Her Roommate Offered Her Leftovers From A Fancy Restaurant, But She Later Received A Venmo Request For The Price Of The Meal, And She Thought Being Expected To Pay Was Ridiculous

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A few years ago, this 22-year-old young woman lived with her college roommate, who was also 22 at the time. And one week, her roommate invited a hometown friend to visit their school.

Now, because it had been a long time since her roommate had seen their friend, the pair decided to “splurge” a bit and eat out at a really nice restaurant in the city.

But, by the time her roommate arrived back at their house, they reportedly could not stop talking about just how expensive all of the food was.

Her roommate also ended up bringing home a box of leftovers, claiming that they could not fathom leaving it behind since the food cost so much money. Plus, her roommate claimed they did not want to just waste the food.

Yet, by the next morning, her roommate approached her with a confusing offer. More specifically, her roommate asked if she just wanted to eat the leftovers herself.

Now, she was obviously surprised, given all of the conversations about the meal’s cost. She did honestly want to eat the food, though, and ended up accepting the leftovers.

But, at that point, her roommate ended up asking her, “Are you sure?” And quite frankly, she found that pretty odd.

Nonetheless, she told her roommate “yes” again. Then, after she was handed the leftovers, she heated up the food and ate it all.

Just a few hours later, though, her roommate reached out to her regarding the food again. But this time, she simply received a Venmo request that was labeled “leftovers.”

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Understandably, she was really confused after seeing that and decided to head to her roommate’s room to ask why they were charging her for the food that was given to her. And afterward, her roommate’s reasoning totally caught her off guard.

“[My roommate] said it was assumed because of all the conversations regarding the costs and that she had even ‘double-checked’ with me. That’s what ‘are you sure’ meant, I guess,” she recalled.

So, since she essentially ate about half of the dish her roommate had at the restaurant, she was charged half of the price. Despite that, though, she was honestly really annoyed.

She ended up telling her roommate that she would never have accepted the leftovers if she knew she was going to be charged for them. However, her roommate flipped the situation on her– claiming that she should never have accepted the food if she did not plan on paying for it since she “knew how expensive it was.”

Anyway, she ultimately decided to just pay her roommate half of what had been Venmo requested; in other words, about 25 percent of the meal’s actual cost. That way, she could get her roommate off her back and move on from the argument.

To this day, though, she and her roommate have never really squashed the issue. In fact, her roommate still believes that she should have paid in full, and she still thinks that was completely unnecessary.

So now, she has been left wondering if not paying her roommate for the full price of the leftovers was actually a jerky thing to do or not.

If your roommate offered you leftovers, would you think you were expected to pay for them? Should her roommate have been upfront about wanting to be reimbursed for the food? Who do you agree with in this situation? If you were in her shoes, how would you squash the issue? 

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