Is this woman winning at life, or a dirty rotten thief? Pointless straw poll!

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DH and I saw this earlier in a hospital cafe and had a long pointless discussion over it, so naturally I need to know what MNers think

Cafe has three tiers of sarnie: cheap ones (cheese/houmous/coleslaw), middling (ham, chicken tikka) and expensive (prawn, can't remember what else)

Procedure is you order your sandwich, it's wrapped in a bag and then you take it along the queue to the till where you order drinks etc. Till person asks you what sandwich you've got and you pay.

Woman in front of us ordered a prawn sarnie with extra salad and coleslaw. Takes it to the till, is asked "what have you got?" and replies "Cheese". Pays the cheaper rate.

Is she a cheeky sod? Or is it fair enough? I have too much time on my hands

I just can not bring myself to eat in hospital cafes full stop 🤮

Definitely a cf, be less cf if she just nicked the whole sarnie and you could hope/assume she was skint and hungry

Agree that prawns and coleslaw is an unholy mess of a sandwich. My chicken tikka roll was like a dirty nappy, I dread to think what hers was like

Thief-and people doing that will be pushing up the cost of the sandwiches overall, so everyone else loses.

Another time lean over and say "Oh, you've picked up the wrong one if you want cheese, you've got prawn and extra salad. Would you like me to swap it for you?"

Grubby little bastard thief

Maybe she felt stitched up when she paid to park!

Prawns, coleslaw and salad from a hospital cafe? Christ. Sounds like food poisoning in a roll. Yuck.
Maybe the (thief) woman said ‘cheese’ at the till because she was standing in the queue to pay thinking to herself, Shit, I should have got the cheese! Why didn’t I ask for cheese!
Either that or she’s just dishonest. Bit risky though, she must have known they wouldn’t check the sandwiches at the till - how embarrassing if the cashier had peeked in the bag and said ‘You’ve got Prawns’ in a loud accusatory way.

It's cfery but if she's paid for parking she's already given them enough for a whole trawler full of prawns so it all evens out in the end.

Reminds me of when I met a friend for lunch in Costa. She ordered a drink and a biscuit. The worker asked her if she was eating g the biscuit there or taking it away. She said take away because it is cheaper. When we say down she are the biscuit. I would never have thought to do that.
Anyway I do think the woman in the op's post was cheeky but I ' m a bit in awe of her.

What on earth did she do with that whole 2p? Do that often enough and she’ll soon be able to afford that new car.

Not if she spends it all on prawns and avocados she won't, the thieving dishonest twat.

(Just entering into the spirit of the thread.)

When we say down she are the biscuit. I would never have thought to do that

They'd be well within their rights to ask you to stop eating the biscuit or leave as the reason why certain food costs more to eat in is because that makes it subject to VAT so by eating a takeout biscuit inside the cafe you bought it from means you are causing the cafe to commit VAT fraud.

Imagine a situation where the cafe did nothing and if that customer was a tax inspector either carrying out an investigation or simply having their lunch, it could open up a whole detailed inspection of the business.

I would probably have wondered about eye or memory problems (as we were in a hospital) and might have stepped in to say, "Oh you actually picked up prawn by mistake. Shall I change it for you?" Because I'm an interfering nosy busybody helpful.

I don’t understand on what grounds either of you thought this was “fair enough” or “winning at life”.

I can understand that some people wouldn’t consider this to be terribly serious, but surely it could only be “fair enough” if it was, for example, secret revenge for previously having been diddled out of the right change, or overcharged for a muffin or something?

That’s like saying that people who fiddle with the self-service fruit and veg scale so it weighs light are ‘winning at life’. It’s hardly Robin Hood is it?

It reminds me of a colleague of my father’s who, at the self-service work canteen, used to specialise in covering up his meat with coleslaw and only paying for a mound of coleslaw. Daily.

I hope all those outraged posters are not you going to vote conservative or in anyway support Boris Johnson.
Don't forget he is a thief. Forgetting about a mere £52,000 as you know, it's nothing.
Then out to g all his cash in overseas accounts, betting on sterling falling in value.
You have no right to be outraged over prawns if you in anyway support him.
That is someone who is seriously stealing money from the British tax payer.

@emilybronte, I conclude that significant sectors of the British actually like a posh ex-public school boy who speaks fluent ‘Yoicks, tally-ho!’ and fiddles the books on a grand scale. Presumably there’s an overlap with the people who camp out on pavements before royal weddings clutching tea towels and saying ‘Gawd bless ‘er!’

Baffling, but there it is.

reminds me of school dinner queues, that were so long you'd get pie, chips and peas on your plate and spend so long in the damned queue it'd all be cold

...but anyway Julie, the coolest girl in school would eat ALL her chips for her plate in the queue and then jostle her peas around to fill the gap and just pay for pie and peas.

I bet five housepoints that prawn thief is called Julie.

Did Julie buy Photolove with the chip money? Obligatory in our school

it was Smash Hits for cool girls and NME for the cool boys iirc :o

Thief