{"id":35165,"date":"2026-09-27T20:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35165"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:06:57","slug":"i-caught-my-roommate-stealing-from-my-fridge-so-i-set-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35165","title":{"rendered":"I Caught My Roommate Stealing From My Fridge\u2014So I Set a Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>My Roommate Kept Stealing My Food\u2014So I Left One Container in the Fridge at 1:40 A.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For weeks, Kayla stole my meal-prepped food and then convinced me I was imagining it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When I confronted her, she even told me I \u201cate too much\u201d and deserved to stay hungry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So I stopped arguing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I placed one container on the middle shelf and filled it with the receipts for everything she&#8217;d stolen, along with one note:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cNow tell me again that I imagined it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">At 1:40 A.M., I heard the refrigerator open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Seconds later, Kayla appeared at my bedroom door holding the container.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But this time, our other roommate was awake too.<\/p>\n<p>And Kayla finally had nowhere left to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Roommate Kept Stealing My Food\u2014So I Left One Container in the Fridge at 1:40 A.M. For weeks, Kayla stole my meal-prepped food and then convinced me I was imagining it. When I confronted her, she even told me I \u201cate too much\u201d and deserved to stay hungry. So I stopped arguing. I placed one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35165\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I Caught My Roommate Stealing From My Fridge\u2014So I Set a Trap&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35167,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions\/35167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}