Cheers - Phil

  - some bastard at work nicked my mini pork and pickle pies from the fridge several years back. Just thought t**t! and didn't bring anymore after that,

About forty years ago me dad guzzled my leftover gammon from the fridge. Never replaced it, either. No wonder we never got on.

Super stuff!!!

Great!

There's always some thieving gannet in every organisation. Bitter? Moi?

 

At a party many moons ago (when I still got invited to parties) the conversation moved from the party food to the problem of people taking other people's things from work fridges. Several people, including yours truly, had a bit of a moan until one woman said,"Never happen at my work! I'm a research virologist, you don't touch anything in our fridges unless you are 110% certain of what's in the plastic box!" 

Not a clue if this is actually true, but.....
I read of a case where a marine biologist in Oz, who shared a dwelling with a few of his fellows, woke with a raging thirst early one morning....found a glass of what he thought was almost ice cold water in the fridge, and swallowed it in a couple of gulps.
Unfortunately it wasn't bottled water..It was sea water with one or more specimens of 'box' jellyfish floating in it.
Didn't do him much good, though apparently he survived.

Another case, told to us by our old 'horsey vet' back in Notts, was a chap in England waking in similar fashion to the story above...... grabbing a glass from a shelf in his kitchen..filing it with water....downing it with a couple of gulps (again)....not realizing that his wife had put a number of small, but very heavy duty horse tranquilizers in it......ready for sedating one of their animals next day.
When he was found the next morning, the family thought he'd collapsed with something like a stroke.
He woke, in a hospital, about 3 days later..and was apparently fine afterwards.

Cheers - Phil.

Good kip then.

Years ago at one place I worked we used to have a food thief.  Very annoying if you only find out in the midle of the night (it was before 24 hour trading).  It happened to me a few  of times. I eventually bought a Tuna baggette from the canteen and burried a large dead slug in the middle of the tuna.

Surprisingly the thefys stopped after that.

NICE one, Mark ! 
Cheers - Phil

 

I'm glad I've only ever worked on building sites! So much more genteel and dignified than the cut-throat sounding world of office 9-to-5. Hairy-backsided builders would go out of their way to share food. Seen it, done it, sat amongst a picnic of all the trades. Site management sent out for ice lollies one day, during the summer.