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• #1   Jordie

  I love this woman for this, organic milk obsession and all. How clever!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:22 am   rating: 58  
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• #2   rush

  Team Lauren. She let him stay at her house and eat her food… the least he can do to say thanks is to replace what he used, and not with a cheaper version.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:24 am   rating: 147  
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  • #2.1   The Elf

    That is, assuming he knows where he gets her “weird expensive milk”. I don’t think it’s too unreasonable to think that an out-of-towner wouldn’t know. Still, he should at least offer to get it.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 pm   rating: 19  
     

  • #2.2   Silence

    Simple solution to that:

    “Hey Lauren, is it cool if I have some of your milk? Also, where do you buy it, in case I need to replace it?”

    Boom. Good guy points.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 9:48 pm   rating: 56  
     

  • #2.3   ninjaduck

    I would have just asked her how much it was and gave her money for it. OR just bought my own damn milk.

    Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 am   rating: 5  
     
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• #3   Tupelo

  This sounds like a situation that could/should have been taken care of before the guy was allowed to stay at the house for an extended period of time.
  Also, if you are allowing someone to stay more than a few days you should foresee this happening. It seems like you could just ask them, “Hey man, did you drink all my milk? Oh, ok. Well can you replace it next time? Hey, I know it’s a pain to go to the other store and get the organic stuff. Why not just leave a few bucks when you finish it so I can go buy some. Ok, cool – thanks!”
  No wonder my roommates and I tended to get along fairly well.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:25 am   rating: 21  
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  • #3.1   mmmilky

    I dunno, I wouldn’t be happy with money being left as a replacement – maybe she had to go out of her way to get the organic milk. Sounds like she certainly had to go further than a gas station so I’d find that annoying.
    Ice coffee with organic milk after work seems a nice routine she needs. I’d be (I am) pissy if (when) someone messes with my after-work routines.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 11:32 am   rating: 50  
     

  • #3.2   pooham

    Definitely! I get angry when I’m looking forward to that ice cold beer when I get home only to find that my Dad dropped by and drank half of it. It’s really not the fact that he drank the beer as it is about my unfufilled expectations and having to delay my gratification to go 10 minutes away to get more after a long day/week and fighting traffic.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 12:56 pm   rating: 21  
     

  • #3.3   The Elf

    Oh, Tupelo. Reason has no place here.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 2:05 pm   rating: 10  
     

  • #3.4   kermit

    The difference between “room-mate” and “guest” is that the guest is your friend and at the very least not a flaming a-hole.

    And just to be clear, if you drink all the milk your host just bought the day before and head over to the local gas station to buy expired milk as replacement, you’re a flaming a-hole.

    Just because you may not be familiar with the town doesn’t mean that you can’t ask where the grocery store is. And it definitely doesn’t mean that you can mindlessly grab any milk on the shelf without checking the expiration date first.

    It’s probably not universal, but small local gas stations almost always sell expired (or close to expired) food products because most people do their food shopping at grocery stores not the gas station.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 7:18 pm   rating: 29  
     

  • #3.5   a-Arialist

    Nah – leaving money is better than nothing but still not good enough. You’ve had a long day at work, you come home really looking forward to your iced tea, and then find you’ve got to go out again to buy milk because the person you’ve let stay in your house has drank it and is too bloody lazy to find out where to replace it? Nope.

    Feb 5, 2013 at 3:02 am   rating: 5  
     
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• #4   rupert

  “…I’m a kind and understanding friend…”
  I do not think it means what you think it means.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:26 am   rating: 49  
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  • #4.1   Ivona

    She had all the reasons to be upset. His behavior was a behavior of an inconsiderate pig.

    Feb 10, 2013 at 10:42 am   rating: 8  
     

  • #4.2   Mystery

    At least he didn’t mix her special milk with Iocane Powder……..

    Feb 13, 2013 at 12:41 am   rating: 2  
     
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• #5   Jessela

  Honestly I’m just suprised someone could drink a whole gallon of milk in one day!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:28 am   rating: 26  
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  • #5.1   Thneed

    Why on earth do you think it was a gallon? Just the word “carton” indicates to me that it was a half-gallon at most; possibly even a quart.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 3:18 pm   rating: 9  
     

  • #5.2   Tracey

    You haven’t met my son.

    Feb 6, 2013 at 2:13 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #5.3   Caiman

    You haven’t met me.

    I keep telling myself I need to make it last for money’s sake, but some part of me just doesn’t get the memo…

    Feb 11, 2013 at 9:18 am   rating: 0  
     
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• #6   tbone

  Lauren gets mega creativity points for that fine acrostic. What a great way to get your point across!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:30 am   rating: 17  
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• #7   egg

  I’m going to call out Johnny in Alabama who submitted this note. How did his brother “accidentally” put the empty carton back in the fridge? Who does that? Also, the construction “the second time it happened” is itself the ultimate passive aggressive note…the way this post is written, the milk must have drunk itself! Sorry, but I’m on Team Lauren too.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:38 am   rating: 70  
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  • #7.1   FeRD

    Oh, believe me, I know plenty of people who put empty containers back in the fridge all the time. Even when it’s their own fridge! Some people really are that oblivious. Although it does tend to go hand-in-hand with a spoiled assumption that someone else will take care of those things for them ­— usually, anyway.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 3:38 pm   rating: 9  
     

  • #7.2   Guest

    I know I’ve absent-mindedly put finished cartons back into the fridge if I’ve been distracted by something else. I do usually realise what I’ve done as I shut the fridge door though, it just makes me look silly. I also know people who have been looking for something like a bill and found it in the fridge because they put it in there by mistake. So it could have been an accident.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 4:34 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #7.3   Jessi

    @7.2, your story reminds me of the time I was only half awake when eating breakfast and I put the cereal in the fridge and the milk in the pantry. I didn’t notice until I got home from work.

    Feb 5, 2013 at 1:53 am   rating: 10  
     

  • #7.4   justme

    Jessi, your story reminds me of the time my 9 year old and I were eating cereal at the coffee table, and when he was finished, my son got up, took his bowl to the kitchen, and put it in the pantry. He didn’t realize he had put it in the pantry instead of the sink until I asked him what he was doing. He did grow up to be a competent (though still absent-minded) adult.

    Feb 5, 2013 at 10:07 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #7.5   L

    I have worked at the library I work at for three years. I’ve been going there for 8. It’s 2 big rooms, a bathroom, a boiler room, and a stock room. It ain’t big.

    Today I turned around and walked into a pillar. The only pillar in the library. Which is in the middle the room.

    Some days are not good for the thinking, especially if I sleep badly.

    Feb 21, 2013 at 6:52 pm   rating: 1  
     
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• #8   Jaylemeux

  Lauren is awesome for this.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:45 am   rating: 12  
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• #9   guest

  friends that are
  understanding,
  considerate, and
  kind are rare and
  you are important to me. I promise I will not
  open your foodstuffs anymore
  unless I am sure I can make a
  trip to the store for
  organic replacements. I
  owe you this and more for your hospitality.

  –Jared

  Feb 4, 2013 at 11:53 am   rating: 81  
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  • #9.1   PS

    But
    If you
    Think I’m overstaying my welcome,
    Contact me ASAP and I will
    Head on out.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 12:11 pm   rating: 63  
     
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• #10   Cait

  Sure, she should set some ground rules. But if you don’t wanna buy that ‘wierd and expensive milk she buys’, then don’t drink it either and get your own ‘normal’ milk instead.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm   rating: 80  
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• #11   shepd

  That is a pro-level PAN right there. Excellent form!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 12:21 pm   rating: 25  
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• #12   doodles

  Nicely Done!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 1:00 pm   rating: 0  
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• #13   Another Guest

  Two thumbs up for the acrostic, but thumbs down for the note itself. It’s not clear whether Jared was technically a roommate or if he was simply a guest for a couple of weeks, but that’s not how you treat a guest in your home.

  Having guests naturally leads to a certain amount of inconvenience, and it looks like he at least tried to replace what he’d taken (and Egg, I’ve absent-mindedly replaced empty cartons in my OWN refrigerator before. Fortunately it didn’t cause anyone but me any headache, but it happens).

  If you don’t want your houseguests eating your food, don’t have houseguests, or make it clearer than just writing your name on stuff. Use your WORDS, people!

  That being said, the guest does have some responsibility too – primarily in not overstaying his welcome and trying to minimize the inconvenience, but his attempts to replace the milk (even if it wasn’t the same stuff) show at least some awareness. A little more effort on his part, and a little more understanding on hers, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion….

  Feb 4, 2013 at 1:04 pm   rating: 20  
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  • #13.1   Aidan

    As someone who drinks only organic milk (but doesn’t maintain a wholly organic diet), non-organic milk isn’t the same. It doesn’t taste the same, it doesn’t even smell the same, and if she drinks organic milk because of health concerns (since the hormones in non-organic milk can negatively affect your body), he should replace it with organic milk.

    And to be honest? There’s a difference between having a visiting house guest (say for the holidays) and letting a friend stay with you because they’re between places or something, which is more of what I’m getting from this. If my “house guest” completely emptied my milk the DAY AFTER I BOUGHT IT, that’s a damn problem. I’m doing you a favor by letting you stay with me, you can buy your own damn food.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 1:17 pm   rating: 51  
     

  • #13.2   Sharpy

    I think putting your name on your food is a pretty clear sign that it’s not for everyone.

    Unless “Lauren” is the name of the milk. Then that’s a different situation.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 1:28 pm   rating: 31  
     

  • #13.3   Merri

    What ‘house guest’ goes into their host’s refrigerator? It’s not their food.
    And I could never go back to drinking regular milk after organic. You realize how bad the non-organic tastes. If that’s all there was, I wouldn’t drink milk.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 1:35 pm   rating: 8  
     

  • #13.4   The Elf

    Well, any house guest who is actually living there for a few weeks has to eat, and presumably the host won’t be around 24/7. Going through the fridge itself isn’t totally out of line.

    Not making some effort to replace something that was (apparantly) special is, though.

    But, honestly, Another Guest has it exactly right. Use your words. If you’re Lauren, you say upfront “Help yourself to whatever I’ve got in the fridge. But I love a nice glass of organic milk after work, so save some for me, okay?” Then the guest says something like “I love milk! Where do you get that fancy milk so I can replace it?” or “Why don’t I just pick up my own milk to have while I’m here, since I love milk too. Hey, do you need anything while I’m out?”

    Feb 4, 2013 at 2:12 pm   rating: 16  
     

  • #13.5   Jami

    To me it’s not the fact he didn’t get the organic milk. It’s the fact he got SPOILED milk.

    Who doesn’t take the time to check the dates on things like milk?

    Putz.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 2:41 pm   rating: 30  
     

  • #13.6   FeRD

    @Jami: Who doesn’t? The same people who put empty containers back in the fridge. So, at least he’s consistent, if not the most attractive houseguest/roommate.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 3:44 pm   rating: 9  
     

  • #13.7   shepd

    The taste difference between organic and non-organic milk is due to organic milk tending to go with the modern UHT pasteurization process, whereas most (but not all) non-organic milk is not UHT pasteurized. This is also why the “sell by” date on organic milk is much later than on most non-organic milk. It is the common opinion of chefs that UHT pasteurization damages the flavour of it, but that’s a different discussion.

    I have, on many occasions, bought non-organic UHT milk. It’s hard to find so you may have to ask for it. It’s great to have one or two cartons in the cupboard for when you run out of milk but are too lazy to go buy more (YES, at the gas station… ).

    The feed and growth hormones difference don’t lend a difference to the taste. The antibiotics certainly could–however–it would be VERY difficult to sell milk that doesn’t taste right.

    FWIW, having had all four types of milk myself, the only discernible taste difference is between UHT vs. non-UHT. I’ve also had the fifth and sixth (illegal here!) flavours (non-homogenized, and the oh-no! illegal raw milk) and of course the flavours of those are different as well.

    Not a milk connoisseur, just happened to end up trying them all because I spent time in Canada (always homogenized and rarely UHT) and a rather country area of the UK (which still had milk delivery from a local farm, choice of raw or non-homogenized) and also time in the UK outside of an area with milk delivery (Always UHT).

    Feb 4, 2013 at 6:32 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #13.8   Jami

    @FeRD Nah, everyone in their life has a moment or two when they put something empty back in the fridge. Not feeling well, very busy, distracted, still half asleep, maybe even sleep walking, etc.

    I’ve seen stinking nearly falling down drunk people check the date on milk before they buy it.

    So I repeat – who the heck doesn’t check the date on the milk before buying it?!

    Feb 4, 2013 at 8:51 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #13.9   Amanda

    Are you dumb???

    1. In the explanation of the note, the submitter, Johnny, specifically states that his brother, Jared, stayed with his friend, Lauren, for a few weeks… making him a guest, not a roommate.

    2. You are supposed to replace whatever you take with the same thing or something pretty close…. Would you replace a Twix bar that you ate with some Sour Patch Kids? Maybe, but that would make you a jerk. If you drank organic milk, you should replace it with organic milk, even the same brand if possible.

    3. She specifically stated in the note (3rd and 4th line) that she wrote her name on it.

    Or maybe you’re just a troll and you know all this shit but decided to bother all of us with your stupidity.

    Feb 4, 2013 at 9:26 pm   rating: 12  
     

  • #13.10   a-Arialist

    It doesn’t sound like Jared is a guest in the common sense of ‘house guest’ to me. It sounds like Lauren is doing her friend (the submitter) a favour by letter his brother Jared stay with her for a while.

    Feb 5, 2013 at 3:08 am   rating: 6  
     

  • #13.11   Ivona

    When you’re a guest in someone’s home, especially long-term, and especially when the host is putting you up as a favor, you don’t eat or drink anything unless you’ve been told that it’s for you to enjoy. And you don’t drink or eat the last of anything. And if you do, then you make sure to replace it with the EXACT same thing.

    Feb 10, 2013 at 10:48 am   rating: 4  
     
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• #14   Brattus Rattus

  Houseguest or roommate doesn’t matter. If you finish off the last of something that you didn’t buy, you replace it. Not a generic version, not something close. THE SAME THING.

  In this case, if you like milk, you get yourself a gallon or two and replace what you drank. Seems simple enough.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 2:50 pm   rating: 23  
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• #15   Roto13

  I get the impression this is the kind of person who deserves to have her milk stolen.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 3:11 pm   rating: 9  
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• #16   shawn

  crying over spilled (poured) milk n’ shit!

  Feb 4, 2013 at 3:16 pm   rating: 2  
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• #17   Okay then.

  I think me and Lauren need to be BFF’s!

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• #18   My name is Princess!

  Am I the only one that is reading the all caps bold line in Linda Blair’s The Exorcist voice? Team note writer but I am scared for the letter recipient.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 6:17 pm   rating: 6  
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• #19   Brett

  First-world problems. This is why I spend most of my time out of America.

  Organic milk. She’s lucky to have milk at all. And a house.

  Feb 4, 2013 at 7:55 pm   rating: 12  
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  • #19.1   Amanda

    Oh boo hoo. How about the fact that he is not respecting her or her stuff? Is that a worldwide problem?

    So according to you I can’t complain that I lost my job because someone out there is starving? Right…

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• #20   Kris

  That’s beyond being a bad house guest. 1. You don’t drink/use the last of ANYTHING belonging to your host unless they o it. 2. You replace said item with the exact same thing. 3. Do not be a complete piggy idiot to do it twice in a row.

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• #21   Ryan

  Sounds like Lauren needs to take a Xanax.

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• #22   Kupo

  This reminds me of my old room mates. I would buy name brands of certain things where I didn’t like the store brand and pay a little more for things like meat. They were very aware of this and we had a standing rule that if we ate something, we had to replace it.

  Yet.. they would eat it all and replace it with all Wal-Mart store brands (or cheaper if they could find it) of everything. Not that I’m too good for Wal-Mart brand, but there are some things I feel like spending extra on. Sometimes they would even not eat their OWN store brand version of something and eat all of mine instead because it was better.

  The time I spent $40 on nice spices and they used them all (in 4 nights. Figure that shit out.) and ‘replaced’ them with new containers of salt and pepper was one of my favorites.

  Team Lauren for sure. If you’re not willing to shell out the money for the ‘expensive’ milk, don’t fucking drink it.

  Feb 5, 2013 at 10:52 am   rating: 23  
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  • #22.1   redheadwglasses

    Wow. I just spent $8 on a very small container of ground cloves (which I loathe) in order to make molasses cookies for my boyfriend. If a roommate/guest used that up, I’d expect them to replace it within 24 hours, and they wouldn’t get any damn cookies.

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• #23   Daniel

  Team Lauren all the way. This isn’t PA, it’s just funny.

  The brother comes off as entitled, as though he’s a kid just visiting Grandma instead of an adult who’s being given a big favor by a peer. If you’re staying with someone for nearly a month, you should be buying your own groceries and at least offering to help with rent and utilities.

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• #24   sockpuppet

  since when is organic milk “weird expensive milk”? It’s not even soy or rice milk or goat milk, it’s just cow milk minus the hormones and antibiotics. It’s also sold at just about every grocery store in the country. It isn’t hard to find. And if he has an issue with it being too expensive and he can’t afford to replace it, then he shouldn’t be drinking it.

  Feb 5, 2013 at 11:22 am   rating: 9  
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  • #24.1   redheadwglasses

    Well, not exactly. It also means the cows were fed an organic diet.

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• #25   redheadwglasses

  Team note writer. Submitter: Your brother is a ginormous douche of a houseguest.

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• #26   Jami

  Okay, I think it’s been long enough now. (I’m trying to space this out so it doesn’t become old before it becomes a meme.)

  I bet Rufus Sewell would’ve replaced the milk properly – AND checked the date!

  Feb 5, 2013 at 11:57 am   rating: 2  
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• #27   Betty in LA

  I’m siding with Lauren on this one. Jared is a jerk.

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• #28   anotherfool

  If you don’t like your guest’s behavior, say to their face “it’s time for you to leave.” PA notes with encoded “dirty” word insults aren’t the adult way to interact. Not defending the childlike guest, whose parents clearly failed at raising him well, but Lauren is being textbook PA, here.

  Feb 5, 2013 at 4:23 pm   rating: 3  
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  • #28.1   Jo

    I don’t know, I think I would like her PA skills a little better if the ‘hidden’ comment was less obvious, ie if it wasn’t in bold and underlined.

    Also, the note doesn’t read that naturally. It’s too obvious that there’s a hidden message.

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• #29   Hastor

  I find it funny that Organic milk is being referred to by the submitter as “weird”. The stuff you buy at the gas station/grocery store etc. is actually full of all the weird shit. Up until a few decades ago, organic is all that anyone drank! While I wouldn’t leave a stupid passive aggressive note, I also wouldn’t consider non-0rganic milk to be an adequate replacement.

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• #30   BrianH

  He at least tried to replace the milk. So he has a bit of a conscience. I’n sure all it would have taken is for to ask him to get the organic for her and maybe he pick up regular milk for himself. The letter is a bit overboard.

  With a letter like that I would have replaced the milk but after it was opened would have put a surprise in it.

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  • #30.1   Jac

    His conscience led him to get expired gas station milk, And then drink her milk empty again. And then leave the empty in the fridge. He was a dick and got treated as such.

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• #31   Anna

  Your “friend” is awful.

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• #32   squib

  My inlaws used to do that when they were visiting us. They’d eat all of something in the fridge, which is absolutely fine, they’re short-term guests that are welcome to help themselves. Then they’d replace it with the weird fat-free version they prefer, and leave that for us.

  Never made any sense to me. If you’d rather eat that, just buy it and bring it with you, or even ask me to have some on hand. Otherwise, if you’re trying to be nice by replacing what you ate, why wouldn’t you replace it with the same thing? (No weight issues at my house, so I don’t think it was a passive-aggressive commentary!)

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• #33   Esper Eatos

  I live at home while attending college. Due to health problems, my sister and her husband moved back in with us.
  They have claimed the outside fridge for their food. We both pay rent, but my mom is the one who goes to the grocery store (I don’t have time and my sister works long hours.)
  I will ask my mom to buy me fruit, and then the next morning it will be gone, despite being in my own fruit bowl.
  It really pisses me off, because then she gets mad when I go looking for food in her fridge because she ate all mine and i don’t have money or a car to pick up new things.

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• #34   Ivona

  Lauren was completely right to be upset with Jared and to write him this note. It was rude and inconsiderate of him to replace her milk with milk of a completely different quality and past its expiration date. It was even ruder of him to drink the milk again and put the empty carton back in the refrigerator without bothering to buy fresh milk.

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• #35   Andy

  Sorry, I’m with Lauren. Who “accidentally” puts an empty carton back in the fridge? No one, that’s who.

  Feb 15, 2013 at 7:36 am   rating: 0  
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• #36   kim

  Team Lauren. The guy was being a disrespectful guest. The post of this note was passive aggressive… “weird organic milk”… why is the milk “weird”?? It’s not. Your friend is rude.

  Feb 25, 2013 at 3:50 am   rating: 0  
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