Dorm life is a very specific type of survival experience. You share tiny spaces, communal bathrooms, and a whole lot of unwritten rules. But the most sacred unwritten rule of living in an all female dorm is that bras are entirely optional the second you cross the threshold of your building. One college student recently found herself in the middle of a massive hallway drama over her own anatomy, and her petty revenge is absolute perfection. The Original Poster lives in a college dorm on a strictly all female floor. Like any normal person just trying to exist in her own living space, she does not strap herself into a wire cage just to walk down the hall. She usually wears a bra when leaving the actual building, but a quick trip to the bathroom or the water fountain simply does not warrant full undergarment armor.
One Night, she left her room to walk ten yards down the hall to refill her water bottle. She was wearing a perfectly normal, fitted white tank top with no bra. It was not see through, but the natural outline of her body was visible. There was a small group of people hanging out in the hallway, but she minded her own business, got her water, and went right back to her room. Half an hour later, the absolute audacity arrived at her door. One of the girls from the hallway knocked and delivered the most insecure request imaginable. She apologized but asked the Original Poster to please put a bra on if she came back out into the hall because her boyfriend was out there and staring a little bit.
Let us pause and unpack this level of delusion. Instead of getting mad at her boyfriend for staring at a woman just existing in her own home, this girl decided to police a stranger’s body. Because the Original Poster is super non confrontational, she awkwardly apologized and agreed. For the rest of the night, she forced herself to wear a sweater or a bra anytime she stepped out of her own room to avoid any more uncomfortable drama.
You would think complying with the ridiculous demand would be the end of it. But mean girl energy never sleeps. The very next day, the Original Poster’s roommate overheard the insecure girlfriend loudly gossiping in the communal bathroom. She was telling all her friends about the incident and completely twisting the narrative to make herself the victim of a seductive plot.
The girlfriend made it sound like the Original Poster was practically naked and purposely trying to steal her man. She claimed the braless student was taking her time at the fountain and purposely posing to push her chest out. The roommate even caught the girl physically acting it out at the water fountain, loudly mocking the Original Poster and pretending to be her in front of an audience.
The harassment continued later that night. When the Original Poster walked to the bathroom to brush her teeth in her pajamas, she passed the mean girl and her friends. The group pointedly stared down at her chest and started giggling like middle school bullies. But the ultimate last straw arrived the next morning in the form of a building wide email from the Resident Assistant.
The RA sent an email stating she had received anonymous complaints about people dressing inappropriately in the hallways. She asked everyone to make sure they were keeping things covered up. The insecure girlfriend actually had the nerve to file an official complaint to the dorm staff because she could not handle her boyfriend having wandering eyes on an all female floor.
This is where the Original Poster activated her brilliant, petty revenge. She remembered from a previous orientation chat that the mean girl’s boyfriend does not actually go to their college. She also knew that due to strict pandemic safety rules, the dorms were not allowing any non student or family guests inside the building for the entire year.
Using the exact same anonymous complaint form the mean girl used, the Original Poster submitted a highly concerned tip of her own. She reported that people were bringing off campus boyfriends into the dorm and they were not wearing mandatory masks in the hallways. It was a flawless checkmate that targeted the real problem invading their living space.
The very next morning, the RA fired off another building wide email. Due to anonymous complaints, the staff announced they would be strictly enforcing the no off campus guest rule by checking the IDs of all unfamiliar visitors. The mean girl effectively got her own boyfriend permanently banned from the building. As the Original Poster brilliantly pointed out, if this girl was so worried about her boyfriend seeing things in the hallway, she really should be thanking her for completely removing the temptation!