Entitled roommate burns tenant's frozen pizza, tenant gets even by cranking the oven to 500 degrees: 'I matched his energy'

Petty roommate behavior is often inevitable, but these two guys were quite literally playing with fire.

It all started when this author was heating up a frozen pizza at 375 degrees at 10:00 PM on a weeknight. At the time, the author was living in a shared student apartment with total strangers. It wasn't an ideal situation, but it was affordable for a graduate student. The author had formed a cordial but largely distant relationship with the other folks living in the apartment, but this one roommate was starting to become a problem.

But back to the pizza… the author had set an alarm to check on it when it was ready. While he was in his room, the problematic roommate decided to throw his chicken dinner in there while increasing the temperature dramatically without informing the author. By the time the author's alarm went off, he discovered what happened. His pizza was so burnt that it was barely edible.

But the problematic roommate made an egregious mistake when he selfishly decided to crank up the oven temperature. His chicken still had a way to go before it was ready, which left the author with the perfect opportunity to enact some petty payback.

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  • It cannot be overstated that we do not condone this behavior. Any time a plan of vengeance might end up setting off a smoke alarm… well, it just might not be worth the trouble or the risk. Still, the author was able to give his roommate a burnt taste of his own medicine. Now, both students had to eat their barely edible meals since they couldn't exactly afford a different option.

  • "Roommate burned my food, so I matched his energy"

    Years ago I decided to go back to school for a career pivot. I had to keep expenses low so I moved into a sort of shared student apartment in the basement of an old apartment building.
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  • We each had our own locked rooms along a hallway, but had a shared kitchen/bathrooms. No one really socialized beyond reminders to e- transfer for the shared internet.
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  • One night I got home from classes and work around 10 PM and decided to make myself a frozen pizza. Cash was tight so it was a bit of a luxury food item for me. I popped it in the oven at
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  • like 375, set an alarm and went back in my room to wait the 25ish minutes recommended by the packaging. About halfway through the cook time I heard the oven door open, as it was old and always made a loud noise. A few
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  • seconds after I heard one of the other students closing their bedroom door. I went to check the oven and saw that someone had put a big tray of chicken br in the oven too. I thought nothing of it, and went back to my room until the timer was done.
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  • When I went out there to pull out my pizza it was mostly burnt. The f had put his stuff in the oven and r cranked it up to 425 without telling me.
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  • Fine, put your sh in the oven, but don't change the cook temp without saying anything. To me that is a huge Imove. The pizza was just burnt enough to be terrible, but I still had to eat it. After fuming internally for a minute or two, and having a minor
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  • existential crisis about how pitiful my life is, I went back to the kitchen area in a rage and cranked the oven up to 500 with his chicken still in there. After a bit I heard the smoke alarm going off,
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  • and shortly after someone swearing. I stepped out into the darkened hallway and, in a slightly ominous tone, said "everything all good bud?". He
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  • stammered something about being fine, and was trying to scrape the charred chicken off the baking sheet. I went back into my room and ate the rest of my terrible pizza. I moved out not long after that. F your chicken.
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