To not replace the bottle of wine?

[foreveralmost]

I live with two other housemates, one stored a bottle of wine in side door of the fridge. As I opened the fridge it fell out and smashed.

I didn’t open the fridge roughly, I opened it normally, She saw me do it. I obviously cleaned it up and apologised - but I was just the unlucky one who happened to open the fridge.

She has now text me to say could I pick her up a new bottle on the way home ..

I think we only have the OP’s word that they didn’t yank or slam the door.

Sure. You still replace the bottle. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?

I am surprised that people are commenting confused about how it fell out. I've had this happen numerous times in my life, things falling out of the fridge door-they've usually become dislodged and fallen forward, having caught on something else in the fridge.

I'd not store wine in the fridge door for this reason, only heavier jars or sauces that aren't tall enough to potentially fall out and I'd be less bothered to lose than a nice bottle of wine

FWIW I did expect that the wine would be around £6-£8 depending on region, and if it was me who this happened to, I would replace it but then have a conversation about not leaving things in the fridge door as they have a potential of falling out when the door is opened.

If you break sonething belonging to someone else, you replace it in my book. And unless you're unhinged or have a very bad temper, I'd say most of those instances are accidents-doesn't mean you're not responsible. We all have accidents/make mistakes.

In smaller fridges the door isn't a good place to store bottles. The place in the door is skinnier than in a big fridge, the bar on it is lower and flimsy easily moveable plastic unable to give support to bottles.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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

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?

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 - 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

How can you slam a door open?

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

The fact you’ve referred to it as a “deep shelf” shows you haven’t bothered to read my replies.

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.

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?

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

Your housemates must really enjoy having you live with them.

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

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

So serious 😂

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.

Thank you.

And yep I opened the fridge door like a normal human. No slamming, no yanking, etc.

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.