📝 AITA for taking a stand for having a choice in something that I pay for?

By kalhopefullynaho • Score: 3 • April 24, 2025 6:04 AM


This is all very dumb college stuff but humour me for a little while. I am a 21F college student in India and I know we are quite old to be doing all this. I share my hostel room with 3 other girls that are in the same class as me. We have an ac in our room that only gets switched on if we pay for it on a monthly basis. The price is 20k per month, so it obviously gets divided 5k per person per month. So we decided to take the AC for two moths for the summer before we leave for the summer break. Now there are a lot of things to unfold here so try to focus. The layout of the room is a rectangle and there are 4 single bends in each corner with personal desks and closet space. The ac is on the window side wall.

The person that we are going to talk about about let’s call her Tina is the occupant of Bed 3 and I am the occupant of Bed 4 and the AC I admit doesn’t (for lack of a better term) blow direct air on my and Tina’s bed. But it blows direct air on Bed 1 and 2. The AC gets the room pretty cool. Now there was already some tension between Tina and the occupants of bed 1 and 2 (and me too) let’s call them roomie 1 and 2. Roomie 1, 2 and me are pretty good friends and we used to be friends with Tina too but there were some things that happened that made us dislike her( not dumb shit, we are convinced she is a kleptomaniac and steals from our stuff when we are not in the room also she purposefully makes it a point to make a lot of noise when others are sleeping just to irritate us and it is borderline torture) we had communicated to her about it but there was not outcome.( and mind you this is the end of our third year living together but whatever). Anyways she feels that the AC temp is too warm to her liking and roomie 1 and 2 think that her liking is too cool for them. I don’t have a lot of opinion in this matter; as long as I’m not sweating idc. There are solutions for this but because she is dumb and immature she never came and talked to us about it, she just sneakily reduces the temp ever chance she gets, this includes staying up till everyone is asleep to reduce the temp and then go to sleep. So one day roomie 2 was up and Tina didn’t realise and she did her usual thing and went outside for something. While she was outside roomie 2 changed the temp and hid the remote in the common area. When Tina returned she tried to find the remote and couldn’t, so she decided to wake everybody put a bright ass flash in our eyes and interrogate us on where the remote was. She eventually found the remote and reduced the temp. Atp roomie 2 was pissed and switch off the AC from the main switch. This made Tina furious and she started shouting at the top of her lungs and saying demeaning shit that had nothing to do with the situation and then roomie 2 reciprocated but I believe it was pent us energy from both sides. We could have easily come to a common ground like switching beds or something but that would mean her getting her ego hurt apparently, means that she agreed to make an adjustment and her not getting exactly as she wants. I tried to resolve the fight and tried to hear both sides of the argument but there was no solution. From the next day she convinced some dumbass people from our class to bully us(yes we are 21 year old college kids) and she does not do it because she is the “victim” in this situation. It has been a pain in the ass to attend classes and also to stay in our own room because her lowlife immature friends are in the room all the time treating as though it is their room not letting us sleep and stay in peace. Again I agree this is something that kids do.

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