I share a place with 3 roommates so 4 people in total and since we only have one fridge, we split the fridge into 4 equal sections with the remaining door space being shared between all 4 of us. A couple days ago, I opened the fridge and noticed a milk jug in the shared section that looked inflated with an expiration date of early February.
Seeing that it’s been more than a month past its expiration date, I took it out of the fridge and put it next to the trash thinking nothing of it.
Fast forward a couple days and one of my roommates asks who took his milk out of the fridge with a somewhat angry tone to which I responded saying it was me. After coming back home, my roommate started confronting me about it saying that it’s disrespectful to touch other people’s stuff without their permission and I should have told him before throwing it out.
I respond to that by saying that the milk has been expired for more than a month now so it’s fair game to throw out and it was wasting shared fridge space that I needed for my own groceries. He tells me that he apparently “used it a couple days” and “it was fine” which I don’t completely believe because the milk jug looked like it might explode and was definitely sour after a month of being expired.
This back and forth goes on for a bit where he eventually tries cornering me into apologizing which I downright refused to do since it seems completely nonsensical to say sorry for throwing out what should be unusable milk.
For some context, this same thing happened a few months ago where his milk was sitting in the fridge for so long that the liquid and solid were separating from each other and I threw that one away without saying anything and no one took issue with it.
Now, me and him currently aren’t talking at all and it’s making me think if I did anything wrong because I feel like this isn’t even debatable. AITA?
NTA, it was expired and its milk it cost like 4 bucks tops.
dude, if it’s expired by a month, it’s practically a science experiment. next time just leave a post-it that says “not my problem” on it.
NTA. Next time you could communicate that you threw it away but caring for the communal space in a fridge is his responsibility that he did not fulfill and you are fully justified to take that into your own hands.
NTA
Next time, just tell them. If they still don’t remove the offending item then tell them that it’s evolving and needs eviction or you will have to consider whether it needs to start paying rent.
If it’s bloated and out of date then it’s time throw it out.
NTA. There are a lot of foods that can be used safely after the listed expiration date. Milk is not one of them.
Should have just put that most recent milk container straight into the trash instead of next to it.
Say fine im sorry but if it happens again i want to see you drink it
Who threw out my chunky lemon milk
I really don’t think you’re, but you should have informed the other person that your milk is spoiled and asked him to throw it out. You could have avoided this situation by doing that.
I share a fridge but I will throw something out without asking if it’s obviously gone off e.g.veg that has started to turn to mush or stuff that is making an awful smell because it has gone off… I’m not gonna wait for milk to explode to throw it out. NTA – but offer to buy more milk as a peace offering.
NTA, it is human to through away something that has expired and clearly is not looking usable anymore, but I suggest, if he is keeping old milk again, ask him to kindly drink a cup infront of you just so that he can confirm it is not worth throwing out and only then will you not touch his old milk again 🤣
NTA. It might be time to post rules about what can/cannot be in the fridge, starting with expired food. How long the owner has to dispose of it before it’s summarily thrown away. That’s just disgusting. I have a work mini fridge that we had to post rules for. Someone kept putting sodas in the top door shelf right next to the freezer where they froze and exploded. Making a huge mess. It stopped only when we posted rules and started removing the sodas.
NTA if it’s in the shared area of the fridge it’s fair game. Even if it’s in their area of the fridge, if it’s at risk of contaminating the rest of the space it’s also fair game e.g. if it popped the lid after overexpanding. Also, this is clearly just someone trying to pick a fight, no one is actually drinking severely sour milk. I can’t imagine what purpose they had for it but if it’s some sort of project they need to label that crap.