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Original poster

AIBU to *not* eat the egg?!

221 replies

LazyDoll · 03/04/2021 23:46

So on Thursday afternoon we got in after a half term day out (walking) and a parcel was waiting on my porch.
It was addressed to ‘The Lazydoll Family’ with a typed label and delivered first class Royal Mail.
Assuming it was an Easter gift it sat in the lounge until today when I thought it was probably wrapped inside so should open it so I could thank the sender and say we’d ‘unwrap’ tomorrow.
Inside was an Easter egg.
Just in its box.
No message.
No card.
No idea where or who it’s from.
I’ve messaged all the usual suspects.
Nada.
We are a family of 5.
4 of them are happy to share the egg.
I cannot do this if I DON’T KNOW WHO IT’S FROM?!?!
Eat the egg?
Don’t eat the egg?
That is the question!!!!
Help prevent an Easter family feud (it IS a G&B Organic Milk).....

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LazyDoll · 04/04/2021 07:50

And Easter GrinEaster GrinEaster GrinWill0wTree

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Urbacodon · 04/04/2021 07:50

Bin the egg. Having said that though, DH just sent MIL a lot of Easter chocolate from Amazon and didn’t bother putting a note in. Thankfully she called to ask him if he’d sent it

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LazyDoll · 04/04/2021 07:50

It’s addressed to my family Hmm

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LazyDoll · 04/04/2021 07:51

Sorry above was for MissClarke

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Brunt0n · 04/04/2021 07:58

My first thought was - some sort of work thing from either you or your husbands workplace. We’ve had similar at Christmas.

My second thought was whether I’d eat it. I remember one year coming back from a meeting in London via Paddington Station on the Thursday before Easter weekend and someone from GWR was handing out small Smarties chicks on the platform as you got on the train. It was only after I had eaten it that I thought wow, that would have been a semi efficient way to poison a bunch of people😳

eatsleepread · 04/04/2021 07:58

I would totally eat it! Seems strange that someone would send you just the one to share though. An anonymous tight-arse! WinkGrin

User478 · 04/04/2021 08:00

If you're not going to eat it you'd better rub some (more) poison in and pass it on to a neighbour or someone else you fancy assassinating (ideally someone less suspicious than you).

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 04/04/2021 08:00

neighbours sometimes distribute chocolate eggs (or the lindt ball things) around the block,
sometimes on the building WhatsApp.
there might be chocolate outside the door now.

& if one of the above PPs is true, not only is there chocolate outside the door, if ( if? ) I eat it, I'll get an extra lindt bunny.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 04/04/2021 08:05

it's all a big Easter Yolk.

I expect someone will come out of their shell later and ask if you received their Egg-squiste gift.

The comments on here about it being poisoned are just egg-straordinary.

MN can be an egg-cellent source of information but really a lot of stuff already here is overegged eggs-aggeration.

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LazyDoll · 04/04/2021 08:19

Some eggstremely eggcellent comments and ideas here but still no clearer on the sender Easter Hmm also - family still alive so no airborne poisons (yet)

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PankhurstTastic · 04/04/2021 08:27

I'd totally eat it if the packaging was intact! I've had a mystery garden plant (relative ordered it online and had assumed firm would put a note in saying who it was from), and a mystery box of edible treats addressed to a different name, we turned away the delivery then the driver came back and left them on our doorstep - turned out they were a gift from a relative & the firm had got the right address by misheard our surname. Never even occurred to me not to eat them.*

*unless you are in hiding from the Russian government

ladyvimes · 04/04/2021 08:28

I’d eat it. The chances of someone having poisoned it (wth) vs someone just forgetting to put a message in it are tiny?

Why would someone do that?!!!

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 04/04/2021 08:31

just checked
no chocolate outside the front door
Tesco or Sainsbury?

GloriaSilver · 04/04/2021 08:32

Tampered with? Are you a family of spies?

Daydreamsinglorioustechnicolor · 04/04/2021 08:37

I'd definitely eat it.

RedHelenB · 04/04/2021 08:42

@MadreDios

Am I the only person on here who would truffle it and fulfil its Easter destiny? Easter Grin
No I would do the same.Mumsnet is a different world!
SamMil · 04/04/2021 08:42

I received a mystery box of chocolates at Christmas. I ate them without even thinking about it - it didn't cross my mind not to Hmm. Maybe I should be more cautious in case of an assassination attempt Blush

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 04/04/2021 08:44

Even if it’s an assassination attempt, you’d die happy?

margotleadbeter · 04/04/2021 08:48

I once received a box of very nice chocolates anonymously. I was suspicious because ex P's sister is absolutely bitter and twisted and I wouldn't trust her to not do something horrid. I kept them in quarantine for a couple of days and eventually found the sender was a friend from somewhere I used to live who thought I just needed a RAOK. They were bloody delicious!

EffYouSeeKaye · 04/04/2021 08:49

Proceed with caution. You need some intel. Do you have a chis?

doctorhamster · 04/04/2021 08:52

One Easter egg for a family of 5? It'll have been sent by one of the mumsnet competitive under eaters.

viques · 04/04/2021 09:00

I do think some people are missing the point

It’s called novichok . The clue is in the name.

Daffodil Easter Shock Easter Envy Easter Smile [ tbugrin]Easter Blush[ tbuconfused]Daffodil

viques · 04/04/2021 09:02

Oh dear, two of my bunnies must have nibbled the egg. RIP bunnies grin and confused, you were only supposed to look pretty, you weren’t expected to join in.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 04/04/2021 09:05

So. You don't know who sent it and cant find out. Packaging is compromised. Hmmm
I wouldn't eat it. It's probably fine but probably isn't good enough

I don't need chocolate THAT much..

PADH · 04/04/2021 09:05

I work for a very small company. If anyone did Easter gifts it would’ve me (it wasn’t me).

Plot twist - you've sent it to yourself and forgotten.