Redditor Says She Banned Roommate from Using Dorm Fridge After Finding It Filled with 'Rotten' Food

After returning from a three week trip, the student says she came back to dorm fridge filled with “rotten veggies and rotten raw meat”

A Redditor is asking for her community’s opinion after banning her roommate from using her dorm fridge, which she claims did not initially go over well with their mutual friends.

On Monday, Aug. 19, a user going by the name Elestratik in the "AITA" subreddit, which translates to “Am I the a------,” shared a lengthy post about what happened.

“My dorm is a corridor-type one and it only has one kitchen per floor,” wrote the Redditor, who described herself as a 24-year-old woman.

“On each kitchen there are two fridges for common use, but there aren't many people who keep their food in there, for these fridges are tiny, and there are approximately 70 tenants on each floor," she added. "Another reason (and a kind of a brutal unspoken rule) is that whatever food you put in there is as good as gone, because anyone can easily steal it. So, most of the tenants, me included, have their own fridges in their rooms.”

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The Redditor went on to say that she’s always allowed her roommates to store their food in her fridge, as long as they agree to keep it tidy — but that she'd had to talk to her current roommate "a couple of times" because "some of her food started to rot and stink."

The Redditor said that when it was time to leave for summer break, she urged her roommate to make sure perishable food didn't end up sitting in the fridge.

Though the roommate remained on campus, when the Redditor returned in three weeks, she claimed she came back to a “fridge full of rotten veggies and rotten raw meat.”

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“This wasn't the first time she'd done it, but the most serious one, so I banned her from using my fridge,” she wrote.

Afterwards, she claims that her roommate "complained about it to our mutual friends," who then allegedly left their own "angry messages, saying that I am an AH and being cruel."

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This post sparked a discussion, with several commenters in favor of the roommate fridge ban.

"It isn't her right to be able to use your fridge, it's a privilege. If she needed to use it so bad then she should have respected," wrote one commenter. “She sounds insufferable. Stick to your guns. If you lose friends over not letting them destroy your things.. they weren't good friends."

Another added, “If your friends keep giving you a hard time, tell them they are welcome to let her use their fridge or chip in on one for her.”

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Luckily the Redditor said in an update that “most of the friends really changed their minds” after she was able to show them evidence of the foul fridge. As for the roommate, she noted that although cleaning can be a sore subject, she does a "relatively" good job with other chore-type activities.

In a message to the commenters who weighed in, she added, "Again, I want to thank you all for helping me with sorting it out, you really are the best!"

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