To not replace the bottle of wine?

It is just the societal norm to offer to replace, and the person would say no no, the shelf is annoying, my mistake Then you insist and they still refuse. Then you buy the wine anyway and they share it with you.

Its called being cordial and civilised and quite honestly it is the grease on the wheels that keeps everything moving along.

Its so petty.
Don't be that guy.

The same thing happens with my fridge and we have to remember not to put tall bottles in the pocket.

I kind of think you're both being reasonable and both being unreasonable. Yes, it was an accident, but it was (unintentionally) caused by you. You shouldn't be out of pocket but neither should your housemate. One of you needs to be generous to the other.

I don't think you should have to replace it if the door isn't suitable for large bottles. Presumably she's well aware of what the fridge door is like.

If you're friends I might do it as a gesture of goodwill, but say I wouldn't do it again if she carries on putting wine in unsuitable places.

It may not have been your fault but it's still your responsibility to do something about it. It's not your flatmate's fault either but it's her responsibility too. 50/50 seems fair to me but it's not on to do nothing.

I still don’t’t see how it could have just fallen out given the usual construction of a bottle shelf in a fridge door. Did you catch your sleeve on it or something?

Milk bottles fall out of the very basic fridge at my work fairly frequently. It happens more often when it isn't full and the bottles aren't squeezed in tight. It happens often enough that I don't put the milk into the door when I bring milk in a glass bottle to work.

Right, so you said

Yes the fridge was probably the fullest it’s been. The side slots aren’t that high either,

But the bottle slot at the bottom of the fridge door should be high enough to hold a bottle securely, otherwise bottles would be falling out all the time.

Are you rude to your housemates? We’re all just trying to be helpful but your responses are very shirty.

Of course you shouldn’t pay, if all you did is open the door. It was an accident waiting to happen.

That poster was defending you. You really are a rude individual, aren’t you!

Your housemates must really enjoy having you live with them.

C'mon OP - spill the tea. Do you and this other woman have beef with one another? I bet she uses other peoples shelves in the fridge as well as storing her wine haphazardly doesn't she?

Quite easily, it seems to be the only way my husband knows how to open one. If you open it remotely quickly it then hits the hinge and anything in the side can easily fall out.

OP: AIBU?
Posters: Yes
OP: No, I'm not.
Posters: erm...

Op - Should I replace the wine?

Posters - Yes

Op - why should I she stored it in a stupid place

Why start a thread if you don't think you should replace it. A waste of everyone's time. If you don't think YABU don't ask if you are

I’m surprised so many posters are saying you should replace it. It would be the nice thing to do I suppose, but OP just happened to open the door, it could have just as easily been the housemate who opened the door and ‘smashed’ it. Does housemate realize it was the fact it was put in the fridge badly that caused it to fall out?

OP lives in a houseshare, maybe £6+ is not an insignificant amount of money to her.

I would always offer to replace something I broke but I would also refuse to accept money if someone accidentally broke something of mine.

However, unless the shelf fell off, I don’t see how a wine bottle could fall out of the fridge door if it were standing flat in the deep shelf that is designed to hold bottles so they can’t topple out. That would be defying the laws of physics. Was it in a tiny shelf for butter or something? Or balanced on top of something? Did something else fall on it too?

Well it's up to you, don't replace it then?

We dont know that though. We only have the OP's opinion that she didn't open it roughly. My teens would swear they don't bang cupboard doors, but they 100% do. I recon the housemate thinks the OP is the rude one for taking zero responsibility for her part in this and that is why she asked for another bottle.

Just replace it. Yes it was an accident but no one else did it when opening the fridge, you did. If it’s under a tenner just take the hit, not worth the fall out. Maybe tell the housemates ‘guys don’t put wine in the door of the fridge, it has a tendency to fall out.’

I’ve certainly had bottles fall out of the fridge door when I’ve opened it normally - I don’t think anyone is suggesting it was anything other than a pure accident. I just don’t think it’s any reason not to replace the bottle.

If your favourite cup (say a £15-20 mug rather than a cheap Asda own one) slipped out of the flat mates hand and smashed on the floor.
so an accident but still flatmate involved.

maybe you wouldn’t think it was mandatory for them to replace it but you would appreciate it and it would go some way to keeping the flat share ticking over and friendly.

Haha! Sweet karma 😁

If I liked my flatmate, I’d just replace it. Hoping it wasn’t an expensive bottle, I’d be ok if it was less than a tenner and a one-off. I wouldn’t replace it again. Also I don’t think the door is a good place to store a wine bottle. Milk fine as it sort of wedges in but wine often tips in the door.