18-year-old college student eats food accidentally delivered to their dorm, then the original orderer demands they pay them $40 in reimbursements: 'I didn't want to throw it away and I'm hungry'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 25, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

Do you abide by the 24-hour leftovers rule at your house? 

Leftovers, if left unattended, are fair game after a certain amount of time. Food has a natural expiration date on it and, if you're like me, you grew up in a family that didn't waste food or throw it away until it was growing a ptetri dish of mold spores or smelled like a rotting mess. Food is meant to be eaten, not wasted. 

A college student knows that lesson better than anyone, especially when they're living on their own for the first time and spending money on exorbitant groceries like a real-life adult. Adulting is hard that way, one minute you're eating out of your mom and dad's fridge, and the next you're counting quarters in the Vons line and taking that avocado out of the conveyor belt to stay under your grocery budget. In that kind of household, food absolutely 100% cannot go to waste. 

This 18-year-old was learning about life the hard way, and as if by magic, one evening, a DoorDash order was mistakenly dropped off on their doorstep. After being visited by the food delivery fairy, this college student posted all over local neighborhood chatrooms, hoping to find the original orderer of the food, but as the chalupa smell wafted through their house, their strength wavered. 

Hunger churned in their belly as the hours passed, and after hours without someone claiming their meal, they decided to take control. Don't waste food, right? Especially when it falls out of the sky with no apparent owner. Well, this logic came back to bite them, almost as eagerly as they bit into that cheesy bean burrito. 

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