She Locked All Of The Kitchen Cabinets In Her Dorm Room In An Effort To Get Her Roommate To Stop Stealing Her Food
Living with roommates in college rarely works out to be seamless and incident-free. Anytime you have multiple people under one dorm room roof, things are bound to get strained and everyone is sure to stop agreeing on everything at some point in time.
A 20-year-old woman currently lives with 2 female roommates in an on-campus apartment, and it wasn’t long until she started having trouble with one of them.
Her roommates are named Lucy and Mary, and she did not really know these girls prior to living with them at all.
Right after they began living together in the dorms, Lucy pointed out that she would just be there for 3 days every week, as she also lives with her boyfriend part-time.
She and her other roommate Mary thought it was alright for Lucy to pitch in less with cleaning the dorm they shared since she wasn’t there all the time, and so, that was the agreement they tried to live with.
“We also agreed that she could use our kitchen supplies (dishes, cutlery, pots, pans) to make her food because she didn’t want to bring any of her own stuff,” she explained.
“Very quickly we realized that Lucy was also using our food and never washing her dishes. We even left a bowl of oatmeal in the sink until it was moldy to see if she would ever do it, she didn’t.”
She and Mary sat Lucy down several times and confronted her about not doing her dishes. They also let Lucy know that it wasn’t right for her to steal their food, and yet, Lucy refused to listen.
Lucy accused her and Mary of “being dramatic” and kept taking their food.
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“It got to the point where Mary and I were basically paying for another person’s meals for 3 days of the week,” she said.
Since Lucy didn’t care about her concerns or Mary’s, the girls decided to take matters into their own hands to stop what Lucy was doing.
She and Mary bought locks and locked up every single kitchen cabinet that contained their food, and finally, Lucy was listening.
Lucy had no choice but to start paying to purchase her own groceries, though she was furious about the locks on the cabinets.
Lucy also was upset that the girls stopped letting her use all of their kitchen equipment and plates.
“Mary and I told her that she needs to buy her own dishes and then we’ll take the padlocks off,” she continued.
Right now, the locks are still on the kitchen cabinets while she and Mary wait for Lucy to get in gear, but she’s left wondering if they were in the wrong for using the locks in the first place.
What do you think; is there another way they could have gotten Lucy to start listening and stop stealing their food?
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