I 29f have a roommate 27nb that has a much more active social life than I do. A few weeks ago I was out of town and roommate “RM” asked to bring some friends back after the club. Sure, I’m not there, my stuff is locked away, I trust you, whatever.
I get home 2 days later and there is a ton of stuff leftover that RM doesn’t know where it came from. An oven mitt, nice steel kitchen tongs, 5lbs of frozen chicken nuggets, a cute ladies top (sadly not my size) and a bunch of other small stuff in 2-3 bags. I say it must be your friends that came over, I’m happy to keep it until they can come get it if you are. They say no, they know whose it is and that was rude to leave it especially in the middle of the hall. RM calls and friend says they’ll get it today.
Friend comes by and grabs her top, but says the other stuff is someone else’s, “Jeff” friend leaves and RM calls Jeff, who says he’ll be here within the week to get his shit. RM and I put his stuff in a corner and his chicken nuggets in the freezer.
Jeff never comes.
2 weeks go by and RM and I get groceries. We realize there’s not enough room in the freezer for some things because there’s a 5lb bag of chicken nuggets. We hold off on freezing some stuff and RM calls Jeff. Jeff says “nah dude eat the nuggets, they’re all yours.” RM asks if I want any, and I say duh.
2 more weeks pass and Jeff still has not come for these nuggets. I stop waiting for RM to offer me nuggets and just make them when I want. RM came home one day and gave me a “yas queen” for eating these nuggets without RM having to offer them to me to get me to help eat them.
Now Jeff is calling me a “shady klepto stranger from the internet” because I ate some of the nuggets. To be clear, he’s not upset that he didn’t get any nuggets, he was happy to let RM eat the whole bag. He’s just mad that I was shared with.
AITA for eating these chicken nuggets?
Um, if Jeff’s 🍑 was *SO* concerned about some shady internet stranger eating his nuggets? He could’ve taken them with him or come by to get them! It would take your roommate a long 🍑 time to eat 5 *POUNDS* of chicken nuggets alone before they got freezer burned. NTA and don’t allow Jeff over to your place, again, if this is how he is.
NTA
If someone leaves food in your freezer for a month, they’re relinquishing any claim to that food. He sounds like he has some control issues. Ignore him, and perhaps ask RM not to invite him back again.
NTA
Jeff had over a month to pickup his big-ass bag of frozen chicken nuggets. You gave him ample warning.
Your freezer is not a storage facility.
NTA
Jeff left them to RM so they’re no longer his at this point, it was a “gift” to RM. RM was happy to share them with you, so it’s totally OK to eat those nuggets, lol. So unless [RM.is](http://RM.is) upset you ate them, nothing wrong did happen.
Also why does Jeff know you ate some of his nuggets? Did RM tell him? Jeff sounds like a drama queen, he didn’t want the nuggets anymore, so why he cares who eats them?
NTA
Your apartment isn’t the home of Jeff’s spare refrigerator. He was given more than enough time to pick up his crap.
Frozen chicken nuggets were left in the hallway for long enough that your roommate didn’t know where they came from? And you ate them?
Left for 2 days lol! In an insulated reusable grocery bag, like the DoorDash bags or lunchbox material lol they were still very cold when I pulled them out 2 days later
NTA if Jeff wanted the nuggets, he could’ve gotten them. sounds like free nuggets to me
Jeff didn’t even want the nuggets he told the roommate to have them. The roommate told OP they could have some chicken nuggets so they did and Jeff is upset that OP had some…
If this dilemma brings you to the internet, your life must be truly blessed.
I thought it was blessed with free food until I might have a $10 chicken nugget debt. Now I gotta decide whether $10 goes to this debt or towards groceries this week since Jeff knows where he left the nuggets lol like, I shouldn’t be nervous over nuggets.
NTA does Jeff know what klepto means? You can’t steal something that was offered to you. Is Jeff even upset or just giving you shit?
“Shady klepto stranger from the internet” the audacity, NTA.