My rich/spoilt flatmates used loads of gas yesterday and when confronted acted like they didn’t know why.
I said I feel like I’m being lied to and they said it’s disrespectful mentioning honesty.
I’m from overseas and probably like the rest of the world there’s a cost of living crisis here. I live with my gf along with one boy from my course and one girl. To keep it short me and my GF aren’t rich.
We’ve worked since we’ve been old enough to to save for uni and don’t get any handouts from our parents as I said before since were not well off. My flatmates on the other hand are quite wealthy. Neither of them have ever worked and all their money comes from their parents. One of them even has their father paying for their tuition whereas me and my gf are taking out loans like the majority of people.
The issue comes from heating our flat. Right now I find the weather mild but not cold. And I would like to wait as long as possible to put aircon on even at all to save money as it’s so expensive. My gf is of the same nature. However, the other two are insisting it’s too hot and that we “need to compromise”.
Also my gf and I have said we need to be mindful when using appliances showers etc to keep spending low to save for if we really need aircon. However, they aren’t really taking it on board.
Yesterday was the moment when I lost it a little bit. They were the only two awake and when I woke up and went into the kitchen I noticed the meter was on the same amount of usage as we would normally have at the end of a whole day (this was at 12pm) I didn’t say anything even though I was frustrated as I try not to cause conflict.
Then towards the evening, they asked if we can put the aircon on. (This would be the first time putting it on). I tried to explain that we were gonna wait until a couple of days later when it got hotter.
But they weren’t having it and we’re complaining it’s too hot. So I then asked about the meter and what they had done to cause it to be so high and tried explaining that we can’t have aircon and also be careless as neither me or my gf can afford it.
They insisted they didn’t know and that they didn’t do anything differently and didn’t even seem to care or be bothered. This is when I said that I feel like I’m being lied to as there’s no way our meter would read much higher than normal on it’s own. They then said I was being disrespectful by mentioning honesty and made me out to be a bad person for that. It’s been one day since and I haven’t spoke to either of them. We’ve all ignored each other.
I feel like they’re annoyed at me and my gf for not wanting to put aircon on. Which is understandable as they’re cold. However we cannot afford to be air-coning the flat anywhere near as much as they’d like and I don’t think they understand that there’s a crisis right now.