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to think my colleague was thoughtless and ruined my lunch?

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livelifememories · 09/05/2014 09:52

Yesterday the canteen at work was closed so two work colleagues volunteered to drive and pick up lunch (we work in an area where it would take 15 minutes to walk to the nearest cafe and only have half an hour lunch.)

It was decided they would go to KFC and McDonalds. I had spent an hour previously complaining that I had got food poisoning last time I went to KFC. So I ordered from McDonalds and said to my colleague, please just get me the American burger of the week.

My colleague returned back with a Louisiana burger which is a chicken burger! When I said I had been complaining about getting food poisoning from KFC that it was common sense that I wouldn't want a chicken burger.

Their excuse was - they had other peoples lunches to get, I hadn't been specific and that they hadn't really listened when I complained about my food poisoning.

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BigRedBall · 09/05/2014 12:12

I bet it was halal too! The cheek of your colleagues going out and getting you lunch!

RahRahRasputin · 09/05/2014 12:16

YABU Confused if you were that fussed about the specifics of your meal, why did you leave it to chance and choose the burger of the week?! Why not just ask for a beef burger if that's what you wanted?

They may not have known what a Louisiana burger was, perhaps just asked for American burger of the week, also if they just had a list of orders they probably just read that out, may not even have known who ordered what.

If you had tried to talk to me about your food poisoning I would have been sympathetic but if you had mentioned the word diarrhoea or made any reference to your bowel movements then I'm afraid I would have switched off. I do not understand why anyone would discuss their bowel movements with someone else, unless for medical reasons, especially in the workplace. I'm not saying you did this but if you did, it may be that they were cringing and waiting for you to stop rather than thinking about whether you would want a chicken burger for lunch.

FunLovinBunster · 09/05/2014 12:16

You could have always got off your agrees and got your own lunch.
Suck it up.

FunLovinBunster · 09/05/2014 12:17

(Massive post spelling failure)
You could have always got off your arse and got your own lunch.
Suck it up.

Anonynony · 09/05/2014 12:21

YAB so U!!!
I can't believe you'd actually write a thread about this, I thought it was a joke

rookiemater · 09/05/2014 12:23

I have noticed that people remember what you talk about - but not always in the way you have intended.

So when on holiday DH went out to get pizzas - I asked for anything except ham and pineapple, because fruit on savoury is a vile and disgusting thing - guess what he came back with! He heard me say yaddayaddyadda - pineapple, I guess.

Or when our friends visit, one of their DDs have a severe nut allergy. For some bizarre reason I always seem to pick up a pack of cashew nuts when I'm shopping for the dinner - it's as if the word nuts has stuck in my head.

Anyway YABU. I remember doing the McDos run hundreds of years ago in our office - no one was ever grateful and it always ended in tears.

Betrayedbutsurvived · 09/05/2014 12:28

OP, Can I suggest you pop over to classics and read the "cutted up pear" thread. I can see more than a few similarities here.

FreudiansSlipper · 09/05/2014 12:31

An hour complaining Grin

what a drama over nothing they got what you asked for

TheReluctantCountess · 09/05/2014 12:31

You spent an hour moaning that you had got food poisoning from KFC whilst people were discussing going there? I'd have got you a KFC.

IDugUpADiamond · 09/05/2014 12:32

So who ate the chicken burger in the end? Did you get fries with it? Did you eat the fries but not the burger?

MackerelOfFact · 09/05/2014 12:33

If you definitely didn't want a chicken burger you should've ordered something that was definitely not going to be chicken! Not something that changes!

I read your post 3 times before I even figured out the tenuous link between the McD chicken burger and KFC.

I don't bother offering to get people lunch any more, I can't be arsed with the whole "oh you got me the chicken salad sandwich but I wanted the chicken ceasar sandwich because I don't like the tomatoes, and I wanted a normal Kitkat, not a Kitkat chunky" palaver.

FunLovinBunster · 09/05/2014 12:34

I might have got you a KFC too. Just to stop you from boring me to tears about your food poisoning.

CuttingOutTheCrap · 09/05/2014 12:37

I'd have bought you exactly what you specifically asked for the American burger- which is exactly what your colleague did. You could have specifically said 'no chicken'. You didn't!

BolshierAyraStark · 09/05/2014 12:39

Never mind, no danger of it happening again eh OP as I doubt anyone will feel inclined to fetch you lunch in future... Hmm

AvonCallingBarksdale · 09/05/2014 12:40

I've never had a KFC Smile OP, you sound absolutely crackerjack. YABU

LiberalLibertine · 09/05/2014 12:42

Ah, there you are op.

Fancy answering if you ate the flipping burger?

OnlyLovers · 09/05/2014 12:43

No, another colleague agreed with me that it's common sense that if I was no longer could eat KFC because of food poisoning then you wouldn't go out and buy KFC.

Um.

The colleague DIDN'T buy you KFC. They bought you McDonalds. If you didn't want chicken you should have said 'Any burger but not chicken.' It's not rocket science.

And I wouldn't have really listened either if someone had spent an hour talking about food poisoning. I'd have lost the will to live.

But hey, you've been so ungrateful that no one will be stupid enough to offer to pick up your lunch from now on, so it's a win–win really.

Edendance · 09/05/2014 12:45

I'd have got you the burger and would have thought it very rude if you'd have complained about it tbh.

You are being unreasonable.

IDugUpADiamond · 09/05/2014 12:46

BUT WHO ATE THE BURGER IN THE END????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AngryAngryAngryAngryAngry

TheSultanofPing · 09/05/2014 12:47

So did you eat it? If you did, have you got food poisoning?

You should have asked for a Big Mac.

FunLovinBunster · 09/05/2014 12:48

Hey everyone, shall we do a McDo run for lunch.
Who's in, and whaddya want?

FunLovinBunster · 09/05/2014 12:49

YY WHO ATE THE FUCKING BURGER WE NEED TO KNOW

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 09/05/2014 12:52

So, Livelifememories - you haven't flounced, but neither have you actually answered the excellent points so many people have made on this thread.

If you didn't want any chicken from anywhere, you should have said so, instead of expecting your colleague to read your mind, at the same time as they were ensuring they got everyone else's order.

You sound really rude and ungrateful, and if I were your colleague, I would. It be getting your lunch for you again, any time soon.

You owe them a big apology, and you need to grow up.

LiberalLibertine · 09/05/2014 12:52

I'll have that American burger of the day please fun Grin

You do remember when I told you I was low carbing though right? So no bun, or salad, it gives me the shits, oh, hold the sauce, it makes my tongue itch. Thanks!!

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livelifememories · 09/05/2014 12:53

No, another colleague agreed with me that it's common sense that if I was no longer could eat KFC because of food poisoning then you wouldn't go out and buy KFC.

Whoops. My mistake. I actually meant -

it's common sense that if I was no longer could eat KFC because of food poisoning then you wouldn't go out and buy chicken

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