to not own up to eating the nuggets?

[NuggieThief]

The other day a couple of my workmates got McDonald’s for lunch. They were in the break room whilst I was but finished before me and left all their rubbish on the table. I got up to clear it up and noticed a box of 6 nuggets had been left amongst the mess. I got a bit greedy and demolished them I was due my period and trying really really hard not to eat junk food but I couldn’t resist them. I thought they were not wanted.

Anyway about an hour later my other colleague came back from an appointment and one of the colleagues who had been to McDonald’s said “your nuggets are in the break room”. I then realised they weren’t leftovers at all and I’d eaten my workmates nugs!

I felt really bad but was too scared to say anything and it’s turned into a bit of a witch hunt round the office. The thing is so many people had been into the break room it’s almost impossible to pin it on me. I managed to get into work early the other day, slip £5 into my colleagues desk to cover the nuggets then went out for a coffee and came back to the office at normal starting time.

But people are still going on about who the nugget thief is and the longer it goes on the more worried I am about saying it was me.

AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen, I've been fighting the urge to get the new spicy nuggets.

I think it's game over & I'm having McD's for dinner.

@GhostBusting, what you needed was a poo knife.

Me too @AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen. I’m starting to suspect the OP is not, in fact, a nugget thief at all. But is actually a very clever advertising professional working for a nugget manufacturer.

Were they the new spicy ones?

I've tried the new spicy ones. Just blazing hot with no other flavor. I wound up binning them and getting a filet of fish sandwich instead.

Well played, OP. Well played...

(Jumps in car and speeds to nearest McDonalds)

You sound a right shower of muppets . Chicken nuggets that were left out for an hour wouldn’t have been fit to eat, anyway.
Tell Miss Marple to get on with her fucking work and forget about it.

If they were happy to leave you cleaning all the mess, then they will be fine with the £5 note for the replacement nuggets.

Not sure why people think it's disgusting that you ate them, I mean what was all this rubbish? Wrappings and paper cups? It's not like they licked them and put them back with the rest.

It's really not a big deal, 6 nuggets left amongst some rubbish! Don't admit to it now, anyway those nuggets would have tasted cardboardy after 20 minutes anyway. Can't believe the fuss that's being made both in your office and on this thread..

Chicken nuggets that were left out for an hour wouldn’t have been fit to eat, anyway.

Why not? They weren't for days in the sun

Op, did they really leave their rubbish? This would be unusual in most break rooms. Or did you eh, spot the nuggets and just have them?

Either way I don't think you can say anything.now. It's too embarrassing.

You've done well to evade detection. Now go to McDonald's and reward yourself with more nuggets.

It's too late to own up now. Just chalk it down to a bad decision (by which I mean a bad decision not to own up straight away, not letting uneaten and untouched food go to waste that you thought was finished with is perfectly understandable) and forget it

This time next month, everyone will be wittering on about something else.

YABU to bother with nuggets at all, they're nowhere near as nice since they reduced the salt in them.

You should join the Miss Marple duo. Leave fake clues and red herrings and compile lists of all comings and goings. Send daily email updates about it. That’ll put you in the clear.

Also, can people stop saying “nugs”?

They clearly don't have enough work to do if they've got time to play Sherlock Holmes about it.

Forget it. It was a few McDonalds nuggets, FFS.

You probably did them a favour by eating them. Imagine leaving cooked chicken nuggets sat in a warm environment for over an hour...yuck?

I think I'd keep quiet and let it develop into a break room legend that gets talked about for years to come. The details will change and become more embellished over time and won't resemble anything like what really happened , so there's little danger of them figuring out it was you.

@ElizaDee I will not google such things at work but yes that would have done the trick

If you ever leave that job, you need to leave a goodbye cars in the breakroom and end it with P.S. I ate the nuggets.

@GhowstBusting www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3147368-AIBU-to-want-to-get-a-poop-knife

@PeggySuehadababy Most Mcdonalds food had a small window in which it's hot and delicious.. twenty minutes later the nuggets go hard and cardboardy, the fries limp and cold.. it's not good. The breakfasts last longer!

You probably won’t need to own up. If the office detectives or any other colleagues see this thread they will know that they were stolen by a woman of menstruating age who was sitting opposite the McDonald eaters at lunch, was in the break room before them and left after them. That must narrow it down a bit.

Never apologise, never explain! Seriously, don't own up now - the window of opportunity has closed.

This one will go down in office folklore, whenever anything goes missing they'll mention it. You might need to get a new job.

I can sort of understand why people are making a big deal of it as it is theft. In our office food often goes missing. Chocolate and lunches from the fridge etc go walkies and it really annoys people because it happens a lot and it seems the thief has been among us for a couple of years. As a PP said if you have lunch in the fridge, and then it’s taken, you might not have time to go and buy something else.

However, I do think it’s rank that they left all the rubbish out. Someone could easily have thrown it all away.

On the other hand it is also rank that you are others’ leftovers.

It would be weird if you were to say something now, you can’t turn back the clock and you gave them £5, so leave it as is... and don’t do it again!