Nobody likes a food thief…
Especially if that thief happens to be a roommate!
Ouch!
Was this guy wrong for what he did after his milk kept getting stolen from him?
Read his story below and see what you think.
AITA for switching to regular milk to prove my lactose intolerant roommate keeps stealing from me?
“Me and 2 other guys share an apartment together and we split all the bills. The only thing we don’t split costs on is groceries.
Everyone’s in charge of buying their own food and we don’t touch whatever doesn’t belong to us in the fridge. We put our names on everything so no one gets mixed up.
This issue has been going on almost a year and I’m sick of it.
They’re tired of what’s going on…
One of my roommates, R, keeps stealing my food. I get home from work and containers with my leftovers are sometimes missing (they have my name written on it), or my stuff finishes too quick. My gallon of milk for example. I buy almond milk because I like the taste. But it seems to finish after a week even though I’ve only drank once or twice.
I confronted R about this lots of times and that’s caused a lot of arguments. He outright denies it and tells me I’m crazy even though it’s so obvious.
They know who’s responsible…
My other roommate and I car pool together because we both work the same early morning shifts around the same area so I know it’s not him. It’s always after we get back home and R’s already left for work that I notice my food’s gone. My roommate’s also had a similar problem but not as often as I do. I’m guessing cause R doesn’t like what he buys.
The funny thing is R buys a lot for himself and is even more stingy about his food. He will literally point out what’s his when he comes back from grocery shopping and tells us not to touch it.
Last week, my milk was nearly empty again and I got fed up. I went to the liquor store and bought regular dairy milk. I drank what was left of my almond milk and refilled the gallon with the one I bought. This was to catch/prove R is the one stealing since he’s lactose intolerant.
Let’s see how this goes…
The next day, Saturday, we get back from work and R is mad. He yelled at me that he was stuck in the bathroom for 40 mins with diarrhea because of my milk; he was using it to make a shake. I only responded with “So then you’re the one who’s been stealing?”
That didn’t go over very well…
He freaking exploded. Yeah he admitted he was “sometimes” drinking my milk and eating my food but he was more mad that I switched milks than the fact that he was caught. I told him I wouldn’t have done that if he’d just stopped taking my stuff from the fridge or at least told the truth instead of tryna make it seem like I was making it up.
My roommate backed me up and thought it was kinda funny he got payback for stealing from us. It’s a little tense rn and my roommate told me R is trying to convince him to agree to kick me out. Little does he know we’re both looking to move somewhere else together cause we are sick of his ****.
I told some buddies what happened and a few think I was an asshole for that. I feel like I’m not in the wrong here. He was taking my food and not even owning up to it and I wanted to prove it, does that make me an *******?”
And here’s what people had to say.
This person made an interesting comparison…
One Reddit user said they’re NTA.
Another person had their own story to share…
This Reddit user shared an interesting story.
And one person said it loud and clear: NTA!
Have fun on the toilet!
A very satisfying revenge, for sure!
Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were travelling for business.