to think this is so strange - present gone missing!

[whereismycandle]

Have name changed but frequent poster.

It was my birthday on Sunday & last week (Tuesday) I saw my best friend very briefly and she gave me my present to open on the day. I opened it on Sunday and she had bought me a nice box of chocolates – lovely, I like chocolates. Anyway I text her to say a generic thank you she text back have a lovely day – all’s well and I good. But I’ve just spoken to her and she didn’t get me chocolates. She bought me a very ‘naice’ candle.

How weird is that. She has absolute no reason to lie – we’ve know each other forever and don’t have ‘expectations’ in the sense that sometimes we spend a lot, sometimes we don’t. I asked if it could have got mixed up with someone else’s present and no, she had no other birthdays going on. The strangest part is the gift bag and wrapping paper were exactly what she had wrapped the candle in – but it was chocolates.

What the hell has happened to the candle? We had a laugh about it but honestly, it’s so weird!!

[KurriKurri]

Can you buy Hotel Chocolat chocolates at any other outlet apart from Hotel Chocolat itself? - that might explain her pikcing up chocs when she thought it was candle.
no idea why someone would swap the gifts - HC chocolates and candles are both perfectly nice gifts, someone would only swap surely if they thought their gift was inferior in some way.

If I were your friend - it would have been caused by some sort of crazy absent minded episode on my part - as I regularly do stuff like this But I don't know your friend, chances of her being more compos mentis than me a fairly high

[NoSquirrels]

Your friend is mistaken somehow- she wrapped the Hotel Chocolat but thought she was wrapping the candle. At some point she’ll discover the candle and go Oh Fuck!

[Cabochard]

I love the assumption that this is an ‘age related’ issue!
“Is she over the age of 40?”

Hope you find out what happened op

[SirVixofVixHall]

Someone else gave you chocolates and happened to have the same paper ? Had she ordered the candle online, been sent chocolates by mistake but not noticed because the shape of the box was right and she was in a rush to wrap it ?

[Kittykat93]

That's so strange!! I was thinking she'd obviously mixed up presents but if she has never brought anything from hotel chocolat then that is just plain odd!!

I need to know the outcome of this

[BlankTimes]

X-post Emilizz34

[BlankTimes]

Does she have the receipt? Failing that could she check her bank statement for the amount that the candle cost, if it was an individual purchase?

[Emilizz34]

What does it say on her receipt?

[BitOutOfPractice]

How odd! Did she actually see the candle or the actual wax or was it in a fancy box?

I'm puzzled and intrigued

I'm also very impressed that you shared your nice chocolate with others. You are nicer than me 

[whereismycandle]

ohmygodtheykilledkenny that's a good point - the chocolates weren't massive though (kind of a sqare box rather than rectangle) so it could have been a similar ish size.

jojo2232 i will - it's killing both of us - we've gone over and over it!!!

audthedeepend ahh i love candles, i like all the old lady gifts me.

[SchadenfreudeUndeadified]

I have a dog which could explain the knocking over, but I don't think he can re-wrap that neatly.

'Tis a fact - paws are a bugger when it comes to wrapping things up. I have wrap all my dogs' presents to Mr Schadenfreude, due to difficulties with folding and the hazards of sticky tape/fur combinations.

[Seaweed42]

Did you open the chocolates on your birthday? And open a few other things at the same time?

[champagneplanet]

Whoever did the swap has good taste in chocolate, I hope they were the filled ones  totally misses the point of thread...

[AudTheDeepMinded]

As a side note, I blinking hate candles so the outcome is a huge bonus in my eyes! Hope you get to the bottom of it!

[jojo2232]

there will definitely be a simple explanation.... and i need to know what it is... please update us if you find out :) x

[OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny]

If someone in your house were to have swapped the gifts for whatever reason would they have had access to the same paper to wrap the chocolates?

I'm thinking that a candle would have been wrapped in less paper than a box of chocs making it difficult for the same paper to be reused IYSWIM

[artemisdubois]

Ah, I didn't read the OP carefully enough. If friend wrapped the candle herself and hadn't bought anything from Hotel Chocolat then that really is strange!

[whereismycandle]

peachydream it's been on the floor in my dressing room. i'm the only one who goes in there as DP has the wardrobe in our bedroom.

seaweed42 she's 36 and very switched on. She is so flummoxed - she can't understand whats happened as she literally wrapped the candle before coming to meet me, she said the left over paper and scellotape was still in her kitchen when she got back. And although she has heard of the chocolate brand (Hotel Choclat) she has never ever bought them.

[Seaweed42]

Could your friend have had a couple of wines at lunch, went shopping, looked long and hard at a candle, then decided on chocolates. Sobered up later and forgot about the chocolates part.

[Seaweed42]

What age is your friend?

[artemisdubois]

Did she order online and have it gift wrapped? Are the chocolates and candle brands that both could have been bought in the same store?

I received a completely incorrect gift from a friend who ordered it from amazon and had it gift wrapped and shipped to me directly. She'd ordered me a book I'd mentioned, but what arrived was an educational PC game for primary school age kids

[Peachydream]

Ooh mysterious.

Where has the gift been since your friend gave it to you- was there opportunity for shenanigans between Tuesday & Sunday?

[Tinty]

Did she also wrap a present for someone else that week? Maybe she put the wrong present in your bag and someone else got your candle!

[Likeshyt]

Sherlock Holmes is the only person who can unravel this mysterious disappearance!!!

[whereismycandle]

Frogsrus

Interesting. But I don't know who - my friend lives alone and my DP wouldn't have even noticed the present was in the house, it was somewhere he wouldn't go near. I have a dog which could explain the knocking over, but I don't think he can re-wrap that neatly.