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Original poster

to be angry with my neighbour about a spoon?

277 replies

Hullygully · 26/03/2013 15:25

It may sound petty, but two months ago my neighbour had a coffee morning (I wasn't invited, fine, we aren't best buds or anything), and she asked me if she could borrow some teaspoons. I lent her four, and she gave three back a few days later. They were wrapped up inside a napkin so I didn't notice until she'd gone that one was missing. Time just went by without seeing each other so there wasn't a casual opportunity to mention it.

I know it's only a teaspoon, but I feel really angry that she has basically stolen it. I don't feel I can mention it now because it's been too long and it is only a spoon, but I feel angry everytime I make a cup of tea and am reminded. I can't help thinking she must know. They are quite distinctive sppons, she must know when she sees it that it isn't hers.

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TheNebulousBoojum · 26/03/2013 15:50

But it's not just my cutlery drawer Hully my love.
My kitchen usually has around a dozen teaspoons, but DS has a hundred or so and he swaps them over as the fancy takes him. So I'm never quite sure what I will find.

I blame my grandmother, she liked spoons too. I thought DS would explode with joy when she told him that there were different spoons for different materials.
She also had a souvenir collection...Smile
Don't mock my ignorance, you will make me sad.

KatieMiddleton · 26/03/2013 15:50

Alternatively, in the dead of the night water the words

THIEVING CUNT

into her lawn with weed killer.

SadGiantPanda · 26/03/2013 15:50

At least you're not facing extinction. :(

BalloonSlayer · 26/03/2013 15:50

You are Miss Hilly and I claim my $5

YABU if you demand she sack her help.

TippiShagpile · 26/03/2013 15:51

Yes. She burnt my fucking table. It was old and temporarily resident in our garage but still, she burnt my fucking table.

Can you tell it still annoys me?

GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:51

lol at katie and geraldine's ideas.

Geraldine's suggestion reminded me of a great thread in classics where a jackdaw ran into a mners bedroom terrifying her to death. Amongst all the sensible suggestions from MNers on how to rescue the bird and set it free again psammead suggested 'go in there and bang a pan with a wooden spoon to see what happens'

LadyBeagleEyes · 26/03/2013 15:52

Are these the same neighbours you thought were dead?

HotCrossWeaselInSinisterBonnet · 26/03/2013 15:52

GetOuef

I assume Hully is a responsible parent and keeps spoons away from under 18's. unlike some lazy good for nothing mothers.

Rest assured I am judging the very Monkeyfuck out of you right now, Madam.

GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:52

Good lord. Fuck the spoons. It's all about the table now.

GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:54

Grin at keeping spoons away from under 18s.

I know. She should eat yoghurt with her fingers and thumbs. Baby led weaning is still appropriate for teenagers.

HotCrossWeaselInSinisterBonnet · 26/03/2013 15:55

We lent the neighbour at our rear our chainsaw. It came back broken, with mysterious staining.

GeraldineAubergine · 26/03/2013 15:56

Right here's my last suggestion, I'm afraid it's a dangerous one. You could model a new spoon out of sodium, then in the dead of night break in and do a switcheroo, safe spoon for potentially lethal one. Soon as she makes some Horlicks, Boom! Terrifying reaction. She will never reef your cutlery again, noway nohow.

TheNebulousBoojum · 26/03/2013 15:56

You can cut someone's heart out with a spoon. It must be true because the Divine Alan Rickman said it.
You have three Hully, go and wreak horrible vengeance upon her.

GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:57

You can also stab someone through the heart with a pencil, a mafia man in a film said so.

KatieMiddleton · 26/03/2013 15:58

Send her a spork in the post. That'll learn her

Tee2072 · 26/03/2013 15:58

I'm with Nebulous and bedmonster. I have no idea what's in my eating tools, as my great grandpappy called them, drawer.

In fact I recently reached in their for a teaspoon for tasting during cooking and came up with a spoon I have never seen before...

::waits for Hully's head to explode::

GreenLeafTea · 26/03/2013 15:58

I thought you were joking about burning the table. That's awful!

My sons keep stealing spoons and using them to dig in the garden because obviously the assortment of spades and trowels are not adequate. If I had silver spoons I'd hide them in my high cupboard with my wedge wood plate and my posh tea cups.

Original poster
Hullygully · 26/03/2013 15:58

Yes haha it's all very well making jokes but I am cross. I have telephoned Roger (Neighbourhood Watch Chair) and asked him to pop in for a sherry. I'll see what he thinks. Perhaps other neighbours have had small items go missing.

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GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:58

You need to go and wreak venegance like Samuel L Jackson.

Go and scatter a few bushel full of spoons in front of her with a blunderbuss in your hand and say 'i DARE you motherfucker, pick up a spoon'

GetOeuf · 26/03/2013 15:59

Bushel?
Blunderbuss?

Am I a pirate from the 1760s?

OOh arr avast ye.

Tee2072 · 26/03/2013 16:00

People actually ask people over for sherry?

Are you living in a 1924 drawing room comedy?

Have I stumbled upon Lord Peter's Case of the Missing Spoon?

KatieMiddleton · 26/03/2013 16:00

To be accurate, if the tables was burnt it was not borrowed. It was stolen and repurposed.

snuffaluffagus · 26/03/2013 16:00

I want to know what happened after she burnt the table - did you demand a new one?

AND also, Hully, I'll go and get your spoon back. This is about more than a spoon.

ginslinger · 26/03/2013 16:01

I want to know about the burnt table and if neighbourly relations were ever resumed

KatieMiddleton · 26/03/2013 16:02

Or sleep with her husband. Cheeky mare Angry