Friday, May 1, 2020

Entitled Roommate Tastes Their Own Medicine


Man, oh man, this is a satisfying revenge story. We've got an entitled, lazy roommate ("Loony Lucy") who refuses to coexist in a way that's considerate to the other human being she shares the living space with. 

So, a revenge plan is hatched, and another lazy dude who doesn't possess much of that consideration for others, is brought into the equation as a subletter. He's practically a clone of the original entitled roommate. Sometimes it takes experiencing the toxic nature of your own energy to see how it is affecting others around you. Otherwise, you might just go on blind to it. Seems like Lucy had quite the wake up call. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge JOIN u/talesofakat • 3y My revenge on Loony Lucy, contender for World's Worst Roommate Bring your popcorn, because this is a long one. Loony Lucy is a slovenly, food-stealing, clothing- destroying waste of carbon. I dealt with it by keeping my space clean and ignoring her areas, storing my food at work or my boyfriend's place, and installing a lock on my bedroom door so she couldn't "borrow" outfits that "looked like she could fit into" when she had 30 pounds on me.

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Text - All that made Loony Lucy a bad roommate, but I had my work-arounds and she had the one saving grace of being Quiet At Night. So I put up with it. I put up with it, that is, until she broke our Cardinal Roommate Rule: no one gets a key to the apartment without both roommates agreeing. The rule was sacred; I couldn't even give a key to my boyfriend of more than a year.

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Text - Unbeknownst to me, Loony Lucy had met a guy online who lived several hours away. Within two weeks of "meeting" him, she invites him to meet IRL and stay over for the weekend. Loony Lucy then mailed this strange man a key to our apartment because he was going to get into town before she got off work. You read that right: a man she talked to for only two weeks, had never actually met and who I didn't know about now had a key to our shared apartment, and she wasn't going to be there to greet

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Text - I'm starting laundry while wearing only my Victoria's Secret robe because l'll be hopping into the shower right after. I hear the lock snick, turn around and see the door swing open to reveal a thin, Creepy-Looking Guy in a trench coat who just stands there silently while I freeze like a fucking idiot rabbit. CLG suddenly steps forward into the apartment, I come out of my startle, scream bloody murder and chuck the laundry detergent at his head before scrambling into my bedroom and lockin

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Text - CLG leaves, and to his credit, even locks the door behind him. Poor, poor CLG. I call Loony Lucy and ask her if CLG is her boyfriend and if she gave him a key. She said he was, and she did. She gushes about how they "met;" I hang up on her mid-sentence and call my boyfriend (who, lucky me, actually is 6-foot-4 and built like a tank). He comes over, we pack up the essentials and I move in with him that day. We hadn't thought we were quite ready for that step, turns out that in the face of

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Text - No apology or even excuses from Loony Lucy when BF and I go back the next week to get the rest of my stuff. She yells at me that it's my fault that I overreacted and that l'm lucky CLG didn't press charges for the mild concussion my laundry detergent gave him. Now, I'm slow to true anger. l'll bitch and moan with the rest of them, but actual rage is not in my usual repertoire of emotion. But guess what? I'm there now. Loony Lucy needs to pay. Still have that popcorn? Good.

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Text - Now, the 2-year lease is in my name only because Loony Lucy's credit is so shitty that nowhere in the "good" part of town would take her; she'd been living with her parents over an hour away from her job for months before we started rooming together. Hindsight tells me this is because no one else would room with her prior to me. Hindsight's a bitch. So there's nothing legally preventing me from subletting the apartment for the remaining 14 months on the lease. I could also evict her, but

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Text - I post a roommate ad on Craigslist, and make it quite the deal: I'll keep my original deposit on file and pay the first two months' rent and sublet fee, on the condition that they know they're living with food-thieving, clothing-destroying, bitchy slob. I may want revenge, but I'm not willing to sucker some innocent person into it. Over the next couple weeks I get a few nibbles, but no one has the flavor I'm looking for to match Loony Lucy. Then I get a message from Kevin. Kevin goes down

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Text - Kevin says the two-months rent seems kind of excessive and that there must be more to the story if I'm willing to pay that on top of the deposit and the sublet fee. So I tell Kevin the rest of the story. Kevin tells me he'll take the deal, but I should know something about him. Kevin says he is very happily active in the singles scene. Not looking to settle down, but very much looking to continue bringing home a revolving door of fuck buddies. Sometimes they'll stay for a couple days or a

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Text - I tell him it sounds like he and Loony Lucy will be a good roommate match. Kevin fills out the paperwork, leasing office does its credit/background check and gives it the green light. I mail Kevin my key. Kevin moves in. I get a frantic call from Loony Lucy about a strange man showing up saying he lives there with her now. I tell her that's right, he does, and explain the subletting process. She starts raging at me, I hang up and mute her calls.

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Text - Over the next few days I get a lot of voice mails. Some raging, some whining, some begging. Loony Lucy has been forced to clean and take out the trash like a slave or something because Kevin doesn't bother. Loony Lucy can't move out because she can't get a lease anywhere else and her parents won't let her move back home. Loony Lucy has to keep paying her half of the rent because Kevin told her if she stopped he'd change the locks and move all her stuff out. After a few weeks of radio sile

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Ridiculous Requests That IT Workers Received


This fun AskReddit thread has IT workers describing the most ridiculous requests/calls/occurrences they've had while on the job. IT workers really need to possess a superhuman level of patience to navigate the ins and outs of their jobs, while maintaining a grip on sanity. It's astounding how many people call for tech support, before checking to see if the computer is plugged in. 

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Text - Hysterical_Realist • 2h I work in web development/maintenance. I got a call from a client who was absolutely livid when I told her that she could not take the hyperlinked text from her webpage, transfer it over to their print ad, and still have it function like a link.

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Text - soiledpantsforsale • 3h Drove for 2 hours to replace a touchscreen monitor that had stopped responding; turns out they were wearing gloves. We used to log these type of callouts as ID-10-T errors

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Text - Estella_Osoka • 3h Once had a person call in to the IT desk because the soda machine stole their money.

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Text - dietderpsy • 2h Got a call to to remove a plug on a radio and push the wire through a small vent in the cabinet because the wire was "unsightly." I did this while 15 executives watched. None of them knew how to change a plug, and had never even seen the inside of one; but because it had a wire it was ITs responsibility.

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Text - MangosAreForLove • 2h Not necessarily an IT worker but a computer scientist (a lot of people get those confused) but one time I was at my sister's house and she needed help getting her printer connected so she ask me "You know how to do this help me" and I tried to do it because it was a simple google search to fix this but she is breathing down my neck because I'm not getting this solved at the speed she wants me to get it done. She then drops a "Didn't you go to school for this" on me a

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Text - theSQUINTYazn • 2h Lady called to report her monitor wasn't working. After troubleshooting and asking her multiple times if everything was plugged in she finally pipes up that the monitor "doesn't have the light on." The monitor wasn't plugged in and she wanted me to wake a guy up at 3am to do it because she was dressed to nicely to do it herself because she was preparing for a meeting at 6am. Told her to do it herself because I was not about to wake up the on call for that. She complaine

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Text - EtherBoo • 4h I'm an application architect for medical record software. My primary users (I REFUSE to call them customers) are physicians and nurses in a clinic setting. There's one specific doctor who will call and give a very vague description to the helpdesk. She refuses to do a shadow session, refuses to let us get screenshots, and the person from the helpdesk isn't an application expert so they're trying to write down her issue and she's using the wrong words. By the time we usually

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Text - D-Rez • 5h Vague tickets that give no clue as to what's wrong beyond "computer broke lol". Then you ring them up asking them to fill it in properly, and they get annoyed, "I thought you guys knew what you're doing". Or when the Karens at work drop off their personal laptops or phones, and expect us to fix it. That's not what we're here for.

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Text - NetworkMachineBroke 5h I'll start. One time somebody at a company asked me "Why isn't the microwave working? You're in IT after all! Fix it!" I thought they were joking, but after a bit of deliberation, they were either serious or very committed to the role.

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Text - ledow • 2h All sorts. It wasn't a demand, but I was once called to help get a fish out of a fish tank (it had decided to go on a suicide mission into the pumps and I had to dismantle it all to get it back out - it died). I'm regularly asked to help hang doors, fix locks, thermostats and boilers, change time on program clocks, even repair people's spectacles, shoes, and anything they carry that could break and look "technical". Hell, helping people with their broken- down cars, or breaking

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Text - NonHipster72 • 3h My favorite is... when our internet service goes out. Usually when this happens, there is a fiber or cable line down or our ISP is doing general maintenance. I try to explain to baby-boomer co-workers that my responsibility ends outside of our Local Area Network and it's our ISP's duty to repair whatever is causing the outage. No matter how many times I try to explain... they don't listen, it's my fault and I'm a lazy, piece-of- do-nothing shit and the reason they can't

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Text - TheDeadGunslinger • 2h One place I worked it was pretty much if it got electricity, it was IT's issue. We had to fix the water fountain that wouldn't stop running. We had to fix the coffee machine.

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Text - CommodoreFiftyFour • 2h Posted this before, but i was a remote tech and had a woman call me and wanted me to drive 6+ hours to her facility to turn on her computer, because hitting the power button was 'not her job'.

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Text - UltraChip • 2h I was asked to fix a cabinet once. I don't mean like a server rack or anything, I mean a literal wooden cabinet with shelves and stuff.

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Text - Frammingatthejimjam • 2h I have the stack of loan applications on my desk, why can't you come up with a way to get the data into the system.

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Text - brianh71 • 2h The power went out in our building and the owner of the company wanted to know what we were doing to get the computers up.

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Text - phillipinio • 2h I'm not an IT worker but this would happen when I was in school. We used laptops in school on some occasions and the person's account who would use a laptop the previous lesson would still be logged on. My teacher would really make the IT guy working in the school walk to our class and log accounts on and off because the kids were too stupid to know that all you had to do was log off the previous person's account.

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Text - Digibollocks • 2h Had a call in the middle of the night from India asking me if I was the administrator for a particular piece of software. I was not. No idea how he got my number. Must have read it off an email chain or something.

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Text - PioneerTheLegend • 3h I Work in the networking department as a support technician. I had a lady yelling at me and telling me our network service is totally crap. After calming her down I found out that her tv is showing a blue screen and won't switch channels... the wifi is working more than fine on her phone and her kids xbox as he is playing an online game while we were talking... I was expected to fix her old tv as it was a "network" problem...

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Insane Quora Questions That Defied Expectations


Ah yes, good old curiosity and all the strange rabbit holes that it can lead us down. Take for instance, the dude who took the internet on an emotional rollercoaster as he fell in love with his girlfriend's mom. That was a trip. Real or not, definitely enjoyed that one. Anyways, this bunch of random, bizarre, satirical, and hilarious Quora questions/answers from folks online reflect just how weird human beings are. 

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Text - Question added · Technology My son plays computer for 90 minutes every day. What should i do. Maybe rehab is a good idea 1 Answer · Last followed 7m ago

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Text - My 14-year-old daughter talks about dinosaurs and ancient civilizations all the time. It makes me uncomfortable because she implies that our current civilization would be long gone in about a thousand years. How doI make her stop talking like this? 535 Views

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Text - Should I let my 22 year old son install a lock on his door? I went through his 18 year old girlfriend's bag and now he's saying he doesn't trust me when they leave the house.

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Text - You are offered $926,840,441,000 but you must live inside of a barrel of acid for 83.24 days. Do you accept? Why or why not?

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Text - Question My 15-year-old son shaved his legs. How do I stop him from doing it again? ఎ 000 Answer Follow Request More

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Text - Hello Boomer! Answer · History Why did men wear suits nearly every time they went out in the "olden days" but not these days? Answered 1h ago I wouldn't call the 1960s the "olden days". I'd call the 1260s the olden days. But, never mind that. I suspect that men don't wear suits as often today because of the rise of the cult of personal gratification. People in general now believe that the comfort and convenience of the individual is more important than the effect their manner or dress has

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Text - You have 15 seconds to ruin a wedding. What do you do in the 15 seconds? Answered Thu 1. Run up to the groom and grab onto him. 2. Kiss him on the lips and say, "Babe, don't marry her! I'm pregnant! You're the father!" 3. When he stares in confusion, say, "You said you were only dating that ugly pig for the money! Why are you marrying her? Let's run away to raise the baby and all the other children you had with me and other women while you were dating this fatty!"

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Text - My daughter is 14 and still sleeps with and buys stuffed animals. How do I get her to stop? Updated Mar 31 Dude. I am a 16-year-old boy and I still sleep with a teddy bear. I use it because it supports my arm (i sleep on my side). it's also cute as fuck. let your daughter live omfg. she could be 50 and sleep with a stuffed toy and it STILL wouldn't matter EDIT: why the FUCK does this have so many upvotes???

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Text - What is the most outrageous or incorrect statement an American has said to a British person about the United Kingdom? I was working at a medical expo in Atlanta some years ago and got chatting to an American doctor. He asked me where I was from and I answered 'Liverpool'. 'Ah, yes', he says. 'I thought I recognised your accent. I love Wales.

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Text - 'Liverpool is in England, not Wales', I replied. 'But it's not far from there. He then says, "I think you'll find it is in Wales. I've been there several times!" 'It isn't. I assure you. I do live there.' I said. A similar exchange continued for a few minutes. In the end, I was so flabbergasted, I opened Google Maps and showed him where Liverpool was in relation to Wales. It's only about 20km away as the crow flies. He studied the mạp briefly then walked off stating that 'We'll have to di

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Text - The "C" grade students from my high school are leading happy and successful lives. How is this possible?

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Text - Question added Interpersonal Interaction My friend lied to his parents about having a girlfriend and now they want to meet her. Now he wants me to dress up as a girl and pretend to be his girlfriend. Is this a good idea? 6 Answers Last followed Sat 2 Answer X Pass Follow 2

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Text - German Ethnicity and People +2 Is it true that German people laugh?

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Text - My 12 year old daughter got a B in a report card and I took away her iPad for 6 months. Was this a good punishment? 147 000 Answer Follow Request More

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Text - If my neighbor's bees routinely steal pollen from my flowers and make honey that my neighbor profits from selling, can I sue them for a portion of that profit? ఎం (7 Answer Follow Request More

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Text - Barbering +4 My former barber lied and told me he stopped cutting hair, yet I found out he's still in business. Do I have a case here? a 13 000 Answer Follow Request More

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Text - A Karen probably wrote this. Satire My son has a YouTube channel with 12 million subscribers. How do I tell him it's not a viable career option and shut down the account while not being despised?

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Text - Country Comparisons Canada Countries of the World +2 My friend from Canada says America is not the greatest country in the world. How can I convince him otherwise? Answer a Follow - 11 8 Request 000

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Text - 4G, 0.20 00:35 l KB/S My 4 year old's art is terrible. Should I tell her?

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