A few years ago during my second year of university me and one of my best friends found a house to live in with three girls we didn't know. They seemed nice to start off with but then again they always do. For the short while everything is hunky-dory.
Fast forward a couple of months to winter and one night is really quite cold in particular. Everyone is home and my friend and I are the last to go to bed and after noticing the heating is completely turned off, I tell him that I'm going to turn the heating up a little before I head up.
I turn the heating up from 17 to about 22 degrees C. That night I sleep like a fucking baby.
In the morning I go downstairs and one of the girls I'm referring to as L (the most horrible one of the three I later realised) promptly approaches and aggressively demands:
L: Who turned the heating on last night?!?! (interrobangs everywhere I'm not even joking)
Me: I did. It was really really cold last night.
L: Are you aware of how much heating costs?! We're all students here we can't just have the heating on all night!
Me: We don't have it on every night. Just last night when it was freezing in this poorly insulated student house. I would've only cost an extra 50p maximum.
L: Well we can't afford it so don't turn the heating on anymore!!
Me: 5 of us live in a house all with student loans and we can't afford heating?! (such interrobangs) So what do we do if we're all freezing our knackers off overnight again?
L: Just wear a fucking jumper!
Well, this was it for me; I just walked away and nothing else was said. I can understand that there will be some households or individuals out there who have to wear a jumper indoors or overnight as a necessity for warmth and I would do too if I was absolutely brassick but we were all from really good backgrounds at a good university and all had student loans. We weren't exactly poor. She wasn't being thrifty with our money she was being unnecessarily tight and with a spiteful attitude to boot.
I bided my time. I thought wait for an opportunity to present itself. Winter had only just begun.
A few weeks later, I've mostly forgotten about it and hear on the news that it is the coldest day of the year and in fact, the coldest day of the year for quite some time (with lows of -6 degrees C overnight). I think nothing more about it until me and by mate go to bed. As we head up the stairs I cast my mind back to the few weeks ago and think, sod this, it's the coldest day of the year, I don't give a shit if she flies off the handle at me in the morning, I'm turning the heating up.
I head downstairs to the kitchen and over to the thermostat. Low and behold, what do I see? The heating has been turned up to maximum! Not just a little bit, the whole way! Now I could've just gone upstairs and left it, I wanted a warm night's sleep as much as anyone but I definitely knew I didn't turn it up and nor did my mate. I then remembered how I was absolutely crucified for my infraction a few weeks back.
I switched the heating completely off. That night I sleep like I'm being stored in a fucking morgue refrigerator.
The next morning I go downstairs and L approaches me very much in the way she did a few weeks ago:
L: Who turned the heating off last night it was fucking freezing!
Me: I did. I noticed the thermostat was on maximum.
L: Why would you do something like that are you fucking mad‽ I couldn't sleep last night it was so cold!
Me: We can't afford to heat the house like that all night and we need to save money. Just like you said.
L: This is fucking ridiculous I didn't say that. What am I going to to I can sleep like that!
Me: Why don't you wear a jumper?
Then it hits her that she did say that to me that few weeks ago, the look on her face confirms it. Task complete I walk off into the proverbial sunset with as many interrobangs as I can carry for the next confrontation. Everyone was sensible with the heating from thereon in. Fucking students.
Submitted July 13, 2016 at 04:38PM by bakerbodger http://ift.tt/29vgLRj pettyrevenge
No comments:
Post a Comment