有一個小偷, or don’t put your food in the common room

We have a thief on our floor. I live in a dorm with 2 other girls, but I have my own room and we share a bathroom. There are maybe 100 people on our floor, a resident assistant, and the chaplain. And we all share the common room, which has a kitchen, a fridge, a little dining area, and a living area with a TV (that we never use because the university is too cheap to provide us with cable..the damn box has ONE channel).

Now, the story begins with the common room kitchen fridge. Most people have their own little baby fridges in their room, but a freezer is expensive and hard to come by. Most mini-sized fridges have a freezer the size of small textbook–there’s not much you can fit in there. so many people take to storing stuff like waffles, fish, shrimp, meat, and the like in the common room freezer. This was all good and dandy until some asshole stole one girl’s 1 lb bag of shrimp….and then somebody took one guy’s chicken…and then $50 worth of my roommate’s groceries disappeared.

I have put food in the freezer too, but seeing as meatless tofu sausages aren’t that appealing to most people, it has remained untouched. I knew that if they were touched, though, I’d be devastated though. Like my roommates, I have NO meal plan because it’s cheaper not to buy food at the cafeteria but to grocery shop. I also don’t have the money buy food after it’s stolen– I get paid from my office job on a biweekly basis, and I grocery shop when I get paid. My roommates are in the same position. When my one roommate’s food was stolen, she had nothing to eat for 2 weeks but the food that my other roommate and I cooked and shared with her. Things like this shouldn’t happen. What about people who have no roommates? Or whose roommates aren’t so giving? What do they do when their food is stolen?

I keep daydreaming about catching the thief while walking past the common room, and bitch-slapping them up. What they are doing is so heinous. My roommates and I have brainstormed ways of how to keep this person out. We even bought small plastic cockroaches at a Halloween store and stuck them inside her waffle box to deter people from taking them. The person still helped themselves to a few waffles AND some tilapia. And I mean, WHEN does this person cook their food? How do you steal 16 ounces of shrimp and get away with cooking them????? How do you STORE that much shrimp, in the first place??? This person must have a freezer in their room.

I’m so frustrated UGH!

~ by goldleafstrokes on November 9, 2009.