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The smallest household routines can carry surprising meaning, especially when someone else quietly takes them over.

Is it ungrateful to decline help when that help removes a favorite part of your day?

How would you feel?

After months of unsolicited feeding, this dog owner wants his roommate to wait thirty extra minutes.

Read on how this request went ignored.

AITA for asking my roommate to stop feeding my dog just before I get home from work?

I (27M) have a 5-year-old dog.

In the past, if I’ve known I’m going to be out later, I will ask my roommate (25M) to feed the dog.

Lately, 3 months later, he’s been kinda taking over the evening feeding of my dog without asking.

He leaves a note on the fridge.

This man would come home to his dog, who was already fed by his roommate.

I normally get home around 5:45, and the roommate feeds him around 5:15, I think.

My dog now, I think, demands my roommate for food because he’s always home (unemployed).

I understand he does me a solid by feeding him.

But I also have it as one of my favorite parts of coming home to do it.

But he wants his roommate to stop doing it already.

Please keep in mind he does nothing else for the dog, nor do I ask him to either.

I don’t know if it’s other things bothering me around the house.

But ideally, I just want to ask him to stop feeding the dog unless I ask.

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Another sensible insight.

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Finally, short and simple.

The roommate probably means well, but this dog owner can reasonably control the feeding schedule and preserve a routine he enjoys.

A friendly, direct request should resolve everything without turning a thoughtful favor into a household feud.

The dog discovered complimentary room service and wisely encouraged the arrangement.

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Chris Allen