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  • Alex returns home, notices a space in the room, and freaks out. 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. 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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  • Researcher-52 19h ago • Should have sold it for the amount needed to make you another birthday cake. But you need to tell him you sold it.
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  • Bubbly_Cucumber_612 17h ago That you even call this being friends with... he sounds like an absolute sh head ignoring any kind of your private stuff. It literally says do not eat. Saying, he had munchies, is just a stupid excuse. Eat some of your food. It you at two poor to get nice stuff, get some work and buy nice stuff. Absolute a h le being called a friend? Would not even want to live with him under the same roof.
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  • DissensionIntoChaos 17h ago So, someone did a sl thing and you got revenge by doing an even s er thing? On top of that an $800 chair is...well significantly more than the cost of that cake. Do yourselves both a favor and just move out but after covering a month and a half's worth rent because I'm sure that's was $800 would cover.
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  • No_Muffin_1121 • 17h ago Why not just let him Venmo you and reorder the same cake?? | don't feel like him eating your desert is equivalent at all to stealing his furniture and selling it, like that's actually illegal and he would be in the right if he presses charges.
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  • Minute-Telephone7125 13h ago. You should have left a small pile of cake crumbs where the chair sat.
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  • Far_Butterscotch_646 · 17h ago I like it! Personally, I find the best revenge is often a random act, completely divorced from the original misdemeanor, which leaves the recipients head warped and looking for some answer that is, of course, not coming.
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  • keeganleach • 16h ago . Make a cake next time and tell him it is from your mom for him. Put exlax in it. That will teach him to not eat any of your food next time.
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