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Was I justified in my decision?

Asked by RandomMrdan (7436points) September 10th, 2008

About 2 years ago, I had 3 roommates (all men). And as a result the kitchen area, and the dishes were seldom taken care of.

On one particular day, I begin to cook myself some scrambled eggs and make some toast. Shortly after I begin to make my food, my roommate Mike starts to make himself some spaghetti. After my food was done cooking, I grab a fork, my plate, sit down and begin to eat. Shortly after I start to eat, mike finished making his spaghetti.

He opens the drawer to find out that I had taken the last fork that was clean. He then pulls out of the drawere a spoon and says, “Dan, would you mind trading me your fork for this spoon?” And I reply with “haha, no, I’m using it to eat my eggs.” And he gets a bit upset, and we got into a little debate over whether I should relinquish my fork for his spoon since I could easily have used the spoon to eat my scrambled eggs, but I argued that he should have simply cleaned his own fork, and saved us both the time of arguing about it. I should note here, that the sink was full of dirty dishes, but it would have only taken a matter of seconds to clean a fork, and I was also in the middle of using my fork, which I had assumed he would have to clean anyways.

Should I have swapped him the fork for the spoon, should he have cleaned his own fork? Was I right in denying my fork since I was using it, and didn’t want to use a spoon.

What would you have done?

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