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!!

Has she got a receipt.

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

My late Mother's phone number was very nearly that of a taxi company, a couple of transposed numbers, and she got loads of drunken calls for taxis. I taught her to say 'He'll be with you in 5 minutes' then unplug the phone!

Just report the thread then, if you really think it's not true. It's not difficult to do.

It was your other 'friends'. I suspect if you pop round to their house unexpectedly you will find a lovely candle somewhere in their house. they bought you the chops and laughed whilst eating them with you!

Or....

You kicked over the bag and it rolled out. Its under a box/clothes/sofa somewhere on the floor in your dressing room. The maid hasn't found it yet...

ooh not chops! CHOCS!

But okay, I may as well join in and say that I don't believe this OP either. She's not coming back anyway, I'm sure of that!

You're right, Lizzie. I shouldn't have done that.

I agree lizzie

I was on thread in the beginning but then stepped away as op was so sure it wasn't the obvious explanations

On the plus side I think chocolates are nicer than a candle so you win.

I was on thread in the beginning but then stepped away as op was so sure it wasn't the obvious explanations

Please see also: OP and friend both "laughing" about this.
In real life there would be a lot less laughter: the OP would be freaked out and reviewing security for her house; and friend would think OP is lying, or had had some sort of episode.

Sometimes things just can't be explained. the most plausible option is that someone unwrapped the candle, took it then wrapped the chocs instead. I don't think the BF has regifted because she's not a shoddy wrapper and would have no reason to wrap badly if she genuinely thought it was a candle. The shoddy wrapping (unlike BF) and the fact it's a different gift altogether suggests it was someone else even though it seems unlikely. Could easily be the dog walker. One set of muddy prints just means he took his shoes off. He may have been hoping it was something else. It's unlikely to be the friends who were with you when you opened it, the dog wouldn't rewrap chocolates and your DH presumably wouldn't do that to you..unless he likes practical jokes?

But Mamabear4180 OP seems adamant that it wasn't: DP, DDog, dog walker, best friend, or visiting friends.
So I think we're supposed to conclude "woo"

Just in time for Halloween, too.

Your friend wrapped chocolates.
It doesn't matter what she thinks she did or what she says, she wrapped chocolates.

I think she was probably a bit embarrassed about getting you chocolates so panicked and said it was a candle

Friends who were over on my birthday bought wine and flowers.

Not RTWT yet but my vote is, they also bought chocolates but weren't going to give them to you but they had miscommunications between them; so one thought it was a mistake when they found the un-given box of chocolates in their luggage and put it in your gift bag.

(Maybe they swiped the candle?)

I'm a bit baffled by the friend laughing at this tbh. If I'd spent £45 on a bloody candle for my best friend, I'd be pissed off and wondering where the hell it was! And has the OP actually seen the receipt for herself? Although this in itself isn't infallible - the candle could've been returned for a refund at a later point.

If it's genuine, possibly the DP is having an affair, needed a birthday/anniversary present desperately (having only remembered last minute like some men do), thought 'oooo I wonder what the present friend bought is,' opened it and thought 'oooo yes classy and expensive, brownie points for me,' took it and replaced with the chocs and badly re-wrapped them. He obviously can't confess now given the candle is with another woman.

Or the OP works in PR for Neom and Hotel Chocolat. Hmmmm.... Let me interview all parties - I'll get to the bottom of it. 😂

what bullshitometer says is exactly my interpretation too.

I have no idea - but I guess people will be popping up on MN for years to come asking WTF happened re the candle?

Fabric squares with the wedding invite anyone?
Neighbours putting french doors into the OP's garden?

but my ££ is on there being some bullshit going on somewhere, rather than any woo.

This thread certainly a fab bit of free advertising for Hotel Chocolat and Neom candles. In fact I'll be heading to HC myself to snaffle up the half price halloween offerings precisely because of this thread.

SpamChaudFroid Yes indeed. I'm off soon to somewhere that has an HC. This thread had reminded me to pay a visit

possibly the DP is having an affair, needed a birthday/anniversary present desperately (having only remembered last minute like some men do), thought 'oooo I wonder what the present friend bought is,' opened it and thought 'oooo yes classy and expensive, brownie points for me,'

If my DH opened a candle I doubt it would cross his mind to think expensive in fact I'm pretty sure if I told him it was possible to spend £45 on a candle he would be totally and utterly gobsmacked!

So I think we're supposed to conclude "woo" hmm
Just in time for Halloween, too.

Yes of course.
#Suckedineverytime

@drspouse best theory so far 👌🏾👌🏾

OPs had a bet she can get a load of people talking about that brand of chocolate and candle?