My Roommate Has Been GAMBLING The Rent Money Away

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[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_00] My roommate had been gambling the rent money away. She didn't tell me we got evicted. We have five days to leave. Hope he starts off. I'm still shaking. My roommate's in her mid 70s. Her name is the only name on the lease. I found the room on Craigslist. It was the only place I could afford. Also, I am from a different country. I have debt I'm paying off from me coming here. She's always left me alone.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00] I pay her the money for rent and utilities because everything's under her name. Everything was fine for almost a year. Last month though, she gambled away the rent money. But I thought it wasn't a problem because she said she got a loan from her son. So imagine my surprise today when I found from the sheriff's department a notice to vacate. In five days. I asked what's going on. She gambled away the loan she had gotten from her son. Also last month wasn't the first time she gambled away the rent.

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00] She had done the money she gambled away the $100. She gambled out. She gambled away the $100 total. We had been given a 30 day eviction notice, which she didn't tell me about. There was a hearing, which she didn't tell me about. No one showed up, so the judgment defaulted to the landlord. Now we have five days to vacate. She'll be fine. She's moving in with a friend. Meanwhile, I have no one.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00] i mean it's funny because i was already planning on moving out at the end of the month after two more paychecks i found a room that just requires me to have a thousand dollars to move in but i only have 280 i can't come up with 720 in five days i'm not saying this to ask for money i'm just mentioning this because the irony is so cruel i don't know where i'll sleep i don't have a car also i did contact the police to tell them that my roommate had been stealing from me

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_00] but they called it a civil matter to be brought up in small claims court how can i focus on going to court when i know where i'll be in under a week this is my worst nightmare come true so in the comments i'll just give you a quick overview a lot of people were trying to help out op suggesting different ways that she could potentially get herself out of that situation or at least find some accommodation in the meantime but 17 days later op did update and said so i'd

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00] posted previously that my roommate had been gambling the rent money away for a few months at the very least and got us evicted without telling me i only found out when i discovered a five-day notice to vacate from the sheriff's department on the apartment door well i was homeless for the first time in my life i slept in an unlocked classroom at a nearby university i kept my possessions in a storage unit it definitely wasn't pleasant but i have to recognize people have

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00] had it worse and then a miracle happened yesterday i work at a nursing home and i've become pretty friendly with the daughter of one of the residents i told her what happened to me and guess what she told me well she has a room for rent and is empty anyways why don't i move in and i'll pay her the rent when i get it after the first week of january i'm shocked i genuinely thought i was going to be

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_00] homeless for a lot longer she is so sweet and super kind she even made me dinner i'm so thankful to her i'm still stunned also she helped me move my things in which isn't much just my clothes and laptop basically that's my update i've never felt so elated this was a nightmare at least i have a learning experience and know what to look out for and i am definitely going to focus all my free time

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00] on suing my former roommate thank goodness for that and i'm so glad that op had a happy ending on the back of all of this because that must be an absolutely horrifying situation to find yourself in so quickly as well but what do you guys make of this one let us know your thoughts down in the comments below and let's move on to another story which comes from angry catfish 2019 from the am i the

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00] subreddit and it says am i the arsehole for messing with my sister's fake profile and to give you a trigger warning on this it contains catfishing identity theft invasion of privacy and distribution of another's nudes without consent op says gonna try and make this quick i'm 22 and my sister is 18 i went to my sister's room to grab a top she had borrowed we do this all the time borrow clothes and

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00] go into each other's rooms to get them back and i noticed she has a facebook open and the profile pic is well me i have to do a double take because it really caught me off guard i know i shouldn't have but i snooped at the profile and it was just pictures of myself my sister literally has a fake facebook profile of me i'm livid at this point for many reasons one i don't do social media i'm a private

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00] person and i don't like pictures of me to be on profiles like that two some of the pictures she had were ones she took without me knowing three other pictures that she had were ones i had sent to friends which means she had gone onto my computer and taken the pictures off i delete all of the pictures and i check her computer and find a folder filled with pictures that she has taken of me and ones that were on my computer not even all of me per se one of my friends group photos food i had

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00] taken pictures of i go through even more and i find out that she'd even stolen nudes that i had taken for my boyfriend i deleted the folder completely and went back to the fake facebook profile uploaded a single picture of her with a caption the real me changed her name she was using my middle name and a fake last name and then left her room i've heard her sobbing from her room all day but i'm too angry

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00] and embarrassed to even confront her right now am i the asshole for messing with a profile and not just confronting her in the beginning bloody hell what is going on here your sister stole your identity nicked intimate photos at the same time and is catfishing people as you now of course you're not going to be the asshole in any situation here because considering what's just happened you're incredibly restrained you could have caught the police if you really wanted to she's using your

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00] nudes for crying out loud i would really want answers at this point in time who is she talking to as you and where is those intimate photos ended up and if it comes out with any of this nonsense being a prank or anything like that i wouldn't even be letting her go down that road because that's bullshit libra says info what the fuck and then says not the asshole but seriously what the fuck then grumpy young guy says not the asshole there's seriously something wrong with your sister

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00] she has probably been catfishing using that account and it might even be identity theft depending on how far this goes big time not the asshole kane says all fucking opie's news now on the web for the whole world to see what in the ever loving fuck is wrong with your sister not the asshole addicted to chip says not the asshole whatsoever you could have just confronted her rather than being petty and

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00] uploading a picture of her but i don't think anyone will blame you for that she did much worse to you opie replies saying i agree i know i was childish and petty with that i was just really angry at the time i also was worried that she might continue on with it and just hide it better from me at least this way i have some peace of mind that it's gone i hope kitty loon says better make sure to password

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00] protect your computer or should go back onto it to get the pictures she stole again and someone asked did opie go through the chat logs and opie said a part of me wanted to go through the chat logs but i was so afraid to just thinking about it makes me feel sick so opie did come in to update the post and said i decided to confront my sister since i couldn't stand sitting around with a knot in my stomach as soon as she saw me she started crying and begging me not to tell our parents and saying she was sorry

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00] i told her that i don't think i could ever forgive her and that made me sick to even look at her i asked why she had the fake profile apparently she met a guy one or two years ago on another site and she was too nervous to give him a picture of herself so she sent one of me he really liked the picture and from then on it just snowballed she got deeper into it made the profile and said that she enjoyed all the attention it got her i brought up the nudes and she played dumb at first and then said she must

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00] have accidentally copied them over too i told her i didn't believe her but she's sticking with that i asked her to delete the facebook and got the email and information attached to it so i can change it and make sure she doesn't try to reactivate it she tried to make me feel bad and tell me she was gonna lose a lot of her friends because of this and how that was the reason she did it in the first place at that point i just felt like she only felt bad because she was caught and didn't really care

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00] about my feelings i told her that she was being selfish for only thinking about how this hurt her but never thought about how her lies hurt me she got upset again i left shortly after i saw people mentioning that i should change my passwords on my computer i've done that i've explained the situation to my boyfriend and he offered to let me move in with him which i'm probably going to take him up on i can't be in the house anymore i feel so uncomfortable i feel so paranoid about running

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00] into people that she may have talked to or sent pictures to thank you for people that have sent kind words messages and advice i really appreciate it today has been the worst day of my life hands down the relationship with my sister will never be the same i don't think the uneasiness will ever go away a commenter on the back of this said to op not the arsehole it's wrong no matter why she chose to do that but if she genuinely didn't mean it as a sick prank or way to get back at you and just did it to

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00] have your identity that's obviously not healthy people try to live others lives for a reason maybe because they don't like their own not diagnosing anything by the way i'm not a doctor personally i would apologize about it if she friended people you guys know but if it was a really small account with no friends you don't need to apologize personally i've been told i've been too nice though so maybe i'm not the best apology wise opie says she'd been using it for a while and was pretty active with it lots of

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00] status updates i got tired of scrolling down the profile she had a lot of people added it was like 400 something a lot of them were people i had no idea of but were quite a few people that i wasn't friends with but knew from school slash town i do plan on apologizing as soon as i'm able to calm down a bit and the commenter says i mean she definitely owes you an apology not the other way around also

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00] please post updates once you do talk to her and get an explanation i would be really worried that with her story that it was just one person that she was talking to i mean if she's got 400 people on that account in particular i would strongly suspect that she's talking to others at the same time and those nudes might have been shared with other people as well and it certainly goes beyond the don't tell mom and dad situation it's way worse than that but what do you guys make of

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00] this situation let us know your thoughts down in the comments below and let's move on to another story now our next story comes from a movie thing from the am i the arsehole subreddit it says am i the arsehole for shutting off the movie halfway through and making my boyfriend feel bad my boyfriend wyatt and i always watch movies together every time we have off days that end up on the same day

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_00] especially since the pandemic and we go back and forth on who picks the movie i've noticed he's usually talking through my movie choices either pointing out plot holes or just talking down about the movie in one way or another i never act this way when it's his turn to pick the movie even if i don't care for it like the last movie he chose the fountain i was confused until halfway through and

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00] then bored the rest of the film but i didn't talk during the movie or constantly dump on it either and even at the end when he asked what he thought i said it was all right even though i thought the movie wasn't good it tried to do a bunch of different things all at once and ended up doing nothing but he seemed really fond of it so i didn't want to hurt his feelings but he doesn't seem to have that mindset when it comes to him watching my picks i told him to shush and to just watch the movie

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00] but he just sighs loudly and says they are boring if i tell him to stop he gets all huffy and goes totally silent and usually takes his phone out to play a game or scroll the internet totally ignoring me and the movie it really hurts my feelings and yesterday it was my turn to choose again and i picked a good movie that really hit me hard as a kid i bawled when i first watched it and still tear

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_00] up to this day i told him this movie was special to me but he barely got 10 minutes into it before he started up saying it was boring and childish it's a kid's movie but that doesn't make it boring i was getting upset and before the big part of the movie even got close i just couldn't take it anymore i felt like him acting this way during a super important part would ruin the movie for me maybe forever so i just got up and turned it off he asked what i was doing and i told him i didn't

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00] want to have the movie ruined for me so it was better if i just turn it off he said i was being a baby and to turn it back on i refused and just told him to pick something to watch instead then i sat on the couch he got mad and said if i was going to be dramatic like this then he didn't want to watch anything with me and got up and went to his room and slammed the door this happened the other day and he's been giving me the cold shoulder and when i asked why he said he wants an apology for

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00] making him feel like dirt should i apologize did i really make a huge deal out of a movie Am I the Arsehole i've gotten a lot of comments and im's about asking what the movie i chose was it was Bridge to Terabithia pronunciation i do apologize it's not the best movie ever but it was the first kids movie i watched when i was young that really moved me and made me cry let's face it this

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00] isn't about the movies is it it's about control he's dismissing everything that you care about and then you get punished when you speak up for yourself with a silent treatment the way that he flipped things around when you protected something that was meaningful to you this movie and suddenly you're the bad guy now who owes him an apology because you didn't tolerate that bullshit but lurking says

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00] not the arsehole i can't really say what i want to without violating some of the rules here about being civil so i'll just say that he's treating you like crap from how he's acting your movies are garbage and he gets to rag on them as much as he wants or else you're being childish yet you don't do the same back that's not a basis for a loving relationship if he disrespects you that much and that easily op says it definitely hurts but they're just movies and shouldn't affect me this much

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00] my sister says i'm being too sensitive again i shouldn't let him not liking my movies affect me this much outside it says should doesn't exist op it's just a projection it does affect you this much and that's valid your hurt is real put the effort there not into the voice of should singery says not the arsehole it's understandable you're annoyed and even more so that you didn't

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_00] want an important slash special movie to be ruined by his commentary and making you feel worse for a guy that likes to bash children's movies he seems awfully childish have you tried talking to him about how it makes you feel when he does that would it help op says i've talked to him before about it and he'll usually say he'll try to give my stuff a chance and he does it for a bit before he forgets or something and goes right back to how he was before drink deep says not the arsehole pretty clear that

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00] you're trying to be respectful and he's not won't comment further on that i will recommend moving away from i pick or you pick because it causes this situation polarizing movies that resonate with you with a certain type of person i suggest you come to a movie decision together not only does this meet both your needs you might enjoy a movie that is outside your comfort zone but straddles the line of the things you like hope he says we've tried that but he usually dominated the movie choice

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00] unintentionally so we move to each pick movies so we'd each get a choice drink deep says hate to say it but sounds like this is a bigger problem than picking a movie malachite says not the arsehole he acts like an arsehole when it's your turn to pick and when you decided you had enough and walked away he decides to give you the cold shoulder he should feel like dirt for always putting down your movie choices and being an arse when you walked away to try and avoid conflict info how does he treat you

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00] in other ways does he generally disregard your opinions and tastes or does he respect them if you all get along well in other ways you may have need to make an agreement that he learns to shut it during your movie or you get to give your honest opinion about his movie choices opi says he usually doesn't care about what i like or enjoy not in a disregarding way but in a way he doesn't mind

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00] he sometimes teases me for watching kids cartoons or movies but it usually doesn't bother me which would reply saying dude if he's making you sit through aaron of sky movies he doesn't get to make fun of other people for watching stuff that's actually enjoyable he sounds like a film snob head of slytherin says info do you live together if you do do you have separate rooms also how old are the both of you are you over 18 opi says we don't officially live together but he spends a lot

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00] of time at my place compared to his own mostly because he likes my place better and because he says his roommates are jerks i don't mind so much because when he's not over my place is pretty quiet and i'm 25 and he's 38. komeda says not the arsehole major red flags i see and he's definitely the arsehole and owes you the apology lulabug says i just love how he throws a temper tantrum about

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_00] her being too dramatic you calmly explained he was ruining it for you and in his attempt to tell you how you're overdramatic he acts like a toddler hypocrisy like that makes me laugh and i would have probably done so in front of him and remarked that it's funny how he thinks him being a toddler was going to change how i felt about his ruining my movie and laugh openly all the time at his hypocrisy people like that shouldn't even waste energy engaging or getting mad at you won't fix or change anything

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00] just make yourself tired in the end and one more comment who says he reminds me of the guy that yelled at me for being a drama queen and putting on a little scene for everyone when i talked calmly and he turned red and pounded the table but you know us women always full of drama so opie did update the post and says uh hey final edit i ended up having to call my parents who called the cops on

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00] wyatt i read all the advice from everyone saying he wasn't respecting my interests or me as a person and it got me thinking and stuff i ignored or overlooked before started popping out to me stuff that didn't seem fair to me that i just put up with because i loved him and so many people told me to just break up with him and i could do better but i was in love and he was my first serious boyfriend and i really just wanted to work things out and get through this thing with him so i tried to sit down

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00] and have a serious talk with him just hoping he'd listen this time i told him how he acted made me feel and his behavior during my movie choices ruined the experience for me and i told him i never acted that way during his movies because i know he likes them and i respect him and don't want to be mean or belittle his interests even if they don't interest me about then he told me i was being dramatic again and they were just stupid movies and he tried excusing his behavior by saying my movie choices suck

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00] anyways i was just so tired by this point and wanted some space and quiet to think about where we go from here so i started to ask him to go back to his apartment for the night but he interrupted me by yelling how since i couldn't have my way i was kicking him out it really scared me because he'd never screamed at me before even when he'd raised his voice during arguments he never full-on screamed at me i tried to get him to calm down but he started calling me

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00] a bunch of nasty stuff and even backed me up against the wall grabbed my bicep hard enough to bruise i saw later i panicked and ran to the bathroom and locked it behind me he banged on the door telling me to come out and i was crying and couldn't think of anything else to do but call my parents mum answered and she could hear him screaming and the banging in the background her and dad were freaked out and dad called the cops long story short the cops and my

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00] folks showed up and why it was removed from my apartment my parents told him to not come back or would get a restraining order it's almost 10 30 p.m now i've locked my apartment up and i'm currently staying with my mom and dad for a while thanks for the advice everyone but wyatt and i are pretty much over i think i'm done with this account and i'll be logging off now and it seemed op was indeed done with that account but i'm so glad that op was able to get out of that but they did contact

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00] their parents and the parents acted quickly lots of people pointing out the age gap that op mentioned within the comments she was 25 and he was 38 and had roommates and all this kind of stuff a lot of talk about that in the comments i think the majority of them were just saying absolute bullet dodged in this situation but now i'm going to turn this one to you guys what do you guys make of this one

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