The Truth Behind What Happens if You Don’t Finish Your Dining Points

Article by: Simmy | Photo by: Adrianna E

17 dollars and 56 cents. Who knew that would lead to all this?

It was a sunny April day. The kind that makes you leave your puffer behind. It was also my last day of college. I’m leaving today and nothing is packed at all. I’m stressed af. I’m staring at my room, knowing my mom’s going to scream at me when she sees this. Then I heard a knock on the door. There were three men that stood in front of me. One without eyes. One without ears. And one without a mouth. 

“Who are you people?” I said.

“Your worst nightmare.” Earl Ess replied.  

They move like a storm. They tie me up to my chair, tying my legs and arms together so I can’t move. They take my phone. Text my ex that I miss him and need him so bad. Ok. So that’s what happened, alright? I would never, ever do something like that. It was these people that broke into my room and just did that.

Then they take my laptop.

“Password” asked Mo Uthless.

I look around embarrassed. I don’t want my kidnappers to judge me.

 “AvaMaxChopHoe”. I replied.

“No spaces?”

“No spaces”

They go through my laptop. Lucky for me, I don’t close any tabs, so the laptop is moving similarly to those computers from computer class in elementary school. It actually keeps replaying this scene from the Secretary with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal. I’m getting a weird vibe so I decide to break the tension with a wise, yet witty quip: “Like sorry I don’t know” 

“$17.56, you had ONE job” Eyeless said. 

That’s when it clicks. This is all because of my dining points I didn’t spend. I mean, I asked around to find out what would happen if I didn’t finish them. I thought they just transferred over. I was gonna spend them during finals, but then I remembered I don’t have any finals. I’m in COM. If I knew that this would be the consequence, I would’ve just gone to the GSU. Ugh but I, like, hate the GSU. It’s so high school cafeteria vibes and eating alone there is like weird, I don’t know. Maybe I should’ve just stopped thinking about myself. Who cares about embarrassing myself by being alone? It’s not embarrassing. Bymyselfmaxxing is -

“HELLO?? What is this document” Earl asked. “The Kennedys Never Even Existed?”

“Oh, that’s just my assignment for a class. I’m still working on the rewrite.” I laughed nervously.

“The semester is over.” Earl responded.

“Yeah..I’m just gonna see. You know, you can always just like see, right” I replied, giggling awkwardly.

Mo sighs. “Ok listen, we were supposed to make you feel $17.56 worth of pain, but it seems like you have a lot going on, so we’re just going to leave you alone. But, next time spend your dining points. It’s only you that loses money. Also, your professor is not accepting that assignment. Start earlier next time.” He said, clearing me with ease. 

They untied me and left all their kidnapping stuff in my room. Great, more mess to clean. I hear another knock on the door. 

“Thank God, you guys came back for your st-” My sentence is cut short in shock. It’s my mom.

She comes in furious and picks up the rope. She looks at me disgusted.

“What are you into?” She asked.

Oh mom, if you only knew….