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.