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Input: This happened at the beginning of the year. My roommate and I were deciding over text which wifi package to get. We have two other roommates who weren’t in the loop at this point. The convo went something like this:

Roommate: We can get the average speed package at X price or get the fastest package for  $50 more annually per person. What do you think?

Me: I’d rather just get the regular wifi package. I don’t want to spend extra money.

Roommate: I just bought the faster package.

Me: What the fuck? We were just deciding together I thought? I dont think I can afford that.

Roommate: Are you kidding me? This is my senior year. I want the fastest wifi. Im not gonna be stuck with shitty connection!

Me: I’m not paying for that shit. You essentially spent my $ without permission. 

Roommate (who is now backtracking): Well, I just bought it for myself. You guys can choose whether or not to join the plan (even though he texted me about what I wanted to do in the first place)

Me: Yeah good luck paying at least twice as much as everyone else each month. Let’s see how long that lasts.

Roommate: [stops responding]

I told him in person he should either cancel the plan or pay everyone’s premium. He refused. He kept trying to frame it as it was his wifi plan that he was willing to let us join, but I pointed out that was complete bullshit because none of us could afford any of the plans on our own and the logistics of having a router in the apartment that not everyone knew the password to are very complicated (roommates are going to find out eventually and it will be awkward when guests ask for the password when other roommates are in ear shot). He knew damn well we were in it together. 

Also, I asked him if I went behind his back and got the cheaper wifi without his agreement, do you think we would be having a similar conversation? He said yes but still refused to nudge at this point. 

In the end, he agreed to pay my premium, but not my roommates, because I brought up all the favors I did for him last year.

AITA for refusing to pay the premium when he went behind my back to get the more expensive wifi plan that he needed everyone to contribute to?





refusing to pay for upgraded wifi with my roommate