My roommate made a post about wanting her deposit back while ditching me in the middle of our verbal agreement to be an AuPair since I’m the only one on the lease, you may have seen it. I have her blocked here, and I want to ask for judgement as to what happened today.
My (22f) roommate (21f) and I have been friends for 10 years, but grew apart for the past 4(ish) years and reconnected last year when we decided to be roommates.
Our water heater runs on propane, and we call a gas company when we do so they can refill our tank, I usually do this part and she pays half, but today it ran out and I wouldn’t have availability until Saturday, so she chose to do it herself.
When the company came, she kept messaging me asking how everything was done, we have lived here for 6 months and the tank needs to be refilled once a month, I have always done it myself but explained to her how to do it several times, and it really bugged me for her to message me while I was at work asking everything as if it was complicated when all she had to do was open one door and pay. She then kept messaging me because a neighbor yelled at her for opening said door wrong, and she said the door wasn’t working (no other neighbor, the gas company or myself have ever had this issue) and hinted at me to fix it somehow… while I was at work
When I got home, everything smelled of propane, naturally I was freaking out and ran to the water heater and saw she left it open… without a flame because it ran out before the gas company refilled it.
I sent her a message to let her know, and she said “but the flame was off” and I told her it was still open, so there was still a flow. She then asked “are you sure that’s why it smells like that?” And I started explaining everything again, when she said “dude chill, I didn’t know that’s how the heater worked. I already said sorry and that it wouldn’t happen again”. To which I responded “you asked if I was sure, I was answering your question”. And then she said again “I didn’t know how it worked, relax”.
I left her on seen (this happened over text) and opened all doors and windows.
AITAH for being mad about her negligence almost blowing up our apartment… with my two cats and her cat inside? Is her not knowing an excuse?