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One of my three teens has stolen a bar of chocolate

258 replies

Member869894 · 17/02/2019 15:45

I know it sounds petty but I feel really upset - I had a big bar of chocolate in my bag to share after lunch an hour ago and now it has vanished. Stout denials all around.

I feel like throwing lunch in the bin.

It really upsets me that one of them would go through my bag and steal from me and then deny it

OP posts:
delilabell · 17/02/2019 16:20

I'd deny it was there then scoff it to myself!

KurriKurri · 17/02/2019 16:22

Oh dear Grin
tell them it was a test and they all have passed, and will be rewarded with a share of the chocolate (don't be specific about what type of test)

caughtinanet · 17/02/2019 16:23

I don't think the OP means she's found it, I think she means it WAS at the bottom of the bag.

Are you sure it hasn't fallen out somewhere, it's probably gone on to far now for the culprit to admit it. Have you asked each one individually away from the others?

Whisky2014 · 17/02/2019 16:23

Does the op not mean thats where it was when the teen stole it?

GiantKitten · 17/02/2019 16:24

howdoyoukeepawaveuponthesand
I didn’t think OP was saying she found it, thought she meant it was quite hidden in her bag so whoever stole it had to have rooted through her bag.

Oh I see!
Thanks for that, howdoyou Smile
Back to crossness then. Oh dear.

Waffles80 · 17/02/2019 16:24

I think the OP is saying that’s where it was hidden, not that she’s now found it.

Pumpkintopf · 17/02/2019 16:26

Op have you found it or not?

TinselAndKnickers · 17/02/2019 16:27

Maybe they all conspired and stole it as a unit!

SerenDippitty · 17/02/2019 16:28

Re searching for be wrapper in the bins - they may not have eaten it yet but hidden it for later. I’d be looking under mattresses and things.

HoraceCope · 17/02/2019 16:28
Blush i think she has found it but is embarrassed to come back
ny20005 · 17/02/2019 16:29

This is one of my bug bears & my dh thinks it's really trivial. I'm sick of having food stolen & they lie about it

MargotLovedTom1 · 17/02/2019 16:29

It's a bit random that they would rummage through your bag, unless they knew there was something there worth taking? Presumably it couldn't be seen if it was underneath the book.

WaxOnFeckOff · 17/02/2019 16:30

My mum's method of punishment (there were 7 of us). She'd punish one person, the guilty party would then either be ratted out by the person being punished, one of the rest of us, feel guilty and own up or the person punished would extract revenge. It saved her the hassle of the detective work. Just pick someone and punish them OP and watch to see what happens.

Tinkobell · 17/02/2019 16:31

Unless you'd told them or hinted that you'd bought chocolate.....why would someone be rooting through your bag? Maybe wanted to slip a note out of your purse perhaps?
Is there any possibility you left it on the counter in the shop?

llangennith · 17/02/2019 16:32

If you're already yelling about it of course they're not going to own up! They have nothing to gain by owning up and everything to lose if you're that angry.
Go and buy yourself another bar and get something for them too. That'll make the culprit feel guilty but everyone else happy.

longtimelurkerhelen · 17/02/2019 16:34

@Member869894

I would check that it hasn't gone under the cardboard bit at the bottom of the handbag, otherwise, divide and conquer.

Chocolate theft is punishable by death.

diddl · 17/02/2019 16:39

Oh, I thought that Op had found it-sorry if that's not the case.

As a pp said-why were they even in your bag?

If the chocolate was bought for sharing anyway, it's not as if they were going to miss out!

Original poster
Member869894 · 17/02/2019 16:43

No I have not found it . I had left it in my bag underneath a book. it is not there. I have searched all the rooms with them. None of them seem the least bit fazed which is even more upsetting

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TheRealKimmySchmidt63 · 17/02/2019 16:44

It's a bit of you checked car n everywhere else surely they'd have fessed up by now?

TheRealKimmySchmidt63 · 17/02/2019 16:45

*odd

HoraceCope · 17/02/2019 16:45

has a dog eaten it?
did you put it in the fridge or the cupboard for safe keeping?

whereisthepostman · 17/02/2019 16:46

My DH does this, every time he loses something he starts shouting about who has stolen his thing and then he ends up finding it. Does my bloody head in, just trust your kids ffs.

bluescreen · 17/02/2019 16:47

Have you a DP? Have you asked DP?
Wink

Frangipane · 17/02/2019 16:48

I get the betrayal of trust and all that, and personally I would go out and buy another bar of chocolate and not share it with anyone, just to make a point, but I also think you're in danger of going too far with some of the suggestions here.

I had chocolate stolen from my baking stores. Everyone denied it was them. Dh, I feel, would not have bothered to cover it up if it had been him. Dd knew of the supply but is generally pretty honest. Ds has a history of lying, but I don't think he knew about the supply in the first place. So who took it? The accusations and denials (good humoured) went round and round and I never got to the bottom of it. Every so often, someone mentions it again. I would like to know, perhaps someone will tell me when I am on my death bed? But it doesn't seem like something to go nuclear over.

HollowTalk · 17/02/2019 16:49

I'm another who'd go and buy another bar and eat it by myself!

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