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March 13th, 2008
Retard Of The Day goes to the thief who’s juvenile behavior resulted in this sign, stuck to the refrigerator in my workplace lunch room.1
The last time I ate someone else’s food on the sly, I was twenty years old and living with a bunch of other poverty-stricken college-age girls. One night, in a moment of hypoglycemic delirium, I ate someone else’s saved day-old take-out.
When you live with others, eating their food (or wearing their clothes or using their toothbrush) without permission is grounds for tarring-and-feathering. Successful cohabitation depends on everyone’s ability to be a Big Person and follow basic rules of consideration.
I don’t remember exactly what I ate that night, but I am still picking tar out of my hair.
It’s been twenty years since then and now I bring my lunch, eat out, or go hungry. I expect others in the group living situation to do the same. They are all adults who have plenty of money. (And if they don’t, they’re old enough to know they can’t make others suffer for their meth habit.)
Maybe this wouldn’t bug me so much if it hadn’t happened before. A few months ago, Lach’s lunch got stolen, which I found very bizarre - it’s not like she had it catered from 13 Coins or something.
I liked the suggestion from the anonymous guy in the elevator who heard us complaining about it that day. He recommended that we put a sign on the door that said: “Random food in this refrigerator has been poisoned. Steal at your own risk.”
I am so very tempted. Fight immaturity with immaturity, right?
- You can’t see it very well in the photo, but there’s a little “Yeah!” scribbled bottom right of the red text. Solidarity in the workplace! [↩]
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It is traditional in these cases to leave a delicious looking brownie — laced with lots of Ex-lax — in the communal fridge.
What annoyed me about that to no end was that it happened SEVERAL TIMES. Fuckers! I am not made of money, and the ruuuuudeness.
I had totally forgotten about that guy’s suggestion. I should have a line of Tupperware made with that etched in it. You heard it here first!
*surfs off to Google making my own Gladware*
Then you, Rachel, will understand why I got so ticked many years ago when my sister borrowed my underwear! No one else understood.
I also like the Ex-lax idea. But with my luck, I’d forget until I was into my third brownie.