Seriously, who does this!?

[Kimmyt]

So this morning I didn't have time to pack a full lunch, so I grabbed an apple, a pack of yogurt, and a granola bar. Put the apple and yogurt in the fridge for lunch then ran off to do labwork for a few hours.

I get back around 11:30 and go to get my apple and yogurt out of the fridge, and my apple is gone! It had only been in there since 8!

I was furious. I mean, what if I didn't have any other lunch money with me, and that was all my food for the day?

I mean seriously, who takes someone else's food??

[Bluetree]

Probably the same idiots who steal my flip flops when I'm out on my ride! Scurvy knaves.

[mimitabby]

that happens here too. I never put food in the fridge. I have an insulated lunch bag and keep it at my desk.
It isn't that i don't trust people, it's that the fridge at work often stinks so bad.... so i never open it.
but from time to time i hear about some poor soul whose stuff gets ripped off in there.

[Haudlady]

That's just nasty, Kimmy...

DH had a lunch thief at his work - he started bringing his food in a cooler and keeping it under his desk. They discovered her about a month back... she was escorted out by the police (a big deal in our little city)! The sad thing is that is wasn't someone who 'needed' the food... aparently it was an obsessive behavior, and she didn't even eat everything she took!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Kimmy,
Maybe just putting all your food in a paper bag with your name on it in the fridge will make it more of a taboo to snatch an apple.

[Kimmyt]

Yeah, I should be doing that anyway, but on days when I just bring in a few little things I just throw them in there. It's usually pretty empty and only a few people use it, so that's why I'm so shocked that someone took it!

I was so tempted to put a little piece of paper on the front of the fridge that said, "Thou shalt not steal" but I didn't want it to be construed as religious or something so I just sucked it up and bought lunch.

Anyway they were really good apples, so crunchy and yummy... now I'm getting all depressed again. Anyway I ranted loudly about it for a few minutes so hopefully whoever did it will feel remorseful.

Maybe I should troll the trash cans in the area looking for cores....

[Pax]

Kimmy,
Maybe just putting all your food in a paper bag with your name on it in the fridge will make it more of a taboo to snatch an apple.

That's what I started doing with my lunch, when someone decided to open the bag (closed up WITH MY NAME ON IT) and take my orange out, I about went postal. Instead I made a large colorful sign that told my co-workers "I brought extra oranges today so whoever has been stealing them out of my lunchbag doesn't have to feel the need to sneak, just grab one out of the bowl on my desk". For some reason no one took my oranges after that.

[Dianyla]

Start planting apples with worms in them.

[snapdragen]

Brownies made with ex-lax.

I had someone steal the shrimp off my leftover shrimp and pasta. I go to get the box out of the fridge, and there are tomato sauce finger prints on it. When I opened it, all the shrimp had been eaten! I got revenge though - I had an awful cold! The next week, the woman I suspected was sick too.

[Pax]

... I got revenge though - I had an awful cold! The next week, the woman I suspected was sick too.

Bwaaahaaaaaaaa!

[jobob]

I got revenge though - I had an awful cold! The next week, the woman I suspected was sick too.

I love stories with happy endings.

[Dianyla]

I had someone steal the shrimp off my leftover shrimp and pasta. I go to get the box out of the fridge, and there are tomato sauce finger prints on it.

Someone actually opened up your food to pick off the choice bits and leave the rest?

Wow. Just... Wow.

[snapdragen]

Oh yeah. And they did it to someone else's pizza. The box was sealed with tape, they opened it, and ate all the pepperoni off the pizza.

[mtkitchn]

Picking stuff off other people's food? Oh my gosh, that is the sickest thing! What is wrong with people? Thank goodness for little cooler bags that I can keep away from others.

[Duck on Wheels]

Happens in every shared fridge. There's always a thief. My dad once suggested that I try to protect my study-break milkshake by putting the cup in a paper bag with a big clear label "DO NOT TIP! URINE SAMPLE!"