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Would you have taken bread and milk left outside a closed school?

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HurdyGurdy19 · 02/09/2026 20:48

At the end of our road is a lower school. They don't go back until Monday next week.

On Tuesday morning, when I went past the school, they'd had a delivery of bread and milk, which was left outside the school gate.

This has happened a couple of times previously, after holidays.

Would you have taken the items, given that the school wasn't going to use them?

I went out a couple of times on Tuesday, and there were no cars in the car park, so obviously not a teacher training day.

I don't know what happened to it - if someone else took it. It could still be sitting there, for all I know. I've not been out again since Tuesday morning, and I'd forgotten about it until now, when I've just seen a bread advert on tv 😅

Would you have done anything? Or just left it (as I did)?

OP posts:
parabella · 02/09/2026 21:35

ShakyBake · 02/09/2026 20:58

It's not worth the cost of bread op. Please remember what happened to Jean Valjean from Les Miserables, 19 years he ended up in prison and that didn't include any milk

You win mumsnet today.

TY78910 · 02/09/2026 21:36

Our school does do this (in term time) and they send out a message to parents (milk, fruit available) but nothing outside of term time so I would assume it’s a delivery of sorts left outside for someone to take in.

dicdicnurse · 02/09/2026 21:40

ShakyBake · 02/09/2026 20:58

It's not worth the cost of bread op. Please remember what happened to Jean Valjean from Les Miserables, 19 years he ended up in prison and that didn't include any milk

😂

Flannelfeet · 02/09/2026 21:40

HurdyGurdy19 · 02/09/2026 21:33

I know 😊

But if there had been cheese there - well, I can't, hand on heart, say I'd not have filched it. Cheese is my downfall.

<wanders off dreaming of Danish Blue spread on Hovis digestives>

🤣 we all have our vices 🤫

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