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She stole my sherry trifle!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 14:26

In a certain big supermarket this morning, I was getting a few last minute things, and I grabbed a sherry trifle. The last one! As I popped it into the trolley, a woman next to me sighed and huffed and puffed, and asked a shop assistant near me if they had any more. He said 'no, sorry.' The woman asked if any more were coming in tomorrow. He said 'I don't think we'll be having any more now til after Boxing day.' The woman scowled at me. I thought 'bloody hell it's not my fault I got the last one.'

I walked around the store and got some more things I needed, with the trifle placed at the bottom of the trolley where nothing could crush it, and the bloody woman seemed to be 10 feet behind me for the next 10 minutes I was in the store.

The last item I wanted was a loaf of bread. I reached up to check the dates, and popped the bread into the trolley. I started making my way back to the checkout, and noticed the trifle was gone! Shock The woman in question was practically jogging to the self checkout! I followed quickly, and sure enough, she had my fecking sherry trifle! I said 'are you kidding me?! You've taken my bloody trifle!' She said 'no I didn't! I found this mixed in with the cheeses, it's mine.'

I knew she was lying, as there was no more left after I took mine, and now she has one and mine is gone! She definitely took my sherry trifle! I told a member of staff, but they said there's really nothing they can do, as technically no-one has stolen anything. I was so pissed off! Never going to get another one the day before Christmas, and I'm not chasing around the county to look for one. Also, this store is the only one I have seen selling sherry trifles!

On the way out, she smirked at me and said 'Merry Christmas!' I was like Shock

AIBU to hope the sherry trifle gives her the shits?! Hmm

I went back in and got a raspberry trifle by the way, but I'm so pissed off.

P.s. No, I'm not making my own. It's too late to source all the ingredients now anyway!

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tommyhoundmum · 24/12/2025 20:31

mrsmumbles · 23/12/2025 14:52

I applaud you for your restraint! I would have knocked it out of her hands and stamped on it. I'm fully aware that this would have been a massively petulant overreaction but I just know I would have!

You might be down a sherry trifle but you obviously have a much better character than she does. She'll get her reward somehow.

I think I would have done something outrageous too.

GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 20:10

ElinorDashwood68 · 24/12/2025 19:44

Same happened to me over 25 years ago with the last chicken. I saw her take it out of my trolley so I followed her and took it back!

LOL, good for you! 😆

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cupfinalchaos · 24/12/2025 19:53

Revolting woman. Hope it’s off.

NeedsRenovation · 24/12/2025 19:45

Vitriolinsanity · 24/12/2025 19:17

Two fellas in our Sainsbury’s had fisticuffs over a Turkey last year. A frozen one. On Christmas Eve.

As to your trifle woman. What a demented thing to do. Also really quite sad. It wouldn’t have stopped me making a cunt laden reply to her Merry Christmas though.

I once saw two couples in a physical fight over selection boxes in the Oadby Asda in Leicester.

ElinorDashwood68 · 24/12/2025 19:44

Same happened to me over 25 years ago with the last chicken. I saw her take it out of my trolley so I followed her and took it back!

Vitriolinsanity · 24/12/2025 19:17

Two fellas in our Sainsbury’s had fisticuffs over a Turkey last year. A frozen one. On Christmas Eve.

As to your trifle woman. What a demented thing to do. Also really quite sad. It wouldn’t have stopped me making a cunt laden reply to her Merry Christmas though.

Chinsupmeloves · 24/12/2025 19:09

Desperately sad, some people are over entitled and awful. I missed the last of one item so went to another shop for it, simples! Would've been the end of the world anyway for a trifle!

GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 19:07

Beachtastic · 24/12/2025 18:52

I was so tickled by this thread that I told my DH about it. His response was "Sounds just like my mother!" (meaning, the trifle nicker). And he is right! Luckily MIL is in another country, far away...

Yeah, they do walk among us! 😬

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Beachtastic · 24/12/2025 18:52

I was so tickled by this thread that I told my DH about it. His response was "Sounds just like my mother!" (meaning, the trifle nicker). And he is right! Luckily MIL is in another country, far away...

JohnTheRevelator · 24/12/2025 18:43

Doesn't surprise me. I've had people nick stuff out of my trolley in supermarkets when I was elsewhere occupied.

Sam9769 · 24/12/2025 18:06

I'd have body slammed her for the trifle😡

GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 17:22

Fangisnotacoward · 24/12/2025 15:37

I'd have been tempted to knock it out of her hands, all over the floor, then no one gets trifle! 😂

I think I was just so gobsmacked - that I did nothing. I wish I had knocked it out of her hands now! 😆

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GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 17:17

XWKD · 24/12/2025 15:31

I told you about the karma fairy. 🤣 You get your trifle, but she still gets the shits.

Nothing like hoping! 😆

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Fangisnotacoward · 24/12/2025 15:37

I'd have been tempted to knock it out of her hands, all over the floor, then no one gets trifle! 😂

XWKD · 24/12/2025 15:31

I told you about the karma fairy. 🤣 You get your trifle, but she still gets the shits.

GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 14:25

Great news! DH and I have got a sherry trifle! Smile

Well, we will have tomorrow. DD got one for us this morning - a luxury one. She and our other DC are coming tomorrow, late morning, for Christmas day, with their partners.

So we will have a lovely, large, sherry trifle that should feed all 6 of us! Grin She got it from a little quirky independent shop in the town where she lives.

Thanks so much everyone for all the funny messages, the kind and warm-hearted messages and not treating me like I'm batshit! (Which I am a bit!) 😆

It was Morrisons (where I was yesterday when my sherry trifle got 'stolen') by the way (for those asking,) so as nice as their trifles are, I imagine the large luxury one will be better, so the silly woman has done me a favour.

Christmas is saved! 😆

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

🎄

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GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 14:14

That posted twice - sorry!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 14:14

CinnamonBuns67 · 24/12/2025 08:22

Oh no I'd have been a bit annoyed too OP. I hope it falls out the fridge and goes splat all over the floor just before shes about to serve it up.

Me too! 😆

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GoldAndSilverBells · 24/12/2025 14:14

CinnamonBuns67 · 24/12/2025 08:22

Oh no I'd have been a bit annoyed too OP. I hope it falls out the fridge and goes splat all over the floor just before shes about to serve it up.

Me too! 😆

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TreesOfGreen99 · 24/12/2025 08:36

@GoldAndSilverBells was it from Tesco? We had their sherry trifle last night and it was watery, couldn’t taste any sherry and was generally a bit meh. Glad we didn’t save it for tomorrow.
Wish I’d bought the raspberry one now but I promise I didn’t pinch yours 😁

CinnamonBuns67 · 24/12/2025 08:22

Oh no I'd have been a bit annoyed too OP. I hope it falls out the fridge and goes splat all over the floor just before shes about to serve it up.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 24/12/2025 07:54

Netcurtainnelly · 23/12/2025 16:00

Then the police might have come, you wouldhave had everyone staring at you. You might have been banned from the store.
What a kerfuffle for a trifle.

Definitely not worth it.
Op you played it fine.

I think she was probably playing with hyperbole…

Ophy83 · 24/12/2025 07:30

What a cow.

It won't be quite the same, but if you can't find another sherry trifle you could get some fruit in alcohol e.g. peaches in cognac to have alongside your trifle.

Randomlygeneratedname · 24/12/2025 07:30

GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 14:26

In a certain big supermarket this morning, I was getting a few last minute things, and I grabbed a sherry trifle. The last one! As I popped it into the trolley, a woman next to me sighed and huffed and puffed, and asked a shop assistant near me if they had any more. He said 'no, sorry.' The woman asked if any more were coming in tomorrow. He said 'I don't think we'll be having any more now til after Boxing day.' The woman scowled at me. I thought 'bloody hell it's not my fault I got the last one.'

I walked around the store and got some more things I needed, with the trifle placed at the bottom of the trolley where nothing could crush it, and the bloody woman seemed to be 10 feet behind me for the next 10 minutes I was in the store.

The last item I wanted was a loaf of bread. I reached up to check the dates, and popped the bread into the trolley. I started making my way back to the checkout, and noticed the trifle was gone! Shock The woman in question was practically jogging to the self checkout! I followed quickly, and sure enough, she had my fecking sherry trifle! I said 'are you kidding me?! You've taken my bloody trifle!' She said 'no I didn't! I found this mixed in with the cheeses, it's mine.'

I knew she was lying, as there was no more left after I took mine, and now she has one and mine is gone! She definitely took my sherry trifle! I told a member of staff, but they said there's really nothing they can do, as technically no-one has stolen anything. I was so pissed off! Never going to get another one the day before Christmas, and I'm not chasing around the county to look for one. Also, this store is the only one I have seen selling sherry trifles!

On the way out, she smirked at me and said 'Merry Christmas!' I was like Shock

AIBU to hope the sherry trifle gives her the shits?! Hmm

I went back in and got a raspberry trifle by the way, but I'm so pissed off.

P.s. No, I'm not making my own. It's too late to source all the ingredients now anyway!

Try your local coop! Ours have loads and just put them all to half price.
But yanbu! The cheeky mare!

Londonrach1 · 24/12/2025 07:26

dottiedodah · 23/12/2025 20:01

She sounds rude and entitled .I must admit after 30 odd years of Christmas food shops ,I now go at 6.30 am! Its lovely and quiet. Still a few of us but nothing like the bunfight at 10.00. Plenty of trifles ,cream,and everything else.back home for 8.45 .packed away and bacon sarnie .mug of tea. Bliss!

It's packed at 6.30am here. Quieter later

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