During study abroad, you're bound to encounter quite a few oddballs.
Searching on a certain social platform, collections of odd stories are truly eye-opening.
Among them, the most common are a group called "freeloaders". They can't take care of themselves, can't study on their own, and can't look up information themselves.
Although they are studying abroad alone, their classmates and friends around them are all their personal attendants.
They constantly scrounge for free meals and drinks, taking others' kindness for granted, also known as "weakling jerks."
If you refuse their unreasonable demands, they'll start their 'drama queen' act. At best, they'll play the victim; at worst, they'll hurl insults. Either way, you can't escape a round of manipulation.
Freeloader Oddity Showcase
Freeloaders come in all shapes and sizes, redefining human diversity.
The Helpless Type
After all, they are princes and princesses raised in the palm of their families' hands, so a bit of pampering is normal. Scrounging food, drink, accommodation, rides, and labor is basic operation.
On your roommate's birthday, you're the one giving gifts and treating them to a meal, and you're paying 😅
Your roommate generously treats others to a meal, but you're on the hook for half the ingredient cost? Since you're such a nice person, all the trash ends up yours.
One second they're your roommate, the next they're runaway princes and princesses from the shared apartment, leaving you alone to face the landlord's debt collection.
The more ruthless ones not only scrounge food, drink, and shelter but also your phone. When you're in class and not using your phone for those few dozen minutes, that's their highlight moment for surfing the internet and dominating in-game with pentakills:
Hitching rides to class is no big deal; secretly taking someone else's car to drive for Uber is what truly leaves you speechless 😅
Freeloading isn't exclusive to ordinary families; after all, princes and princesses are used to having everything handed to them.
Young masters and missies may be loaded, but they always forget their wallets. By graduation, you've never seen that long-lost wallet 😓
Though they steal photos from your Moments, master photo editing, and even borrow your shoes for dates, their rich-girl persona remains intact 👇
Although they claim to be some kind of second-generation rich, they're always a few bucks short when repaying you. If you ask for it, you're just not broad-minded enough.
After all, fallen princes and princesses might have to survive by eating their roommate's food in the middle of the night.
Yet even if they owe debts everywhere and flee back home, they're still flaunting wealth and their Rolls-Royce on social media 👇
Studying abroad has certainly exposed you to the diversity of human species.
The Can't Self-Study Type
There's another type of freeloader who wants homework, notes, and someone to latch onto. Using their brain is simply out of the question.
They can't remember assignments, don't know where to find materials, always try to slip away from lab sessions, and basically know nothing all semester.
In group projects, they vanish into thin air. Then when you get an A, they emerge to make a speech as if they led everyone to success.
As finals approach, they start reaching out to the whole world for assignments, notes, and answers. Even though a quick Google search could find it, what they really lack is probably a personal servant.
