this is long…but i woke up all pissed off today and need to rant…
My douchebag of a roomate won’t give me money toward the $300+ electric bill that was due Monday, or the $70 cable bill that was also due Monday.
We’ve been splitting everything 50/50 for 2 years…up untill recently…
We had a mini argument about it last night. And I’m talking to him about it again tonight, because even though I’ve been giving him money toward the bills in his name up untill 1 month ago, he hasn’t given me anything this year so far.
I go to school all week, and intern at a design studio 2 days a week, which gives me about $60 a week to live off of and no other income/help. He got fired from Jiffy Lube 3 months ago for being late every day for 3 years, and now, at 28 years old his mommy and daddy are paying ALL his bills, his way through school, and giving him money every week for what he would have made from Jiffy Lube.
And he refuses to give me money for bills. And mind you I was supplying groceries and nessescities(lightbulbs,toiletpaper,detergent,toothpaste etc etc) this whole time. I did however cut him off from all the food in the house Ive bought. So after approaching him yet again last night, he throws in my face that he’s been "doing me a favor by not making me pay him for the gas and internet/phone bills for the past 2 months…"and that he knows I don’t have any money, and that “he doesnt either” so we’re “even”.
Our electric bill is about $351 because with my income, I haven’t been able to pay the entire amount all at once, so it’s been adding up and adding up for months now, and as much as I remind him of that, he never pays me.
So last night after trying to convince him to give me something!anything! that i can put toward the electric bill and cable that he begged me to sign up for a few months ago- he aboslutely believes we’re even since he’s been paying the small gas bill which we only pay towards stove/hotwater, and the phone/internet…which NOBODY EVER uses the phone, which we pay caller ID, call waiting etc etc on so it’s a complete waste, but he refuses to get rid of it.
At one point I said “Well since you think we’re even, what are you going to do when they shut the electricity off? Then where will we stand?”
He replied something along the lines of “Well if you want the internet and phone to get shut off and not have any gas to cook with then well uh…uh fine! Then what will YOU do?”
To which I replied “The phone and internet and stove won’t be of any use anyways once the electricity gets shut off, because we won’t have any damn electricity to run the refidgerator to store the food to cook with the stove! And the cordless phone won’t work without electricity! And the computer wont even turn on to use the internet!!!”
Yet he refused.
So I figure if he wants to play “we’re even” games I should:
- unscrew every single light bulb in the entire place and just store them away in a secret place for my own use.
- collect all 5,000 extension cords strung all over the place powering his hundreds of electronic gadgets and gizmos and 4 computers, and 3 phones that nobody uses, mini fridge that’s always stocked with beer even though he’s “sooo broke” etc etc.
- unhook the cable goin to all 4 tvs except for the one in my bedroom.
- remove all his food from the fridge, which is powered by my electricity.
- make sure a switches in the breaker box providing him power are shut off at all times…too bad we dont have the old fashioned fuse boxes…
And god knows he’s not going to shut off the itnernet on his own will…or the hot water, so I win.
Is this reasonable? Because if things go sour tonight, thats my game plan.