There’s nothing worse than a roommate who doesn’t respect your boundaries.

So, what would you do if your roommate kept taking your food even after you asked them to stop? Would you keep asking? Or would you finally blow up and say something that hurts their feelings?

In the following story, one roommate finds himself in this situation and ends up choosing the latter. Here’s how it went down.

AITA for not letting my roommate take my food?

I (20) have been sharing a college apartment with a friend of a friend (19) for a couple of months now, and recently, a problem has arisen where they will not stop taking my food.

It doesn’t matter what it is – they will take it. They’ve taken my meal prep, they’ve taken ingredients, and they’ve even drunk all my protein shakes. I keep telling them to stop, I’ve even tried buying a mini fridge, but they will just go into my room.

They say that it’s not fair because they don’t have a scholarship like I do, and their parents don’t send them very much money for groceries. They have a meal plan, but for some reason are still insistent that they are starving.

Then, he dealt them a low blow.

I go to the gym, and I’m very health-conscious, so I like to meal prep for the week, but they keep taking it and throwing off my meal plan.

We got into a blow-up argument about it this week, and they made a comment about how I make so much food there’s no reason why I can’t share some of it, and this is where I might be wrong. I told them that maybe they should worry less about eating and worry more about hitting the gym.

They are overweight, and I know they are insecure about it, but I was just so fed up with all my food being stolen. I don’t make a lot at my part time job so I can’t keep affording to buy two sets of groceries.

AITA?

Wow! That was pretty mean, but it’s understandable why he said it.

Let’s see how the readers over at Reddit feel about what’s going on.

This person suggests reporting him.

Here’s someone who agrees with him.

According to this comment, the roommate is a mooch.

For this reader, the roommate is a bit odd in his thinking.

That’s not his problem because it’s not his responsibility to feed his roommate.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.