AIBU to *not* eat the egg?!

[LazyDoll]

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).....

@LazyDoll

Ok so still not eaten the egg. It remains intact at this time. I’ve tried all sorts of Google wizardry to try and track the branch of posting down incase that helps but Royal Mail is hard to crack!! Anyone a postie or have any inside knowledge?!

Hello...?? thats a lot of effort for a bit of chocolate. Just get rid of it, why are you getting so obsessed with it??

OP can you tell me your address and I will come round and eat it for you.

I'd go into a family lockdown within this national lockdown. No communication with the outside world and crawl when you need to pass a window. Unwrap the egg and put the empty box in the bin. Eventually the sender will realise their plot has worked and move on to phase two. But you will be ready and have the element of surprise.

How can you bear the suspense? It needs cracking open to check for listening devices/body parts/incriminating photos. Do it now and report back!

Geez! I very often send presents to people and miss the bit where you add the message. Not deliberately, I'm just hopeless.

Friends often post on facebook that they are delighted to have received flowers/wine/candles and they would love to know who from. I picture them thinking it's from someone really special and have high hopes on who.

I don't want to burst their bubble and fess up it's only boring me...

If your on facebook, post a picture with a thank you to the anonymous sender and say there was no card inside - hopefully someone will come forward....

What has everyone on here done that makes them concerned someone would go as far as to poison an egg and send it to them?!

I wouldn't eat it and this thread has made me laugh.

Some of the people getting annoyed that you think it has been poisoned are the funniest.

Also, just one egg for a family? That's the strangest bit.

Is it from work?

Feed it to a dog. If they die it's definitely poisoned and you need to reexamine your life (not least because you just killed a dog).

@BanningTheWordNaice

What has everyone on here done that makes them concerned someone would go as far as to poison an egg and send it to them?!

We could tell you but then we’d have to kill you ! We only eat creme eggs left for us at pre assigned dead drops.

Who WOULDN’T eat the egg?!

UPDATE: sorry for radio silence have been egg hunting and Simnel cake eating and sneaking in an Easter family run...

So I have found the sender!!!!!

It’s also not a simple explanation and you need a (not so brief) back story...

Years ago (we’re talking at least 16) my grandparents gave my sister and I miniature ornament gifts. They were very sweet and thoughtful but weren’t something we’d have on display.

One of these was a 3cm high kingfisher figure.

This started a game of trying to sneak the kingfisher into each other’s homes by whichever stealth means possible.

It started with us lobbing it inside each other’s car as we drove away or chucking it in a handbag or baby bag. This progressed over the years and the kingfisher has since been baked into a cake, posted to Thailand inside a cracker to be presented by waiters on a plate on our Christmas Day honeymoon meal (that one was explosive), flying in helium balloons in my sister and my brother in law’s bridal suite at their wedding, hanging from the rear view mirror when I collected my new car. You get the gist.

Now The Kingfisher hadn’t been seen for years and I’d totally (clearly!!) forgotten all about it....

Until FaceTiming my sister and her family this morning whilst my parents visited us and ‘showing’ them the mystery box (which of course I’d checked with her yesterday and of course it totally wasn’t from her and she was as clueless as me etc etc!) and as she was talking me into opening the box (resealed expertly) and unwrapping the egg (pretty good job at rewrapping!) I felt the weight of contents inside it and I just KNEW!!! The Kingfisher had returned home!!! They’d cut into the egg. Inserted The Kingfisher. Meticulously resealed it...and well you all know the rest!!!!!!

So mystery solved. No poison. No explosives. The Kingfisher has Risen!

Happy Easter All (we’re busy plotting our revenge attack)

Excellent update! Time to get creative with that kingfisher's next journey...

oh that really is the MOST EGGS-ellent update!

I keep meaning to do something like this to torment my own children, but what with all the restrictions I have not had much of a chance.

Now that’s a fabulous ending to the story. How lovely!

margot we’re wracking our brains. I REALLY need to get her good after this .

Grannyornamentlover aka my sisters secret squirrel Mumsnet friend. That’ll teach me to skim read peoples Mumsnet names!!!!!!!!!! Hi

Since it’s Green & Blacks I would have eaten it Someone must like you to buy nice chocolate plus spend £4 on postage?

Oh, just saw the update!

I'm so glad I read to the end, what a brilliant update!
Happy Easter

The kingfisher is far more exciting than poison!
Reminds me of Inspector Clouseau and his assistant ambushing each other all the time.
I'm sure the hive mind of MN will be able to think up a cunning plan. Or perhaps you need to think like Baldrick

I wish your kingfisher story had been the last episode of 'Lost' as it was both exciting and satisfying. 🐣

That's hilarious. You'll have to let us know how you intend to return it!

yeOldeTrout

I have eaten (wrapped) Mars bars I found lying on the ground so probably not the person to ask.

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