AITH for not answering the door after my neighbor kept "borrowing" things?
I've lived in the same apartment for about two years, and my next-door neighbor is friendly enough. We aren't friends, but we chat if we run into each other.
Over the last few months, they've started knocking on my door to borrow random stuff. It started with things like a phone charger or a screwdriver. No big deal.
Then it became laundry detergent, eggs, trash bags, batteries, tape, paper towels... basically whenever they were out of something, they'd knock on my door first.
The weird part is they almost always brought the item back if it wasn't something disposable, so it's not like they were stealing from me. It just got to the point where I'd hear a knock and immediately wonder what they needed this time.
Last weekend they knocked while I was home watching TV. I looked through the peephole, saw it was them, and just... didn't answer. I honestly didn't feel like having another "Can I borrow..." conversation.
About twenty minutes later I got a text from them saying, "I know you're home, your TV is pretty loud."
I felt awkward, so I admitted later that I'd seen them but just wanted a quiet evening to myself.
Now they've barely spoken to me, and another neighbor joked that I could've just taken thirty seconds to help someone out.
I don't think I did anything wrong, but I also wonder if I handled it badly. AITH?