Petty Revenge

Roommate pretends she's poor so I'll give her food

This happened recently. I was doing a semester-long college program at the Happiest Place On Earth, living in an apartment owned by that company with five other roommates.

This one girl, whom I'll call Vivian, was extremely nice to me. Always complimented my looks, gave me rousing speeches about how I'm going to do amazing things in life, and always would tell me that I'm amazing and wonderful and great. I thought of her as a friend and since I noticed she ate nothing but instant ramen, gogurts, and zipzicles(if you don't know what these are, they're much like gogurts in the way that they can freeze, melt, and unfreeze with no problem, only they're popsicles rather than yogurt) I started offering her my food to eat. She proceeded to eat half of the groceries I bought, but only my junk food items like hot pockets, pop tarts, potato chips, soda, etc. I would notice that my food went missing only to find out she's eaten them. I had asked her to ask me first before eating anything and she wouldn't even bother.

I started to realize that she's one of those people who claim to be poor but weren't really - she'd give half her shifts away and thus make no money and would buy tickets to go to Sea World, Busch Gardens, and other expensive places. She also never invited me anywhere nor did she ever talk to me unless I talked to her first. And when I would invite her to places she'd claim that she was too poor to spend any money and thus couldn't go with me, but if someone else were to invite her to the same place then she'd suddenly find enough money to go with them.

I realized I was being used for my food and free rides(she had no car) so I stopped letting her eat my food. This is where her personality changed - every day she would either pretend I didn't exist or randomly tell me I was an asshole, a bitch, that I should stop talking because everything I said was stupid, etc. She acted like it was my fault all she's been eating nowadays was instant noodles! She started to alienate the entire apartment through her negativity and always saying rude things to me.

Before our program ended we had two roommates quit and go home early and one roommate switch apartments, leaving me, Vivian and one other roommate left to clean the six-person apartment before our move-out date.

The other roommate and I didn't expect Vivian to help us clean anything since she hasn't cleaned anything all program long. The other roommate washes Vivian's dishes for her(otherwise they'd pile up in the sink) and the rest of us clean the common rooms by ourselves. But, one night while I was still awake at 3am but with my bedroom door closed and the lights off I overheard Vivian talking on the phone about how she's going to secretly move out of the apartment while the other roommate and I were sleeping because she wanted to force us to clean the entire apartment by ourselves. She also claimed that we were the ones calling her names and bullying her, signaling me out as her main abuser, saying that I was taking her food and spreading false rumors about her to the other roommates. Buh? What?

Well, a few days later I wake up to find that Vivian really did move out of the apartment while we were asleep. However she did leave an entire box of unopened gogurt and zipcicles behind. She also left some items scattered about in her room. I went to the person at housing and told her of my predicament - I've already had to clean out the rooms of the other roommates who left without throwing their shit away, I didn't want to do it again, especially since I myself had to leave in three days. She looked Vivian up for me in the system, and turns out even though there's pretty much nothing in her room now she never actually turned her key in. I know she's staying in a hotel but still going in for work so I'm assuming that she eventually plans on coming back for her food.

Well.

I decided it was time for me to clean out the fridge. I went back to my apartment, grabbed a trash bag, and threw every single little thing. I took Vivian's zipzicles and gogurts and put them in my bag. I even found a pack of instant noodles and put them in my room as well. I put a note on the fridge addressed to my remaining roommate about how I've cleaned out the entire fridge and pantry.

Two days later in the middle of the night I hear Vivian walk into the apartment. I hear the fridge doors opening and closing. I hear the cabinet doors opening. I hear her leave the apartment. I walk out and find the note that I written teared in half. I go back to my room and pack the gogurts and zipzicles into my bag. They made for excellent snacks on my 8 hour drive home the next day.