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To be irrationally furious and upset about this

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LosAngeles444 · 06/01/2017 17:43

First week back at work after maternity leave. Work in a serviced office where we share the communal facilities with different companies. About to leave work and went to fridge to pick up my expensive £4 bottle of cold pressed juice and found some bastard has stolen it from the bag it was wrapped in!! That's so low. Trying to be healthy and get back in shape and some sod has done this. Irrationally furious! Any ideas for what sort of message I can leave in the fridge for the thief?!?!

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Solo · 07/01/2017 01:36

Urine is not sterile.

Birdsgottafly · 07/01/2017 01:53

You can't put body fluids in a shared fridge. If you're BF, they usually make a separate fridge available.

It would be a disciplinary offence. If o was your colleague, I wouldn't let it drop, it's disgusting.

So would stealing, so just deal with it properly.

PerspicaciaTick · 07/01/2017 02:09

Buy your lovely green juice.
Accidentally leave it some where warm for a couple of days.
Take it to work and pop it in the fridge.
If it has accidentally gone off, then it will either taste vile or explode all over the fucker who opens it.

GilMartin · 07/01/2017 02:21

Yep Vivienne this can have really nasty consequences.

I remember a case close to where I used to live. At a car garage near where I used to live one of the mechanics added some anti-freeze to his bottle of pop as he was fed up of his work colleague drinking from it and then left it lying around, thinking that the taste would be so vile his pilfering colleague would spit it out. Sadly anti-freeze is fairly sweet tasting and was readily disguised by the sugary drink.

Sure enough the guy took a drink from it, ended up blind and paralysed and the bloke who'd put the anti-freeze in the bottle ended up with a lengthy custodial sentence.

claraschu · 07/01/2017 02:33

Put something horrible tasting but completely harmless in the bottle.

KnittedBlanketHoles · 07/01/2017 02:47

I could keep up a lie about laxatives in a bottle to the police, easily.

Ericaequites · 07/01/2017 04:24

Next time, label the juice with your name and company name. Put up a note in the break room asking the person who took your juice on X date to pay you back and apologize, reminding people to be considerate of others. Taking others' property is theft.

allchattedout · 07/01/2017 07:14

cold pressed juice is full of calories so count your lucky stars, go home and drink cold tap water instead- much better for you/your teeth

That's shit, depends entirely what's in it. At my local juice place, they do a green juice that has 50 calories for a bottle. It only has a tiny bit of apple to sweeten and the green juice from the veg has virtually no calories. Cold pressed juice isn't the same as innocent smoothing.

And GilMartin do you not think that there's a bit of a distinction between anti-freeze and laxative? What permanent damage will someone end up with if they drink laxative?

OK fine, maybe don't piss in it, but make some horrible concoction out of food-stuffs. Reporting to HR is hardly going to work is it.

rumbelina · 07/01/2017 07:18

Just add a load of salt or chilli powder.

Chloe84 · 07/01/2017 07:37

Was it sealed? He may be a serial offender and knows only to take sealed items to avoid revenge by contamination.

Gooseberryfools · 07/01/2017 07:56

The chilli idea sounds good

ThisYearWillbeBetter · 07/01/2017 08:01

OP please report in about what you decide to do.

I'm not place marking, oh no no no

zigzagbetty · 07/01/2017 08:18

Prune juice in the next bottle is probably the way I would go next, but please don't put urine in it or put a note saying you had on the fridge! If I hadn't stolen your juice but used the fridge I would never be leaving anything in there again as the idea of a bottle of pissed in the work fridge is pretty vile!

zigzagbetty · 07/01/2017 08:19

*bottle of piss

StealthPolarBear · 07/01/2017 08:22

Santas but aspirin is medication!

Celaena · 07/01/2017 08:27

To be irrationally furious and upset about this

Yabu to think you're being irrational in your title

Do you have doggie cam you could use briefly to see.who is doing it?

DontOpenDeadInside · 07/01/2017 08:37

Years ago we had a problem with "someone" stealing our milk (milkman). I say "someone" because I knew who it was (neighbours son) but couldn't catch him in the act. So I left a bottle to ripen on the sunny kitchen windowsill for a few days and got up early and switched the bottles. I was in the bathroom, which was at the front of the house, when I heard their door open and close and then him shout "ewww" as he took a swig. Never happened again :)

caroline161 · 07/01/2017 08:53

Reminds me of this!

To be irrationally furious and upset about this
HighDataUsage · 07/01/2017 09:31

Stir in a tablespoon or three of chilli powder in your green juice then sit back and watch.

DieHardISaChristmasFilm · 07/01/2017 10:32

Plastic insect. Harmless but disgusting!

haveacupoftea · 07/01/2017 10:32

caroline Shock that poor woman.

Yeah I would just send an email out saying you had something nicked from the fridge, it was expensive so can it be replaced, and would other people please be more considerate. If that didnt work i'd stake out the fridge to catch the offender at it.

Twolittlejobbys · 07/01/2017 11:22

Ok I googled it! It's not sterile, but neither is tap water. It's still safe to drink as bacteria levels are very low! I'd still pee in it 😂

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