Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

to ask you to help with my office battle?

304 replies

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

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
oldmanfromscene24 · 07/09/2017 18:09

Oh my gawwwd he loves you! And I love this thread! Feckin hate all the 'just donate it to charity' posts - have you lot forgotten how to flirt?! Or never got into a long standing joke / prank?!!

fucksakefay · 07/09/2017 18:13

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster
CopperHandle · 07/09/2017 19:16

I THINK he's a single dad.

He's a really kind guy, he's helped me out with a few things since I've been working there and gives me free movie passes each month that he gets off his mate. He put all of the Game of Thrones episodes on a USB stick for my Mum as he knew she was unwell and didn't have access to them.

In short, i owe him massively and he should keep the fiver!!!

OP posts:
Original poster
CopperHandle · 07/09/2017 19:16

I THINK he's a single dad. sorry, that reads a bit randomly. I was answering a PP question!

OP posts:
HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 07/09/2017 19:18

Donate to charity! If you can't decide, people less fortunate can have it!

Notevilstepmother · 07/09/2017 19:22

Tell him you will keep the fiver if he comes for coffee with you after work.

Go on go on go on....

BringOnTheScience · 07/09/2017 19:29

Two relatives of mine had a similar thing with a big plastic fishing net float. They got very elaborate... VERY!

One thought they'd won when they got it served to the other on a silver platter in a restaurant, complete with salad garnish.

Months later, they had surgery to remove a benign lump. When relative came to visit, one of the nurses came over to ask "Would you like to see what we removed?" and produced one of those steel kidney shaped bowls with a cloth draped over it ...

soupforbrains · 07/09/2017 19:30

I love how pushy we all are haha. I wonder where he's put the fiver...

mummmy2017 · 07/09/2017 19:39

Fill a jar with boiled sweets and stick the fiver in the middle, so you see more and more of it as you eat the sweets.
Or bake a cake and ice it inside.

Original poster
CopperHandle · 07/09/2017 19:39

BringOnTheScience

Bahaha, love it!

Sorry to ruin the image of an office romance for everyone but even if he is single, I'm pretty certain I'm not his type Smile he's just a kind guy with a similar sense of humour

OP posts:
soupforbrains · 07/09/2017 19:58

Well. Even if he's not going to be your actual husband I still think he is work-husband material.

It's so very important to have someone you can have some fun with at work.

raspberrycordial · 07/09/2017 21:42

We had one of these situations with our old neighbour but it was an old spoon not a fiver-it went back and forth, the spoon sent holiday postcards and pictures of itself, it was inside an Easter egg etc etc. The finale came several months after she thought we had forgotten about it when we got married and the spoon (always pronounced thspoooon as in basil fawlty episode) was in her wedding favour. The whole thing probably went on for well over a year.

Flyinggeese · 07/09/2017 21:49

Oh, agree OP that a bit heavy and I was just about to post saying I think you two should just go out for a coffee!

Sounds like he cares though...

bluebump · 07/09/2017 21:53

My parents and their friends had this but with a royal wedding mug, it went back and forth for years. It was hidden in their house, filmed and the YouTube link emailed to reveal its location. It was posted abroad, brought out in restaurants by staff etc.

macaronip1e · 07/09/2017 21:54

Raspcordial Funnily enough we have a spoon fight in my family. My dad and his sister have been fighting over not wanting it since they were children - so a 60 year spoon war. Last appearance was at my Aunty's place setting at my wedding...engraved with her name.

winobaglady · 07/09/2017 21:55

Fold it carefully and insert in a pad of post-its
Remove insert from a biro, replace with rolled up fiver - leave on desk and watch he doesn't bin it
Put a bit of tape on it, attached to a piece of paper with words "don't tell me about this fiver, but tell me you like my tie" on it and attach to his back
Can you secret it into the gent's toilet?
In/under a plant pot?

Pancakeflipper · 07/09/2017 21:56

Open a joint account for yourselves with it.

BoysofMelody · 07/09/2017 21:56

Put it towards the hotel room as you've clearly got the hots for one another.

stealtheatingtunnocks · 07/09/2017 22:01

I'm pretty certain I'm not his type smile he's just a kind guy with a similar sense of humour
you didn't say he was't your type...

fucksakefay · 07/09/2017 22:07

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

raspberrycordial · 07/09/2017 22:11

60 year spoon war?!?! Ours started as the spoon appeared randomly in our car park-it had been run over lots and was moved by us into neighbour's space and by her into ours, just silly really but fun getting creative.

macaronip1e · 07/09/2017 22:13

fsf re: spoons in my dad's case, when he was little he and his sister were convinced that the spoon in question was much heavier than any other spoon in the cutlery drawer....and would want to avoid it at all costs at dinner time as the "heavy spoon" did not make for good eating. I think on reflection they both realise it's just a big soup spoon.

HelenaJustina · 07/09/2017 22:13

Best thread today, put it in a trust fund for your future yigather...

HelenaJustina · 07/09/2017 22:13

*together

Original poster
CopperHandle · 07/09/2017 22:17

stealtheatingtunnocks

Moot point if I'm not his, though I he is the opposite of anyone I've dated, so I guess not my "type", not that I'd say I had one.

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread