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Living with someone rarely goes smoothly when two people share nothing in common, but this story takes that mismatch to an extreme.
One man agreed to let a struggling friend move in as his roommate after their temporary living situation ended, only to regret it almost immediately due to constant mess, missed rent payments, and a total lack of communication.
But instead of addressing the frustration honestly, he invented a lie about his family visiting to push his roommate out, then extended that lie further when the roommate didn’t move fast enough.
Things came to a head on a rainy night, when he locked the door and left his roommate outside, ringing the bell while their mutual friends slept just steps away, completely unaware.
Read on — Reddit had a thing or two to say about this one.
Was I wrong for kicking out my roommate this way?
The story started while we were temporarily sharing a house. We were 5. Three found their own places, I found mine too, and one remained without a place.
I told him, “You can be my roommate,” and he said yes, but it was the worst decision ever.
He soon came to regret his decision.
He was dirty, with no wardrobe or whatsoever, all his clothes were on the floor.
We shared nothing in common. We couldn’t even find time to go for coffee or study, and he skipped uni all the time.
He never told me when he wasn’t planning to sleep at home, and sometimes he even left the doors open.
He gives more examples of the roommate’s sloppiness.
He didn’t participate in paying for the cleaning lady (later I told her not to go into his dirty room).
He was always late with rent and electricity, and I had to remind him all the time.
He left fish from McDonald’s on the sofa over the weekend (who eats this anyway? I would have forgiven him if it was a Big Mac).
So he started to contemplate the best way out of this situation.
So I told him my family was coming (as a lie). He said he would sleep at our friends’ house and come back. I said they were coming for a long time because he kept being lazy, saying he forgot or slept through appointments to go to the real estate agency. (I think I should have been honest here.)
That’s when he saw an opportunity and took it.
I had no option but to lock the door on him on a rainy night while he was out late with our friends. I thought he might stay there anyway. He came back and kept ringing, but I didn’t open.
He went back to sleep with our group of friends, and then I told him I was sleeping.
The roommate soon confronts him about it, and the rest of their social circle takes sides.
The next day, he came to collect his things and said, “Thanks for everything.”
Now our group of friends are mad at me and don’t want to talk to me. They think I was wrong.
AITA?
Sounds like he might have had the right idea, but the wrong execution.
What did Reddit think?
This commenter thinks this renter crossed a line.
The roommate’s behavior was bad, but his was worse.
Many roommates aren’t the best of friends — that’s just the reality.
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The ends didn’t justify the means in this commenter’s eyes.
Having a messy, unreliable roommate is a legitimate complaint. But how this renter handled things just crossed a major line.
A direct conversation about the living situation would’ve resolved things without anyone needing to fabricate some elaborate story.
Annoying roommate habits are one thing, but deceiving someone into a rainy night outside is a much bigger problem than dirty laundry ever was.