Accomodation Rules
Please bear with me, this is a long post.
Whilst at university, I shared a house with three others. One day, I went into what I thought was a study room, when my housemate caught me in there and got very angry indeed 'How dare you go into my room? How dare you go into my room?! I told her I thought it was a neutral study room, which anyone could go into. She told me I was wrong, and went into her room, where she continued to go about it, by telling her b/f that she paid money each month for that room, and that it wasn't a neutral study room, and how wrong I was etc.
I avoided them for a few days, as one does after such incidents. A few days after, her b/f knocked on my door, saying he needed to have a word with me, what was I doing in that room etc. He said that halfway through last year, he had pointed out to me not to go into that room; it was not a communal room, it was a private room. He ended by saying that I shouldn't go into that room, not unless 'you want to contribute money to the upkeep of that room.' I replied by saying 'no.'
But here's the thing: after returning to my room after the Xmas holidays, I found an empty packet of cigarettes and an empty can of beer. I don't smoke, and I don't drink that brand of beer. I came to the conclusion that someone must have stayed in my room. I confronted them about it, and they admitted to it. He drank in my room, he smoked in my room, he was drunk in my room, he slept in my bed. Sinc then, they have had someone stay in my room; albeit with my permission.
When you compare these two incidents, which is worse? Is there not a huge contrast between me simply going into that room, and them actually using my room? And yet, I was made to feel so much worse; what I had done was worse.
What is your opinion on this?