RelationshipsDEC 28, 2023

College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

Having roommates is a very normal part of life, especially during one's early days of adulthood and being free from parental tyrann… I mean, comfort and protection. Yeah, that…

Anywho, moving from your parents’ place to live with roommates in a dorm can be exciting, but it’s not guaranteed. You can still win the problematic roomie lottery and end up having to move all your stuff because they asked nicely. But you can comply, maliciously.

Having a roommate, while fun, can come with its own risk factors that might irk in you something fierce

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So fierce, in fact, that when asked to move all your stuff, you will proceed to move the living room and kitchen as well

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In the end, the college student ended up with all of their homely conveniences inside their tiny dorm room

The story goes that OP, Reddit user u/KarsonWasHere, shared a pretty spacious dorm apartment with 3 other ladies. One of them was cool, but the other two kept disrespecting their belongings and boundaries.

While OP was cool and patient with them—despite having their property damaged and privacy violated—even saints have limits and so appropriate measures had to be taken when the time came for the last straw.

The last straw, i.e. was that one time when the two problematic roomies approached OP, waking them up in the process, to ask (it was a first) to move their stuff. The stuff they were referring to was their shoes. Weird, seeing as shoes only had one place, but they were insisting that they made an effort to keep all of their stuff in their room.

Say no more, fam.

The next day, OP organized a moving crew (of friends) and moved every bit of furniture they had, along with every bit of the cool roommate’s furniture into their respective rooms. This included the couch, the television, pretty much everything in the common living room area, save for the two girls’ DVD player and coffee machine.

Needless to say, the two ladies were not happy. They called in the resident assistant, who could do nothing with private property, so they suggested apologizing and being civil. That never happened. Good malicious compliance though.

Commenters loved the college student’s malicious compliance, saying it serves the two roomies right

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A number of people in the comment section pointed out that they likely wouldn’t have let the two ladies go past strike one, though. If someone was to throw their stuff around, they would’ve called the RA immediately. Next offense, they would’ve started throwing stuff around too.

Others pointed out that it was not right that the two roommates were demanding OP not keep their stuff in a shared space. It’s a shared space, c’mon, it’s for everyone living there. What sort of entitlement is this?

One other commenter pointed out that this should’ve been a great life lesson for the two ladies. They didn’t seem all that grown up and they were in college at that point—guess what’ll happen when real life comes around.

Some Redditors shared their own stories of dealing with immature roommates. One explained that their roomies refused to get off the couch that belonged to OP thinking the moving guys wouldn’t lift it. Guess who was on the floor moments after?

Bored Panda reached out to the author of the post who elaborated on some of the aspects of their story

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Quite a bit of time has passed since the events of the story—6 years as of this article—so OP provided more context to the aftermath and the events that followed:

"They both refused to apologize for the rest of the school year, and they refused to get any furniture except for a small mini fridge that they put in their room," elaborated OP. "B and I got really close that year and proceeded to share a two-person room for the rest of college, and are still friends to this day."

OP also added that the following year, C approached them and apologized for her behavior. Turns out, she had just been following along with A because she simply never had any friends before and didn't know better. She was genuine in her efforts to make things right. A, on the other hand, still seems to be her entitled self. At least according to social media.

"I think they were just arrogant and felt like they were entitled to the entire living room for some reason," said OP. All the more reason to make the malicious compliance more malicious, right? So, we had to ask OP if there was anything they could've done to one-up their compliance plan. There was:

"Technically, the coolers I left their food in were mine, so I could've just left it all out on the counter and taken those. There were also some little things (dish soap, sponges, all the toilet paper and hand soap in the bathroom) that I could've taken too, but at the time it felt like overkill."

And, after it all, besides the fun bit of compliant revenge, their door also got fixed a week later, so it's safe to say many would consider it an absolute win.