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!!

[loosenknot]

this sort of thing happens to me all the time. I have a terrible memory and it gets worse as I age. objects are constantly reappearing in strange places. she had a little fugue.

[BeatriceBee]

Did she wrap the gift some time ago and then forget what she had bought you? Maybe she had intended to get you a candle, but settled on the chocolates instead and then forgot that she had done that. Anyway, I know that as soon as I wrap a gift I have forgotten what it is, especially when there are quite a few as at Christmas time. I label gifts as I wrap them and write a list of what I bought to help me remember. Sadly, I still find that when my daughter opens her Christmas presents they are as much a surprise to me as they are to her! Could it be my age?

[Spotsandstars]

I think the couple bought the chocs and helped you eat them and took the candle on with them...have you told them the mystery? I think you need to interview them.

[DiseasesOfTheSheep]

Perhaps one of your friends on your birthday mistook your dressing room for the bathroom (could it have been dark?) and accidentally kicked it.

Or worse

[SirVixofVixHall]

The candle would be in glass wouldn’t it ? They usually are.

[InsomniacAnonymous]

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[Shewhomustbeobeyed1]

Can’t believe there are 18,500+ posts on this thread

[Rachie1986]

Very weird!

I fear this one may never be solved..

[Annonymiss123]

^ bold fail ^

[Annonymiss123]

A very rude woman phoned me up once and very angrily told me that her haberdashery goods had not arrived yet. I am not a shop.

For some unexplainable reason I told her that I was extremely sorry and would have the boy bring them around on his delivery bike immediately

[Flashingbeacon]

I’m too invested. How could anyone break a candle like the one in a link? It’s in a tin. Even then a broken (£45) candle can just be lit and melt back together. My cheapo Ikea candles certainly do. Destroying a candle of that type completely would require a lot of force or heat.

[DesertSky]

Assuming your friend was correct in recalling she smelt the candle as she was wrapping it, it’s unlikely she wrapped chocolates instead.
I think the clue is that the bag with the candle in was on the floor of your dressing room - suggesting that somebody accidentally kicked it and heard it crack/break. Perhaps one of your friends on your birthday mistook your dressing room for the bathroom (could it have been dark?) and accidentally kicked it. They happened to have the chocolates (as a gift for you) with them and did a hastened exchange?
Or it really is your partner and he’s just not owning up to it?!

[Betsy86]

feathers wtf thats so strange!!!

[TheGirlWithAllTheFeathers]

Sorry, should have read 'pulled out' .....damned autocorrect.

[TheGirlWithAllTheFeathers]

Let it go. It’s one of life’s mysteries. I was once chucked in a kiddie ball pit and lost my car keys. Spent ages looking for them. No joy. Had to get hubby to drive out with spares. Three years later my toddder DD was rummaging in her anorak pocket for a hankie annulled out he lost keys. She was not born when thee keys were lost. Life has odd moments.

[dayswithaY]

I've not heard of Neom before but now am resisting the urge to Google as that's obviously what is intended here.

[Leapfrog44]

@HISONESONME yeah I came to exactly the same conclusion!
Nice one 'OP'

[JessicaJonesJacket]

It was DP in the dressing-room with the candlestick . . .

He accidentally dropped the candle and quickly replaced it with the chocs hence the hasty wrapping. Also explains why he remembered your wrapping comment and why he's blaming it on your friend's 'error'.

[NellieBee]

update?

[Leapfrog44]

@dayswithaY you're probably right.

Another possibility is that OP works in marketing department for Neom..

[THISONESONME]

I suspect Neom and Hotel Chocolat have the same pr company.

[Leapfrog44]

update..???

I'd ask to see the receipt
I'd ask the shop to check the CCTV (possibly on a different pretext)
I'd keep the wrapping for examination
I'd pretend you know something you don't (i.e. have solved the mystery) to trick husband/friends etc into giving something away
Film the conversations and then send it to a body language expert for an opinion on who is lying / telling the truth

I'd FIND that candle no matter what.

And then I'd report back here and put us out of our misery.

[dayswithaY]

WheredidtheMortificados has it spot on. It's highly unlikely that there was a mix up in the shop, stolen by a dog walker or taken by the husband. That's all nonsense, highly amusing thread but nonsense. The only explanations are that the friend made a mistake, and is sticking to her story. She either bought a couple of gifts for two different people and gave her the wrong one or she is bluffing about giving her an expensive candle instead of chocolates. She knows this cannot be proved one way or the other so all she has to do is ride it out. The other explanation is the OP works in PR and has played a blinder.

[Polkapjs]

Thanks for the reminder to treat myself to a candle though

[Dillydallyer]

OP where have you gone? Have you solved it yet? I feel invested. I need to know you are not just a good storyteller!!