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to ask you to help with my office battle?

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CopperHandle · 07/09/2017 09:16

Bloke and I at work having A Dispute over a fiver.
He believes that the fiver is mine, I believe that it is his.
Cue the Fiver War of 2017.

So far he has hidden the fiver between the keys of my keyboard, in my office trainers (kept under my desk) and tucked in the grid cover of my desk fan.

I have stuck it under his mouse (covering the sensor) and taped it HEAVILY with washi tape (brightly coloured masking tape) to his desk.

Fiver is currently on my desk.

I need HELP, please lovely Mumsnetters - I am very competitive in need of a win this week

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Jux · 08/09/2017 23:36

But you'd miss out on so much fun, WellyMelly.

00100001 · 09/09/2017 07:58

twinkle it's a new fiver.

No ripping!

Booboo66 · 09/09/2017 08:33

Definitely think your mum is involved. Ask her to her face to watch for any facial giveaways.

houghtonk76 · 09/09/2017 12:13

When i was at uni in the late 1990s, a mate let a guy she was friends (not more than friends, pretty sure he was gay) with stay in her halls room one day when she went to lectures (campus uni). When she got back her toy Simba was hanging by a lace from the ceiling above window, with a note attached saying "goodbye, cruel world". Still the best daft friend gag I ever saw.

musicalsangeloftheopera · 09/09/2017 12:20

Because it's a light-hearted game (I hope/assume!) not "srs bizness" welly....?Hmm

PidgeonSpray · 09/09/2017 13:07

Give it to charity and then you both win!! I vote for the donkey sanctuary

FirstTimeMum07 · 09/09/2017 13:09

Love this post

CasanovaFrankenstein · 09/09/2017 16:10

Get a Kinder Surprise, unwrap carefully, open with hot sharp knife and put fiver in capsule, use hot knife to slightly melt edge and reseal.

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/09/2017 16:26

Is op coming back?

Anyway. I've just checked on the Bank of England tests. Apparently a polymer note was tested in the microwave for 10 mins with no metallic elements inside. So how about making a cake in a cup with a 5er in it?

www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/foi/disc101213.pdf see pg 7.

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CopperHandle · 09/09/2017 16:54

I'm here.
Not having a brilliant weekend and feeling a bit sensitive so was avoiding the thread.

I saw fiver on his desk Friday afternoon (he was away) so he's not re-hidden it yet.
Tempted to message him about underwear drawer, but we've never messaged outside of work hours and I don't want to put myself in a vulnerable position and overstep the mark.

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OFuckShitAndBollocks · 09/09/2017 16:55

I hope OP comes back, I'm more invested in this thread than the woman who feel for the gardener! Maybe last night's "taking the fiver out for a drink" as the start of their first weekend together?!

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/09/2017 16:56

Glad to hear you're around. Sorry you're feeling shit. I thought some of the comments may have sent you packing.

Neonrainbow · 09/09/2017 17:19

Nooo don't mention your underwear drawer to him! I mean, your message back to him about the straw being in your mouth was pretty flirty as it was! Grin

This is how me and my dh got together. Workplace banter, a few desk pranks and 7 years on we are married with 2 kids!

Jux · 09/09/2017 17:48

Don't message him. You know underwear fiver (UF) is not work fiver (WF), so it's not in the game, so no reason to message him.

If, by the remotest chance, he gives you reason to think that it did have something to do with him, then you know your mum's in on it too, and you can tell him that a) substitutions were never agreed, and b) bringing in Silent Players is cheating, and therefore YOU HAVE WON. Then he will owe you vintage champagne.

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CopperHandle · 09/09/2017 17:55

your message back to him about the straw being in your mouth was pretty flirty as it was oh dear god, it wasnt was it?! Blush

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OFuckShitAndBollocks · 09/09/2017 18:15

Sorry you're feeling shitty. You could just mention the random fiver you found in your undercrackers when you're at work rather than message him because it is pretty hilarious!

Don't worry about it being flirty, I used to work on reception and the amount of flirting that went on was pretty amazing and fun. Nothing harmful about sounding a bit flirty!

Jg1 · 09/09/2017 18:27

It was flirty and you know it OP WinkGrin

Neonrainbow · 09/09/2017 21:41

Yeah it was ... it really really was Grin

MyPatronusIsAUnicorn · 09/09/2017 22:28

I thought the straw/mouth thing was flirty too. Come on OP, you are enjoying the attention.

Jg1 · 09/09/2017 22:34

Come on OP, you are enjoying the attention.

And why not OP? I would! Grin

iMatter · 10/09/2017 06:58

Please don't mention the underwear drawer to him.

And yes, the straw in the mouth comment was v flirty. No harm in that if that's the way you want this to go. Smile

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CopperHandle · 10/09/2017 09:44

I've just reread the straw comment and now I've got that in mind, it's bloody flirty Blush Blush
I was being innocent on that one! Genuinely warning him that it's been in my mouth, cause I know some 0eople are weird about that. Though perhaps it's a little out of context for you lot as the last sentence is cut off?

to ask you to help with my office battle?
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Booboo66 · 10/09/2017 10:38

I'm going to go against the grain and say it doesn't sound flirty to me. Don't worry about it OP

eddielizzard · 10/09/2017 11:53

don't message about underwear drawer. you guys are enjoying a fun game. i wouldn't ratchet it up at this stage. let it take it's natural course.

Elledouble · 10/09/2017 12:11

It does sound like a fun game. I used to have a colleague with an irrational hatred of Fearne Cotton, so I used to cut pictures of her out of magazines and hide them in her desk.

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