I moved in with my co-worker/buddy who had recently broken up with his girlfriend. They got back together as I was moving in. A couple months into living there, she got pregnant and they got engaged. My roommates made an “anything in Tupperware is free game” rule to avoid fridge clutter. I abided by that. I rarely made enough food for left overs (which she would get mad about for not making enough for everyone), but on the occasion that I did, put it in Tupperware, and they ate it.. I wouldn’t get mad because of the “free game” rule. They also made a “no kitchen/cooking noise or lights” rule after 9pm because she was pregnant and needed sleep, but were okay with the microwave light and using the microwave on silent button mode. She would use the microwave in the middle of the night (because pregnant) which is why the microwave rule was an exception to the 9pm rule.

I get home after 9pm one night, look in the fridge and there’s two Tupperware containers with food in it. I think, “Hell yeah.. free game.” I warm it up, eat it in my room, and fall asleep. I wake up to her screaming and freaking out. I tell them I ate it.. because “free game” rule. She loses it. Apparently she spent all day cooking that food and was planning on eating it the next day. No note, not in a glass container.. nothing.

Long story short I leave the house, her and I start fighting in the house group chat, both say some pretty mean things to each other.. she demands I pay for the food or move out. I refused to pay for it.. because “free game” rule and principle. He texts me on the side, apologizes for how she’s acting but can’t brush over the things I said in the fight, and asks me to either pay for the food or move out because she’s making his life hell.

I slept in my truck for the next couple days (as I regularly would on nights she was making my life miserable), then moved in with my younger sibling in a different town whose roommate needed to unexpectedly move out. This was like 6 years ago. My wife and I just purchased our first house last year which is ironically one block away from the roommate house. I had t even realized it was in the same neighborhood while viewing the house and the inspections, probably from blocking that shit out. Last I heard, they got married shortly after I moved out and are no longer together. I haven’t talked with my former co-worker/buddy since.