Ticked: The Continued Story of the Communal Refridgerator

[debka_notion]

Item 1: Early this semester, I went grocery shopping, put my groceries in the communal hall fridge, since I thought my former roommate was coming to pick up her fridge any day. By about a week later, three of my 7 yoghurts had been stolen.

Item 2: Last week, I made a fruit salad to bring to a Shabbat lunch. I put the bowl in the communal fridge, by the next day at lunch time, the bag around the bowl had been ripped open, and all the peaches but two slices had been stolen out and eaten presumably, and the rest of the salad had been mixed (in an attempt, perhaps, to hide the theft- heh).

Item 3: Went to retrieve the bowl from the fridge so I could empty the left over fruit salad and use it to make a new one of the same for tonight's dinner. THis time, they've frickin' stollen my Bowl. What the heck could someone want with a cheap large mixing bowl? Guess I'm making fruit salad in two small bowls instead. Grr.

Comments

[skyblue-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Have you tried labeling stuff (i.e., Maya, Room#, do not touch) or talking to your CA? Or, if Tova has a refrigerator, maybe you could use hers?

Good luck. I'd offer some space in my refrigerator, but I don't think that would help so much.

[jessebeller.livejournal.com]

item 1: theres no d in refrigerator

item 2: college students are damn dirty thieves

item 3: labels, as suggested by skyblue_dreamer, often work really well. they manage to remind the sticky fingered bastards that, you know, things dont just show up in the communal frig with no owner.

item 4: maybe you should hatch some elaborate scheme to catch someone stealing your food

item 5: failing that, write up a bitchy paragraph or twelve about it being a communal frig, not a communist frig and how people need to have some goddamn respect for other peoples things and tape it up all over whatever communal space it is that houses the communal frig

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Ah, the tragedy of the commons...

Hey, you could try lecturing them about economic theory until they run away in fear.