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Original poster

to not make friends with the woman who stole my best tupperware box?

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:32

It was a really useful size. Rectangular, but as tall as it was wide. And it was one of those firm ones, with a nice green clippy lid. I bloody loved that tupperware.

She seems a nice woman, and I could do with a few friends in the area, but a woman who doesn't respect the sanctity of another woman's tupperware box is a non-starter, isn't she?

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belgo · 03/12/2011 15:33

Did you not ask her for it back?

misdee · 03/12/2011 15:33

how dare you, that was my tupperware box!

MyChildDoesntNeedSleep · 03/12/2011 15:34

Yeah, ask for it back, you doofus! Grin

valiumredhead · 03/12/2011 15:34

I'd hire a hit man!

MyDogAteMyMincePies · 03/12/2011 15:35

Leave the bastard Xmas Grin

theincredibequeenofwands · 03/12/2011 15:35

I love my tupperwares too. I understand.

Make friends then remind her she has it. She may have forgotten.

Sparklingbaubles · 03/12/2011 15:37

She has probably written her name on it now.......

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:37

Well I held off asking for it at first because I didn't want to look like Crazy Tupperware Woman. I wanted to give her the chance to give it back freely, and thus our friendship could flourish. But she never did and now I feel the tupperware window has closed and I might seem a bit odd.

"Remember that tupperware box I left at your house 3 months ago? Can I have it back please?"

Oh yes, I say stole. Pedantically speaking I left it at her house. But I am pretty sure possession is 9 10ths of stealing my bloody tupperware box. Legally speaking.

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:38

NO Sparkling, you bugger. Don't say that. I am anguished now.

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Sparklingbaubles · 03/12/2011 15:41

In permanent marker probably Hugh. Shock

sprinkles77 · 03/12/2011 15:41

she might well be thinking "I wish hugh would get her finger out and collect her bloody tupperware that is cluttering up my kitchen. It's such a weird shape I can't make use of it for anything"

theincredibequeenofwands · 03/12/2011 15:44

I don't think you should feel ashamed of being Crazy Tupperware Woman either though. It saddens me that you feel that way.

You should be true to yourself.

Although she's probably got her mince pies in it now.

:(

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:46

No.

No, that could never happen Sprinkles because, as I explained earlier, it is really useful. Unusual, certainly, but very very useful. I am surprised it is not a more standard size and shape frankly. I wonder what the tupperware people are thinking? (Pull your fingers out tupperware people). It's sort of chubby. Stubby even. With rounded corners.

I often put soft fruit in it for picnics. Apricots, sometimes.

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PaintYouByNumbers · 03/12/2011 15:46

Just mention it casually next time you are at her house. "Oh, before I go, have you got that tupperware box I left here x amount of time ago?" Upfront, straightout, if she's written her name/cracked it/lost it she'll probably squirm uncomfortably own up.

LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 03/12/2011 15:46

Oh. Is it me? Blush I have at least 4 items of useful but randomly acquired tupperware. No idea where they come from.

LoopyLoopsWoopDeWoops · 03/12/2011 15:47

Is this item slightly taller than it is wide? Did it come to my house with fruit in?

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:57

No, not fruit. Dark chocolate and raspberry cupcakes.

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BleurghUna · 03/12/2011 15:59

It doesn't sound as if she has intentionally "stolen" your tupperware! Perhaps she hasn't noticed it has been left? Does she have a very cluttered or untidy house?
When you leave something at someone's house the onus is on you to alert them. I think that's how it works. Give her a ring and ask for it back!

pregnantpause · 03/12/2011 16:09

Ask for it back under the ruse of christmas. " just making a batch of mince piesfor Xmas and realised that i still havent picked up my tupperware! I'll take it now and get it out of your hair shall i?"

Catsmamma · 03/12/2011 16:13

excellent plan there from pregnantpause!

I bet Mrs Tupperware thief has chucked it out though.

Pixel · 03/12/2011 16:13

It won't seem odd if you ask for it at this time of year anyway. Just say you are going to have a big bake up to get ahead for Christmas and you need the Tupperware for the freezer?

SpaghettiTwirlerPrancerVixen · 03/12/2011 16:20

Go with what pregnantpause suggests!

FellatioNelson · 03/12/2011 16:27

I have no idea who you used to be Hugh but I'm feeling in my bones that it was someone I must have hearted dearly. And you clearly used to be someone. I'd have noticed you before otherwise.

If not, then never mind. I think I love you now, anyhow.

Sparklingbaubles · 03/12/2011 16:31

It could be under her car catching oil drips or something by now, Shock

itsatiggerday · 03/12/2011 16:31

Oh pants it's not me is it?

I have a tub that I'm certain I never bought and fairly sure I didn't inherit from DM (whose stuff seems to migrate randomly between hers and ours). But I can't even vaguely remember when it appeared, so no hope of figuring out whose it might be. It's not got any green I don't think but otherwise suits your description.

I'm not a thief, honest! I don't use it because it's not mine. Then I think I should because someone might recognise and claim it. But then they might be too embarrassed and just hate me for using it glibly.

Just tell me and I'll return it instantly!

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