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One Reddit user was unhappy when his girlfriend's friend asked if she could come over “just to use our kitchen.”
“I barely know her and this is not an emergency,” a Reddit user named “Pikachu930” recently wrote.
“But what made it even weirder was that my girlfriend told me we should be flattered that her friend chose us over someone else. That really got to me – it felt like we had the right to say no, as if we were supposed to say yes out of politeness?”
The friend also lives in a dorm and follows a meal plan, the Reddit post's author said.
“It's not that she didn't have other options,” he said. “She just suddenly wanted to cook something and decided her dorm kitchen was too ugly.”
“It's not like she didn't have other options,” a man shared about his girlfriend's friend (not pictured) on Reddit. “She just suddenly wanted to cook something and decided her dorm kitchen was too ugly.” (iStock)
Another concern for the Reddit user was that “this was not a request for a social meeting at all.”
“It wasn't like, 'Hey, do you want to cook together sometime?' or 'Can we meet up and cook?'” Pikachu930 wrote.
“It was literally, 'Can I use your kitchen to cook?' That's all. There was no invitation to spend time together, just a one-sided request to use our space.”
The man noted that he uses the kitchen “99% of the time.”
“I cook almost all the food and wash the dishes, so I feel like it's my personal space in the house,” he continued.
“For me, it's not just a shared kitchen. It's a place where I do what I love and where I take care of both of us. So letting someone else use it, especially someone I don't know very well, is not something I can just accept.”
When the man shared his thoughts with his girlfriend (both not pictured), she told him he was “overdoing it and being rude to her friend.” (iStock)
However, his girlfriend said he was “overdoing it and being rude to her friend.”
He began to wonder if he was being too sensitive, adding that he wouldn't have minded if it had been a one-time request. However, his girlfriend wanted to use the kitchen “for a whole week, including sharing our fridge” to cook dishes like chicken breast and avocado toast.
“This is absolutely absurd. Say no.”
Most of the platform's users seemed to side with Pikachu930, commenting that he “isn't the one in the wrong for not wanting to share a kitchen with a stranger for a week.
“The so-called friend should just curb her desires and take care of her kitchen,” one user noted.
“Absolutely not,” agreed another. “She can cook chicken in an hour, she can make avocado toast in her dorm kitchen – this is just absurd. This is an inappropriate request that makes no sense. Say no.”
However, another user suggested that it was a “perfectly normal request.”
“You won't be wrong to refuse.”
“Dorm kitchens are terrible for people who actually like to cook,” a commenter noted. “It seems a little weird that your girlfriend said you should be 'respected.' Is this girl really a great cook or is that a compliment to your cooking?”
The same commentator also stressed that ultimately the decision is his.
“It's probably just someone who enjoys cooking as an outlet and has really missed it since moving into the dorms,” he said.
“If she respects the space and cleans up after herself, it would be kind to let her
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