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    Tenant fakes being sick to gross out roommate and get him to stop eating his food: 'On Sunday he broke and asked me if I always handled food like that'

    Sometimes, the only way to get your roommate to respect your boundaries is to test theirs.

    When you move in with someone, not only do you sign a contractual agreement with your landlord, but you're often agreeing to a nonverbal understanding that both parties will treat one another with respect. 

    Now, respect among roommates comes in many forms. Of course, there is the importance of giving one another a respectable amount of personal space. However, there is also keeping one another informed on visitors, commitments, and relevant logistics that might affect the other person's living experience. And then there's respecting one another's personal belongings by, well, not touching them.

    This roommate could not help himself from eating the author's food repeatedly. Despite several attempts to ask him to purchase and consume his own food, he refused to follow through with his fake promises. This left the author with no other choice but to find alternative methods to keep his roommate from touching his food.

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    • I would not necessarily be this creative with my petty revenge, but I have to hand it to this guy for convincingly faking sick so as to gross his roommate out. How did he pull this off? Outside of decent acting skills, he waltzed into the kitchen and made sure his roommate noticed when he put his grimy hands on all of the food items the roommate seemed to love. 

      My personal favorite of his actions has to be licking his finger and putting it straight in the jar of peanut butter. You can just picture how performative the author was when he did this and how much it probably infuriated his roommate.

       

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    • Roommate keeps drinking my OJ so I teach them a lesson

      Not a complicated story. My old roommate used to eat my food and drinks. Despite having several conversations about boundaries and not being a d, nothing changed.
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    • So I faked being sick for two days over the weekend when he was home. And I drank directly out of the OJ container.
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    • I licked the edge of the pickle jar before putting the top back on when some pickle juice ran over.
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    • I stuck my bare finger in the peanut butter. I used my finger to put cream cheese on a bagel.
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    • A mug of tea, a pair of glasses, and a box of tissues are placed deliberately on a ceramic table.
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    • I made sure he noticed all of it. On Sunday he broke and asked me if I always handled food like that.
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    • I told him I thought it was dumb to dirty utensils when I'm the only one eating my food.
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    • Not only did that end my food being stolen, but he suggested we each have our own drawers and shelves in the fridge to prevent confusion lol
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    • SUN_WU_KONG Instead of hiding gross and potentially harmful stuff in your food and waiting for the unsuspecting thief to eat it, you helped them to make good decisions "on their own". This is next level and I salute you, OP.
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    • Pleasant Bad924 Original Poster's Reply I'm all about educating the less- informed so they can make better decisions lol
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    • LMGooglyTFY And you know he tells people about this gross old roommate he had.
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    • Pleasant Bad924 Original Poster's Reply I hope so lol!
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    • luxafelicity I thought this was going to be a "I put Miralax in it" story, but this is a much better alternative. You're not poisoning anyone and running the risk of getting yourself in trouble in some way, you're just using your own stuff. Brilliant in its simplicity.
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    • Pleasant_Bad924 Original Poster's Reply We'd been living together for about 7-8 weeks when this happened. Since we had 10 more months on the lease I decided mildly poisoning them (while maybe justifiable) was too much too soon lol.
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    • Hempsox >he suggested we each have our own drawers and shelves in the fridge to prevent confusion Roomie gets some bare shelves needing filled and you got exactly what you wanted in the first place. All while playing sick for a weekend in bed. Depending on the roommate, this could have backfired spectacularly.
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    • Pleasant Bad924 Original Poster's Reply I had another roommate years later who would have responded very differently if I did the same thing. I would have come out the next morning to find him balls deep in the cream cheese tub like it was a normal thing to do.
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    • Lexi_Jean Win!
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    • sqqueen2 "When I'm the only one eating my food" precious
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    • CrashBannedicoot Honestly, you're a genius. 10/10 execution.
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    • softdetail years ago, my employee Burt complained that Pedro was always bumming chewing tobacco off him and never reciprocated. Told him. that I'd fix it. so after lunch, I told Pedro that I'd seen the grossest thing ever, Burt puts his chew back in the can before he eats. Pedro pukes over the side of the scaffold, but never asks to bum a chew again.
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