This was a damn good story. Well played. I think you handled yourself well. Should be an interesting conversation with your Chinese housemate, “So I caught this chick stealing food, and she says you did it…” Keep us updated.
Important question: Does anyone in the building smoke reefer?
If so, i have just severely shortened your list of primary suspects.
Sounds like you have a munchie-fiend in the premise.
Here is what I don’t understand.
From some of your other posts, you have some electronics knowledge.
It costs a couple of dollars to set up a hand-made motion sensor and rig it to an LED. You time how long it takes to get from your room to the common area, and then allow a suitable amount of time for the thief to actually take the food. You could even make a very small motion sensor that is affixed to the refrigerator door, which communicates wirelessly with a receiver in your room. Then you would know when someone actually started to take food. Perhaps you indicated the distance from the common area to your room, and it is too far.
Anyway, this would have the further advantage that no one would have to know that you had set it up… you could casually walk into the kitchen as though you had appeared there by chance.
[quote]dirtbag wrote:
Story about shitting in food with his mom[/quote]
I’m intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
/Bringing other forum cliches to T-Nation!
//Fark slashies!
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
This was a damn good story. Well played. I think you handled yourself well. Should be an interesting conversation with your Chinese housemate, “So I caught this chick stealing food, and she says you did it…” Keep us updated. [/quote]
This story sounds like one of those PUA opinion openers.
“So I have this friend who loves to cook, and spends lots of money on food, but someone keeps stealing it from the common area. Then he catches this hot girl in the kitchen at 4am, who claims that she was looking for a whisk to make mashed potatoes (&c). So do you think he whussed out, and she’s actually the thief?”
[quote]nephorm wrote:
Gambit_Lost wrote:
This was a damn good story. Well played. I think you handled yourself well. Should be an interesting conversation with your Chinese housemate, “So I caught this chick stealing food, and she says you did it…” Keep us updated.
This story sounds like one of those PUA opinion openers.
“So I have this friend who loves to cook, and spends lots of money on food, but someone keeps stealing it from the common area. Then he catches this hot girl in the kitchen at 4am, who claims that she was looking for a whisk to make mashed potatoes (&c). So do you think he whussed out, and she’s actually the thief?”[/quote]
(drops pants)
[quote]nephorm wrote:
Gambit_Lost wrote:
This was a damn good story. Well played. I think you handled yourself well. Should be an interesting conversation with your Chinese housemate, “So I caught this chick stealing food, and she says you did it…” Keep us updated.
This story sounds like one of those PUA opinion openers.
"So I have this friend who loves to cook, and spends lots of money on food, but someone keeps stealing it from the common area. Then he catches this hot girl in the kitchen at 4am, who claims that she was looking for a whisk to make mashed potatoes (&c). So do you think he whussed out, and she’s actually the thief?[/quote]
faces target
…you probably steal food all the time huh? You’ve got that thief vibe going…"
disregards target
[quote]nephorm wrote:
Here is what I don’t understand.
From some of your other posts, you have some electronics knowledge.
It costs a couple of dollars to set up a hand-made motion sensor and rig it to an LED. You time how long it takes to get from your room to the common area, and then allow a suitable amount of time for the thief to actually take the food. You could even make a very small motion sensor that is affixed to the refrigerator door, which communicates wirelessly with a receiver in your room. Then you would know when someone actually started to take food. Perhaps you indicated the distance from the common area to your room, and it is too far.
Anyway, this would have the further advantage that no one would have to know that you had set it up… you could casually walk into the kitchen as though you had appeared there by chance.[/quote]
I thought about that. But my room is the farthest from the kitchen, so hooking up the kitchen would require a dozen meters of wiring or so. Then comes concealing it which is a summer project on its own. As to making something that communicates in wireless, that would cost considerably more than a couple of dollars. But yeah, your scenario would be perfect to catch her red-handed and demand restitution (nah, not in nature you perv!).
And just to get this out of my chest, there’s this Swede in my floor that assured me that the thief couldn’t possibly be Swedish. Shit, when trying to figure out who it was, he took Today, coming into the building, I looked at the girl’s name on her mailbox and it’s Johansson. Racist motherfscker!