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!!

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.

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

feathers wtf thats so strange!!!

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?!

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.

*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*

^ bold fail ^

Very weird!

I fear this one may never be solved..

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

Shewhomustbeobeyed1 "Can’t believe there are 18,500+ posts on this thread"

Look! I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!

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

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

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.

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?

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.

A family member once sent me a birthday gift, of two packs of baby wipes,when I was about 65 !!. nobody in the family had babies at all. On mentioning it later, she said, oh I thought I had sent you three packs of 10 denier glossy tights ha ha..

Just read through 14 pages expecting there to be an answer by now 😩

No good outcome here - either your best friend or boyfriend is lying to you!! 😬

@NotBeforeCoffee How long do you give your last post then? 20 minutes? 

Probably counts as troll-hunting, Coffee?

Troll hunting is against the rules, @NotBeforeCoffee surely you're aware of that. You're meant to report the thread, not spoil discussions by suggesting the OP isn't genuine. I reported the thread and I've been assured that there's no reason to think the thread isn't genuine.

HTH

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."

The OP said about her friend "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 sellotape was still in her kitchen when she got back" and also in another post
" she's never bought a box of these particular chocolates. She said she wrapped the present 5 mins before she left to meet me and it was absolutely the candle!!"

Troll hunting? I was just passing opinion. I mean the situation is so unbelievable that other people are saying a ghost must have taken it🙄