Oh The Horror! (lighthearted)

[SeeWhoRustsFirst]

Scene witnessed at playgroup: mum pours coffee, adds milk, stirs it, asks for sugar. Someone passes the sugar, saying 'there's spoons just here', to which mum replies 'I've got one thanks' (meaning the one already in her cup). Proceeds to put wet spoon in communal sugar tub !

Mumsnetters - do I continue building a friendship with this poor unstable woman?

YABU - obviously everyone puts a wet spoon in sugar, you dry spoon obsessed freak
YANBU - aaarrghghgh run!

Ffs some people are just animals!

What is it with these double dipping types?

I don’t have milk in my coffee and One time I let a lady at toddler group make my coffee and she stored my coffee with her milky coffee spoon. I could smell milk so couldn’t drink my coffee. It was a sad morning

I was at a party buffet thing last week, lady with bread stick was dipping, biting, dipping. Does she not know the done thing is using the spoon to put some dip on your plate?

Don’t be friends with her type op, she will have you wet sugar dipping

Bet she has a loo brush too!!

FFS some people are just animals.

I don’t see many animals making tea and coffee. Perhaps I need to get out more

At least she hadn't licked the spoon (or had she ???? )

I have no time for double dippers (drinks or food dips) Luckily for me I have resting catsbum face which is always useful on these occasions.

P1nkHeartLovesCake - luckily I don't take sugar myself so I should remain safe from her influence in this area!

I'm pretty sure my dog could be trained to make tea, I mean, on a good day she can manage to bring a ball back to within six feet of me...

The spoon had been in her cup not her mouth.

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lol at 'resting catsbum face'! No I'm pretty sure it wasn't licked or I wouldn't have been able to contain my disapproval!

But yes, I too have no time for public double dippers. Can't guarantee I've never done it myself at home though..

NoSauce, that's not the point! It makes all the sugar crystallise so the next person can't get any, or gets horrid rock hard coffee-stained chunks

I mean, on a good day she can manage to bring a ball back to within six feet of me.

Do you then lift it? It sounds as if your dog has you very well trained.

It has taken me years to train my best friend to use a dry spoon to put sugar in his tea, then to use the original wet one to stir it. There is no need to use the dry spoon to stir the coffee when there is a wet one sitting there!! Won’t anyone think of the environment?!!! 😱

I miss the days of the jam dishes, where you used a spoon to place the jam gently on your bread, toast, etc. And don’t get me started on using the same knife that was used to butter the bread, to take the jam from the jar or crumbs in the butter/jam! I’ve been known to throw out contaminated Jane. yes I know. Think of the environment, hypocrite

Oh yes I see your point OP. We’re neither sugar nor coffee people here

Well, I don’t know who Jane is, but if she’s contagious, I’d probably throw her out too!

contaminated Jane

FFS some people are just animals.

I have often asked my cat to make me a cup of tea. All I got was a quizzical look.

Actually the thing I can't understand is why, if you know you're going to want sugar, you dip the spoon in the coffee to stir the milk before adding the sugar.

But anyway, so long as she doesn't come round my house and put a wet spoon into my 2kg bag of sugar I expect I can cope, going forward

I have often asked my cat to make me a cup of tea. All I got was a quizzical look.

Maybe it's more of a coffee drinker? Hot chocolate? Ovaltine?

Hmm - is chocolate toxic for cats I wonder

SeeWhoRustsFirst Cat knows that chocolate is toxic to cats.

Maybe I should have tried coffee but surely a tea bag is easier to manage than a scoop of grounds in a pot for little furry paws?

Stay clear of this psycho.

BIL will take a wet spoon, spoon the coffee in to the mug then put the wet spoon covered in coffee granuals straight into the sugar so not only is my pristine bowl of pure white sugar now clumped together and wet, it's also peppered with wet coffee granuals. Massive brown chunks in my sugar making it unusable. Why? Who wants to make a cup of tea that has old , wet bits of coffee in it too.

I know this is a light hearted thread but it's fucking disgusting and disrespectful to everyone else who may need to use the sugar. I actually told him off last time. If he chewed with his mouth open too I would seriously have to reconsider him being allowed to visit ever again but luckily he isn't too bad.

How very self-preserving of cat.

Yes that's true. (Although we only buy leaf tea now as bizarrely it actually works out cheaper). Maybe cat just likes milk and nobody's told it it's lactose intolerant.

Meanwhile, dog is bringing ball right to the sofa today, so I'm reckoning I can crack coffee making by dinnertime.

Instagrump - we only have coffee for guests, so the jars tend to sit there for a couple of months at a time. If someone put a wet spoon in there, I think that would be the last time they visited our house !!!

But yes, it does seem oddly oblivious behaviour.

I let a friend move in with me once and for the prettiest, most well presented girl you've ever seen, behind closed doors she was an absolute pig. In her room she had 14 half drank bottles of milk in different stages of decay (or cheese making process? I'm not sure) piled up on her window sill. I actually banned pot noodles because she would leave the powder spilled all over the counter top along with the empty sauce packet almost glued on with sauce. She never ever cleaned it. Ever.
I had to hide the sugar and would put about a centimetre of sugar in the bowl because she would not stop putting coffee in it. I'd have to bin the lot when it got pretty rank. I took my sugar directly from the hidden bag.

These days DH and the kids are well trained so I never have to put up with such animal behaviour.

Stay away from her. Only monsters put sugar in coffee

What is needed are spoons (for holding sugar) and sticks (for stirring) thus sending a clear message that spooning and stirring are two separate processes that must never ever overlap.

While I'm frothing with pent up rage can I mention my XH (note X) who would butter his toast and then use the same knife to help himself to jam. Leaving both butter and toast crumbs in the jam.
That in itself would have been grounds enough for the divorce.

YANBU, coffee in the sugar gives me the rage.

MIL always puts her buttery, crumb covered life into my name. Why?!