Testing the limits of my generosity

[BierMuncher]

They’re like puppies.

Swat em on the nose with a newspaper and yell…”NO….Bad roommates….BAAAD roommates…”

 

[Klainmeister]

They’re like puppies.

Swat em on the nose with a newspaper and yell…”NO….Bad roommates….BAAAD roommates…”

I tried that with my roommate...





Still pisses on the f***** floor.

 

[c.n.budz]

I can't really blame my roommate since he never paid attention to how much they were drinking. Now that I've said something to him he said he'll keep an eye on them, unfortunately that doesn't get me my beer back...

Moral of the story: When you happily live alone and one of your friends says "My lease is up. Can I rent your spare bedroom?" Say NO!!!

 

[mrfocus]

Get some old corona light, leave it in the sun for a few weeks, then transfer it to your bottles, but add a teaspoon of Splenda to each bottle before capping.

Chill those puppies, and then leave them where they will be picked up. Heheheheh.

I like that idea the best. I would do it even if your friend talks to them. Honestly, if they drink it, it's their own damn fault.

Another good one is the yeasty beer...

Glad to know you're getting somewhere with the problem.

I have a friend who is incredibly cheap, that may be their problem. I've invited him over to my house for nights of drinking on me and when I go over to his house I can barely get a glass of juice if I asked for it.

 

[beervision]

Kill them and bury them next to the highway.

 

[McKBrew]

Just be a dick. A big dick. I wish I knew more decent people to share good beer with, and you have these a-holes that criticize your beer, waste it, but still have no problem drinking it when they run out of pisswater.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Seems to me that the consensus is to do the following (with varying amounts of time, patience, and/or repetition between steps):

Step 1: Confront the moochers (with your choice/brand of volume and violence).

Step 2: Demand money.

Step 3 (with a bit of my own spin): Disconnect the kegs from the tap, put as many bottles as you can in the kegerator, and lock its door. Put the rest of your bottles in the back of the fridge. Put a case or two of cheap beer in front of it.

Step 4: Demand money for the cheap beer that is now gone.

Step 5: Take the cost of the kegerator door repair and as much of your ingredient bill as you feel appropriate out of the rent payment.

Step 6: Get a new roommate after kicking the present one squarely in the groin.

 

[Philip1993]

when they run out of pisswater.

Reading this just made me realize that drinking your beer is not the problem, it's the symptom. The root problem is that they are out of pisswater. That's a simple problem to remedy. Grab a few corona bottles, some caps, and your capper. RDWHAFHB, and then (with careful aim) replenish their supply. I think you will find that they no longer take your beer.

 

[Glibbidy]

Step 6: Get a new roommate after kicking the present one squarely in the groin.

That is just not right.
Please be cognizant of this, as well as the golden rule.

IB4TL

 

[Yuri_Rage]

IB4TL

Really? Are we getting that out of hand?

 

[Glibbidy]

Absolutely. How would you like it if someone kicked you in the groin?
What if they were mistaken?
I'm just saying we should all consider playing nice in this forum. We deserve it.

 

[user 574]

Quite frankly I'd be a bit rude. Hell I've done it with some of my friends. When most my buds come over now they still bring something even though they'll probably only drink my beer.

You need to negotiate making them mules for the next brewday as you sit in a lounge chair drinking what they brought once they understand the rules of (beer) engagement. Maybe they'll understand & appreciate the process but it sounds like that'd be doubtful. If they decline; stay the fruck away from my HB then.

 

[Glibbidy]

Maybe I'm being a tad to sensitive tonight.

 

[olllllo]

Is it possible that this would be a metaphorical kick in the groin?

 

[the_bird]

Ya think, Glib?

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Absolutely. How would you like it if someone kicked you in the groin?
What if they were mistaken?
I'm just saying we should all consider playing nice in this forum. We deserve it.

I was kinda kidding...

However, I guess I haven't been playing very nice today (reference a certain closed thread). I'll go sit in the corner for a while.

Let's all have a beer and hug. Well, maybe not hug. But let's have a beer.

 

[sudbuster]

I'm usually all about sharing but these idiots are cut off until they bring over a few cases or until I hand them a good solid beating...

rant over...

I read this entire thread and can't get over how times have changed. Some folks today think the world owes them. The welfare society.... you know. When i was 6, my friends were breaking my toys. My Dad told me to not come home 'till i took some blood. well i finally came home, some of the blood was mine, but i felt good. No more broken toys......

 

[EdWort]

When i was 6, my friends were breaking my toys. My Dad told me to not come home 'till i took some blood. well i finally came home, some of the blood was mine, but i felt good. No more broken toys......

LOL, I remember those days. I raised my kids the same way. Both are well adjusted, with good grades, no drug problems, pregnancy, disrespect, etc.

Now everyone is worried about self esteem, so we have ended up with a generation of narcissistic kids who know nothing about sacrifice or principle.

 

[ScubaSteve]

I vote for the "Mace In Your Face" IPA instead...

+1. Let them be the beta testers!

 

[Bernie Brewer]

The thing is, these people have no idea how much work is involved in the beer they're drinking. They think that you just wiggle your nose and there it is. If they had any clue how hard you worked to get that brew completed, maybe they wouldn't act that way. My friends are the same way. I'm all about sharing too, that's one of the joys of brewing, but when somebody whines that the beer is gone already, you just want to throttle them.

 

[Ryanh1801]

The thing is, these people have no idea how much work is involved in the beer they're drinking. They think that you just wiggle your nose and there it is. If they had any clue how hard you worked to get that brew completed, maybe they wouldn't act that way. My friends are the same way. I'm all about sharing too, that's one of the joys of brewing, but when somebody whines that the beer is gone already, you just want to throttle them.

Well put. That why you make them brew with you.

 

[Brew Runner]

I like the sun-skunked Corona idea. I found a bottle of Corona outside of a mineshaft here in the SoCal desert. It must have been there no less than a month and it was scratched up like it had been run over, but didn't break(soft dirt road). I thought it was a novel find and took it home. I knew it would be undrinkable and had no intention, but it nearly knocked me over at arm's length when I uncapped it!

Regarding the golden rule....I thought it went something like "treat others as they have treated you."

I think that playing the mean one is often a necessary evil. Having the roommate tell them about something you said is nowhere near as effective as face-to-face confrontation....especially if they don't know you well enough to feel comfortable around you.

 

[c.n.budz]

I think that playing the mean one is often a necessary evil. Having the roommate tell them about something you said is nowhere near as effective as face-to-face confrontation....especially if they don't know you well enough to feel comfortable around you.

True, but at least then they will have been warned so they'll have no excuse when I lay into them.

As for having them brew with me... The guy who is the bigger mooching offender is a slob with an aversion to deodorant, he'd probably just infect my beer...

 

[njnear76]

Respect is a two way street. There is no benefit to being nice to people who don't respect you. Ban the jerks from your house. Make your roommate pay the beer tab.

The way you are treated in life has everything to do with the way you behave and the aurora that you give off. I'm not saying that you brought this upon yourself.... I'm just saying that you can prevent this type of stuff from happening in the future. Take it from some one who used to be way too generous and nice.

 

[BierMuncher]

...I like the sun-skunked Corona idea...

I'm pretty sure Yuri will leave me out of the group hug for this one...

 

[ArroganceFan]

Let us know how things turn out and what you decide to do.

I read this entire thread and can't get over how times have changed. Some folks today think the world owes them. The welfare society.... you know. When i was 6, my friends were breaking my toys. My Dad told me to not come home 'till i took some blood. well i finally came home, some of the blood was mine, but i felt good. No more broken toys......

I know. Ever heard of the cycle of democracy? This is interesting and scary at the same time. Also, check out the quote on the bottom of the page.

 

[Neomich]

You get better results with a kind word and a baseball bat than you do with just a kind word.

Meaning, ask nicely but make sure they understand there are some serious consequences if the situation is not remedied to your liking. I don't know about the state laws where you live, but here if someone's in your place of residence and attempts to 'steal' your property, you can use ANY force necessary to secure your property. You did not give them permission to take your beer = stealing.

On a lighter note, locking that thing down might be the best bet. I like sharing with my friends too but you have to protect your investment. One of my buddies has a very large selection of hard liquor and it's beers at my place, mixed drinks at his.

Or, ask the guys to pick you up a bottle of Grey Goose in exchage for tap privileges. I bet those kegs last longer then.

 

[Evan!]

Among all the things that have been discussed, I think I like the "trap" idea the best. But filling a bottle with piss...or worse, corona...is enough to get them to take one good sip before they spit it out and look in the back of the fridge for something good. No, what you need is a delayed-effect trick.

Now, these guys sound like douchies of the highest degree. So if it were me, I'd pull out the stops on dem bitchez: First, find some way to disable your keg. A valve, as someone else suggested, might work. Or disconnect it. I'm no kegger, so I don't know the best way of doing it.

Next, when you're bottling your next batch of something strong & full of flavor, set aside a sixer for these nitwits. Add some ex-lax to those particular bottles. I don't know what exactly this will do to the beer itself, but with any luck, the douchies will spend the afternoon on the shi*ter courtesy of you. Next time you see them, make a nice snide comment to let them know it was your beer.

...

Either that, or just tell them that the next time they steal your beer without asking and/or paying, you're gonna stick your racking cane so far up their ass, they'll be siphoning nasal fluid out their anus.

 

[olllllo]

At this point the only strategy that makes sense to me is to employ the "Bug Music" strategy used by the Flintstones and the Gruesomes to get rid of the Hatrocks.



"I said ya ya ya, She said ya ya ya, We said ya ya ya, AAAHHHH" (repeat forever)

 

[jbreiding]

Sounds like a lot of suggestions that would require a lot of work, much easier to just tell them to f*ck the f*ck off and not to touch your $hite ever again..