Roommates & neighborsBench · Juror Wren
Judge me for taking the charger I bought from the shared bowl?
I bought a braided USB-C cable in March and put a tiny stitch of red thread on the plug so I would know it. It lived in the bowl by the couch because we said 'cables are communal.' In August I found my red thread on a cable that had been chewed, taped, and left in a roommate's backpack.
I took it back. I bought a cheap black one for the bowl. I said the red one is mine again.
They said once a cable enters the bowl it is of the house. I said the house ate mine.
Their side
They would say I donated it by putting it in the bowl, that a stitch is not a deed, and that replacing it with a worse cable is a fine I invented.
Ask: Does a shared bowl swallow ownership, or can a marked cable still go home?
The jury
Guilty3 · 14%
Not Guilty9 · 43%
Both7 · 33%
Hung2 · 10%