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To feel guilty eating this chocolate?

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familygermsareok · 09/02/2015 16:08

Saw a bar of Green & Blacks dark chocolate on ground just outside Tesco. Unopened, probably fallen out of someone's bag/ trolley.
Looked around and only saw one person loading her car post shopping so I went up and asked if it was hers. She said no, but she had also seen it on the ground on way out. So I went back and put the bar on a ledge off the ground but right next to where I had found it. It was very obvious to anyone walking by.
Finished shopping 40 mins later and chocolate was still there. Figured no one was going to come back looking for it now so I took it home.
I really don't think IWBU to take it home, other alternatives were leaving for someone else random or taking back into the shop, and what would they have done with it ?
So why do I feel so guilty eating it? Confused
I keep thinking of the poor person who was so looking forward to their treat and now won't have it [ sad]

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BlueberryWafer · 09/02/2015 16:17

How absolutely disgusting. Some poor family have probably saved all week for that bar of chocolate, they will get home and realise it's gone. They will probably drive 30 mins back to the shop to look for it, go ask the staff to check the CCTV and see you stealing it.

I'm totally kidding - hope you enjoyed your chocolate Grin I would have taken it too!

squoosh · 09/02/2015 16:20

You need to stand naked on the village green and flagellate yourself with birch twigs as penance for such greedy thievery.

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familygermsareok · 09/02/2015 16:21

Grin funnily enough I keep thinking about CCTV and getting seen taking it at the end but not seen initially trying to reunite it with its rightful owner. I'm imagining the security people rolling their eyes and tutting!
I should have left it for someone with less of a guilty conscience complex.

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Davsmum · 09/02/2015 16:22

Enjoy it! If you didn't have it someone else would have. May as well be you.

WhataMistakeaToMakea · 09/02/2015 16:22

No I wouldn't feel guilty- it was clearly abandoned. You fulfilled it's destiny. Far better it was eaten than left to freeze and have to go in the bin

DoJo · 09/02/2015 16:25

I cannot imagine anyone would actually go back to retrieve a bar of lost chocolate, so the alternative was probably that it would have gone completely to waste. Don't let the guilt ruin the deliciousness...

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familygermsareok · 09/02/2015 17:06

squoosh Grin I do deserve the birch twigs, I do, but the naked part would punish the poor innocent passers-by as much as me!
If I share it with DH and the DCs I will be a good person again, won't I? or will I just condemn their souls to a fiery eternity too

I am getting over the guilt now. It is a very lucky chocolate bar to be found by someone who has enjoyed and appreciated it as much as I have Wink

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Endler32 · 09/02/2015 17:09

Don't feel guilty, if the chocolate bar was that important to the owner they should have looked after it better Smile, finders keepers.

florentina1 · 09/02/2015 21:41

I forgive you, you behaved very honourably. Not sure if the kids will forgive me though for being so unjust.

Blondie1984 · 09/02/2015 22:25

We are always being told to cut down on food waste so technically you were setting an example to the rest of us.....

Andrewofgg · 09/02/2015 22:28

Yes but squoosh what if you enjoyed the birch twigs too? Grin

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