College roommate accidentally spills soda on your child's laptop...

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Anonymous wrote:A college student is an adult, let them handle it.

Exactly.
Why are you still handling his affairs, mom?

And contact the other parents??
Good God, you want your kid to die of embarrassment?

Land the helicopter.

That said, it is about to be finals. Don't let your kid be penny wise and pound foolish. Just buy a laptop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reason 23 out of 100 for why immigrants can't understand how you guys share a bedroom with random strangers while you're supposed to be getting a university education.

So, where do you live while getting a degree?

I'm in the EU and no one here has a roommate in college. Kids rent flats where everyone has their own room because they are adults, and adults need their own (small) space. Some unis have residence halls, but even there everyone has their own room. What is to be gained by cramming two unrelated adults who probably have little in common into one bedroom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other kid should have offered immediately. It shouldn't be on your kid to ask. What has the other kid said about it?

Maybe the other kid can’t afford to replace it.

+1 I suppose OP can take all of roommate's Christmas money in a few months, or ask his parents to replace her kid's laptop instead of buying him gifts.

But I hope OP will find another way. The poor kid probably feels absolutely terrible.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about the roommate's financial situation. It seems like everyone is assuming the roommate has limited funds. Maybe I missed that?

[Anonymous]

And unless the computer was left in a common area of the dorm, the roommate should be offering to pay. As someone mentioned, OP's child shouldn't even be having to bring it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The other kid should have offered immediately. It shouldn't be on your kid to ask. What has the other kid said about it?

Maybe the other kid can’t afford to replace it.

+1 I suppose OP can take all of roommate's Christmas money in a few months, or ask his parents to replace her kid's laptop instead of buying him gifts. But I hope OP will find another way. The poor kid probably feels absolutely terrible.

What Christmas money? Maybe the kid is Jewish. But even if they're Christmas-celebrators, what Christmas money? The kid should offer to replace it. They should get a job if they don't already have one and give the money earned to the roommate whose laptop they broke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reason 23 out of 100 for why immigrants can't understand how you guys share a bedroom with random strangers while you're supposed to be getting a university education.

So, where do you live while getting a degree?

I'm in the EU and no one here has a roommate in college. Kids rent flats where everyone has their own room because they are adults, and adults need their own (small) space. Some unis have residence halls, but even there everyone has their own room. What is to be gained by cramming two unrelated adults who probably have little in common into one bedroom?

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Just because you do it differently does not mean your way is best. We have roommates so our kids can learn how to get along with people who are different than you! It is a necessary skill to get along with other and if you can't than you have recourse and can move.

Please take your superiority elsewhere!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

How do you know it was the roommate? Perhaps your DC decided to not tell the truth so not to get yelled at by you?

Roommate owned up to it.

The roommate said s/he did it? Then The roommate should definitely buy a new laptop. I'm appalled at the other answers here. Of course the roommate should replace it if s/he irrevocably damaged it. If the roommate doesn't offer then your kid, OP, should go to the RA and ask for advice/assistance and mediation with the roommate. Your kid also should ask for a single for the next semester.

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Look you don't know for certain unless you were there and saw the roommate spilling the drink on the laptop. I'm assuming your kid is telling you all this? Would you replace it if it had been your kid? If not, than I would assume your kid knows this and got the roommate to cover for them.

[Anonymous]

Don't be a crazy mom.

[Anonymous]

No, although it would be nice. If someone in a coffee shop had accidentally dumped their coffee on your laptop while walking by, it would be bad luck and all on you. (This happened to someone I know.) You need insurance if you can't easily afford to replace the laptop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reason 23 out of 100 for why immigrants can't understand how you guys share a bedroom with random strangers while you're supposed to be getting a university education.

So, where do you live while getting a degree?

I'm in the EU and no one here has a roommate in college. Kids rent flats where everyone has their own room because they are adults, and adults need their own (small) space. Some unis have residence halls, but even there everyone has their own room. What is to be gained by cramming two unrelated adults who probably have little in common into one bedroom?

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Just because you do it differently does not mean your way is best. We have roommates so our kids can learn how to get along with people who are different than you! It is a necessary skill to get along with other and if you can't than you have recourse and can move.

Please take your superiority elsewhere!

This. This is also why in my MBA program, they assigned us groups instead of letting us choose who was to be in our group. Sometimes they even used the results of our personality tests to intentionally mix it up.

Why? Because that is what real life is like. You don't get to pick who is assigned to work with you on the next big project.

[Anonymous]

This post is so odd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, although it would be nice. If someone in a coffee shop had accidentally dumped their coffee on your laptop while walking by, it would be bad luck and all on you. (This happened to someone I know.) You need insurance if you can't easily afford to replace the laptop.

What insurance specifically would pay for this coffee shop and kid's dorm accidents? Figuring avg MacBook is about $1200.00.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, although it would be nice. If someone in a coffee shop had accidentally dumped their coffee on your laptop while walking by, it would be bad luck and all on you. (This happened to someone I know.) You need insurance if you can't easily afford to replace the laptop.

What insurance specifically would pay for this coffee shop and kid's dorm accidents? Figuring avg MacBook is about $1200.00.

The insurance Apple offers when you purchase the MacBook. We have to purchase one for our high school age daughter because required at her school and the school highly recommends the insurance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, although it would be nice. If someone in a coffee shop had accidentally dumped their coffee on your laptop while walking by, it would be bad luck and all on you. (This happened to someone I know.) You need insurance if you can't easily afford to replace the laptop.

What insurance specifically would pay for this coffee shop and kid's dorm accidents? Figuring avg MacBook is about $1200.00.

It's laptop insurance, specifically, though I think you can also cover it under other types of policies. My friend's laptop destroyed in the coffee shop accident was an very expensive high-end laptop used for data modeling. Laptops also get stolen in college, so it's a scenario where the insurance could make sense.