So I live in a dorm, on a floor that is divided into a boys' pod and a girls' pod. Each pod has a common room. There are 2 couches, 2 tables, and various chairs and endtables in each pod. At least, there were at the beginning of the term. Slowly over the past few months the girls' pod has been losing furniture. A chair here, a table there. About 2 weeks ago we lost a couch. This was kind of okay because the girls don't really go out into the pod at all. It's a dead zone. The boys, however, are always in their's. It was annoying but okay. But, about a week ago we lost the other couch and a lot of chairs. For some reason I could not let this go. I complained incessantly. I was rallying my suitemates to go steal it back. But, I am definitely all talk. I'm an idea person. I do not make things happen.
So today I came back from class and said to my roommate and her friend, "I wouldn't mind all of the missing furniture if we just filled the common room with bean bag chairs". Because I can't go for more than like 5 minutes without complaining about this. Then her friend said we should go steal some chairs because she was bored. To which, I of course said no. We argued. They left to go do it. After about 25 seconds I realized that this was all my idea and I could not let it go down without me. So I ran after them. We snuck in, grabbed some chairs and stood there. Then, we hear voices. So I bolted with the chair and they ran after me. I was done after that. They said we should get couches. I said no. They went. Then we knocked on my suitemates door and they decided to help, so it just kind of snowballed from there. We took 4 couches, 4 tables, and a bunch of chairs.
The boys were slightly outraged. We sat in the pod for hours coloring and every now and then a new group would come in and rant. But they all said, "Well where is the rest of the furniture?". And we were like what are you talking about. They proceeded to insist that they've had 4 couches all year. They could not believe that they didn't. They thought we'd just misplaced all of our furniture. This happened many times. It was the same conversation over and over again, but I have video proof that we had 2 couches. I did a tour of our common room before this happened and made it a youtube video. RIGHT HERE. In the end, they just brought over their TV and XBOX and played FIFA all night. And we colored and hung out with them and it's been a lot of fun for everyone. So...SUCCESS. They took a couch and a chair back, but that's okay.
