Friend helped herself to Calpol while house-sitting

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Got a message from my friend (call her L) who had been house-sitting and dog-sitting (for no pay) for her friend ('D') who has a lovely massive house while D was away. L told me that she felt unwell and helped herself to some Calpol in the house. However, she forgot to replace it and now D is going bananas at her saying it wasn't there when her son needed it. L doesn't know what to do... was she BU in using it in the first place? 🤔

Yes, I think D found out shortly after getting home. Although they live a short drive from a 24 hour supermarket so getting hold of more shouldn't be an issue. I think D was more annoyed at the principle of L helping herself to stuff and not saying anything.

Incidentally, when L stays over at mine, she often helps herself to stuff, sometimes without asking... (Usually food / meds). Last time she visited, I dropped her off at the station and she casually mentioned "oh by the way, I opened your jam, hope that's ok." It wasn't, actually, because I hadn't intended to eat it soon and we had to throw it away after it had been open for too long 🙄.

I’ve just looked - about 20ml. Only about 1/4 of a bottle 🤣

I drank Calpol the other day when I had a headache and couldn't find any paracetamol it was one of those under six ones too so half of the very small bottle equals 2 paracetamol, D was being ridiculous though.

An adult dose of Calpol 6+ is up to 20ml (four syringes).

How much Calpol did L have if there was none left in D’s house? Or is this going to be one of those twist-in-the-tale stories where the ‘Calpol’ is Tramadol?

When your friend was staying over, if she had asked you if she could have some jam would you have said no, or would you have said yes that's fine?

Incidentally, when L stays over at mine, she often helps herself to stuff, sometimes without asking...

That’s a big drip feed! If L has form then this was probably the last straw for D.

wow, would anybody expect somebody doing them a favour to sit there in discomfort!/

Well, if it was the under 6 Calpol, I'm going to assume this kid is under 6yrs given the PFB reaction, then she could have drained a whole bottle over two adult doses.

Plenty of adults take Calpol. I know because my adult dd does. For some reason she is unable to swallow tablets, and believe me she has tried over the years. When I sometimes buy the Calpol for her, I get the usual spiel from the pharmacist as to whether the child who needs the Calpol has taken it before. I explain it is for an adult and the pharmacist has told me it is quite common for adults to buy Calpol for themselves. So there you go.

I am with the friend who took the Calpol. Yes, she should have replaced it, but how can D begrudge her FRIEND some pain relief a) when she needs it, and b) when she is doing D a favour at the time.

Why does the friend have a habit of helping herself to meds? If she needs them that much she should carry painkillers in her bag

And adult dose of calpol is 20mls of the 6 plus!

'D' is probably over reacting! But I think it does depend a bit were there tablets? Was it one does or several? Was the text a 4am stress text?

I'm sorry, what...jam goes off?

My jaw dropped at the jam story.
Bloody hell.

I think the OP is D. It's now gone from the friend using some Calpol whilst house and dog-sitting, to her just waltzing into friends' houses and raiding their fridges

^^ This.

elvis56 - wow, that's pretty rude! 🙄 No I am not D, or L come to that, who earns a lot more money than me and can even afford a cleaner which I would love!

I see l funds her lavish cleaner including lifestyle by raiding others cupboards I see where this is going!

An adult can always get themselves to a 24hr supermarket or wait till morning.
A screaming baby on the other hand.... and a parent in the middle of the night with said baby and potentially other kids that would need woken and taken....
I know which I think is in more need of the carpool being where it should be.

I don't have a dog so don't use dog sitters. However, isn't it quite normal if you have a babysitting to offer tea, coffee etc and say help yourself to anything you need.
I wouldn't expect them to empty my fridge and cook a full meal but stuff like a few biscuits, toast, juice etc would be quite reasonable. If the person was unwell I'd also be perfectly ok with them using something from my medicine cabinet.
Surely the same applies for a dig sitter. Perhaps your friend should pay someone next time and agree exact terms if she wants to control what they can and can't do.
I used Calpol once in holiday when I had a bad headache and realised I just had medicine for every ailment my kids could have but nothing for me. It tasted pretty horrible but did the trick.

Was it previous jam? I’m trying to think of jam that costs more than £3 a jar max?

L sounds like she does people a lot of favours for fuck all. So she goes Ross Gellar and robs back whatever she can find to compensate:
“Salt shaker? No,no,no”
“Salt? Yes, yes, yes”

Incidentally, when L stays over at mine, she often helps herself to stuff, sometimes without asking... (Usually food / meds). Last time she visited, I dropped her off at the station and she casually mentioned "oh by the way, I opened your jam, hope that's ok." It wasn't, actually, because I hadn't intended to eat it soon and we had to throw it away after it had been open for too long

Sounds like the Calpol is just the straw that broke the camels back for D.

Op says D was ott. I would say she’s her twin judging by the jam comment.

I’m with some friends right now. None of us could say we didn’t have more than 1 bottle of Calpol all at different levels in the house. I have 3!

I don't like wasting food! Plus I just think it's polite to ask your host first before helping yourself...