Hi, me ( 20 ) and my mom ( 43 ) live together, and my mom gotten mad at me tonight for leaving food out in the open, let me explain
Our kitchen is filled with cockroaches, it’s easy for the food to get contaminated because of cockroaches cuz they roam around everywhere on the platform. Hence, why we try to keep things off the platform or secure in such a way that the cockroaches can’t reach inside of it
I had eaten dinner before mom cuz I was hungry and she had told me she was going to eat it later, i served myself and i had made sure to close the carousel that had the food in it. But apparently I had forgotten to close it cuz I was too focused on my phone and cockroaches got all over the food, an hour later my mom went into the kitchen ( the light was turned off and idk how cuz i remember not turning off the light ) and she got super mad as she started yelling at me and as my mom was yelling at me for being irresponsible, I thought that as she leaves the kitchen, I’ll make her something to eat.
She didn’t like that idea and kept being mad at me and yelled at me to not make anything for her to eat and i quote " if you wanted me to not starve, you’d have been more responsible ", I still started to prep but she shut that down going " i won’t eat it at all ", I said " fine " and started keeping things back in their place and went to my room and locked the door.
I feel very guilty cuz my memory is not serving me rn, did i turn off the kitchen light? Did I keep the carousel lid off? I genuinely don’t know ( I was sure that I kept it on, but maybe I’m wrong ) so aita?
EDIT: okay yeah i actually don’t know if I was on my phone when I was serving myself the food? ( I was watching b99 and I had connected it to my speaker and I didn’t wanna bring the speaker along with me so I kept my phone outside )
I did bring my phone along when I went to put my dish in the sink
Info!
Are yall doing anything about the roaches?
OK you people need adult social care services or something, not reddit. This is not a normal way to live. Hoping you’re just some edge lord troll but if this is at all real get help. Now.
If it’s just you and your mom in the house then it’s pretty obvious you must have been the one to do all that. No one is going to break into your home, turn off the kitchen light and open containers of food but not take anything. Maybe you felt like your mom overreacted but you are TA here
Put down your phone and close the carousel. YTA
YTA-get off your phone and pay attention to what you are doing. Nothing on your phone can be that important.
Info: What steps are you taking to get rid of cockroaches?
I think this was a mistake but yeah, Yta even if you didn’t mean to be.
There are pages and pages of research from multiple studies on phones affecting memory. Put your phone down when you’re doing things so you can pay attention. You know you have a cockroach problem. You know it’s imperative to store your food well.
YTA. Focus on the task at hand and leave the phone off while you are in the kitchen.
YTA maybe spend less time on your phone and more looking at the world around you and your mom’s dinner wouldn’t be ruined
You are not some small child and this isn’t a new problem you were unaware of. It baffles me that you think she shouldn’t be upset with you. I also don’t know who else you’re trying to blame. The bugs didn’t leave the lid off the dish
Get rid of the roaches!! Use boric acid mixed with sugar or Parmesan cheese and put it in jar lids in several places. They eat the boric acid and they drink water and it kills them. Works for ants too. They take it back to their nest and it wipes out the whole colony.
i feel like this isn’t a question of who’s TA but moreso… why are you living in a roach infested house? like, this is very concerning and not normal. your landlord needs to fumigate the property if pest control hasn’t solved the issue, it’s illegal for your landlord to leave you in a pest-infested property.