He Asked His Neighbor If She’d Cook For Him If He Paid Her, But She Told Him There’s No Way That’s Going To Happen
by Matthew Gilligan
Would you ask someone who’s pretty much a stranger to make you some food out of the blue?
Yeah, it’s kinda weird, right?
Well, at least I thought it was!
But now it’s your turn to check out this Reddit story to see if you think this guy did anything wrong.
Start now!
AITA for asking a neighbor if she wanted to share food?
“I’m a 31 year old single guy who lives alone in an apartment complex.
I’ve lived there for 6 years. My neighbor across the hall, a woman around my age or a little younger (I actually don’t know her first name but I’ll call her Katie) lives across the hall from me diagonally and has for about 2 years. We exchange hellos but aren’t friendly, which is how it is with most of my neighbors.
He’s in a bit of a pickle…
So I don’t know how to cook, and due to losing one of my part time gigs, I don’t have as much money for takeout anymore. I’m getting really sick of eating cheap fast food or box mac and cheese. I’m gaining weight and I never feel great.
This is where Katie comes in. I can always smell her cooking in the hall and it always smells amazing (I know it isn’t the other person at our end of our hall cause it’s a single old man). I’ve even complimented it a few times.
So I got the idea that I’d offer to give her some money each week to cook a little extra and bring it over to me (or I can pick it up from her!) at night. She’s cooking anyway and then I’d have varied presumably delicious food.
That didn’t go well…
I asked her the next time I saw her and she looked surprised and said she couldn’t because she was too busy (which didn’t make sense cause she cooks almost every day but okay).
The next time I saw her a few days later, I asked her if she was sure and upped the amount I was offering, and she said she was sure and that it was rude to ask me, and that she isn’t a housekeeper for hire and I should get a housekeeper if that’s what I want.
She also called me ‘a stranger’ even though we have talked in the halls before.
He’s bummed out about this.
Overall she made me feel like a big jerk and really embarrassed for even asking her, and a little mad because she was acting like I was being creepy (I wasn’t, trust me, she isn’t my type).
I think asking her to split cooking wasn’t completely outlandish, since she cooks every day anyway and it wouldn’t be hard to make a little more.
So, AITA?”
Let’s see what people said on Reddit.
This reader said he’s an *******.
Another Reddit user brought up a good point.
This individual shared their thoughts.
One person also said he’s an *******.
And this woman nailed it.
Dude, learn to cook…
For real…
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