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Original poster

CF ate my chocolates

28 replies

SaphiraBlue · 09/04/2023 10:39

My son (13yo) bought me a box of my favourite chocolates for Mothers Day. Complete surprise, did it off his own back, I felt really special that he’d done this and was proud at how thoughtful he’d been.

I am currently on a diet and so have dipped into the box now and again as a treat. (Hadn’t even eaten half the box yet) I came home yesterday and decided to have one, when I found the box, exactly where I had left it (above the fridge) with all chocolates gone except 1 (dark coffee bean).

My DP has form for eating everything going in the kitchen, but even he knows not to touch my chocolates. The only other person who has been in our house was his best mate - who also has form for eating us out of everything in our cupboards.

He is a really good friend to DP, I like him to talk to, despite thinking he’s a rubbish husband to his wife and he’s quite insensitive and obnoxious. DP is shocked that the chocolates have gone but has easily dismissed the incident as “well clearly CF has eaten them”

AIBU to be pissed off that he’s eaten my chocolates? I’m also annoyed that DP is so unapologetically not bothered.

I had to go to bed early last night I was so annoyed and couldn’t talk to DP. I completely get that it’s an overreaction but I’m just really P* off by it. There’s cupboards full of food, there are all sorts of treats but he took the chocolates from above the fridge and can’t help feel it was done slyly as he hadn’t mentioned it to DP and had done it when DP wasn’t in the room. CF is loaded and so I feel he has no awareness that something like the chocolates were a special treat.

OP posts:
Botw1 · 09/04/2023 10:41

Tell him to replace them

Or don't let him back in your house

LeilaDarling · 09/04/2023 10:42

Get your husband to text or call and say lightheadedly even to replace them.

BusterGonad · 09/04/2023 10:42

You are not over reacting. Regardless wether it's a box of chocolates or a packet of crisps, no one should go into your house and help themselves. He has no manners and wouldn't be welcome in my house again.

ChickenDhansak82 · 09/04/2023 10:46

I'd get revenge.

Buy another box then inject them with super hot chilli liquid and put them somewhere this friend will no doubt find then eat them! He will then learn his lesson!

I find helping yourself to food in someone's house rude enough, but taking someone's chocolates that are on top of a fridge is really awful!

thegrain · 09/04/2023 10:47

That's really sad I'm so sorry OP

Oysterbabe · 09/04/2023 10:48

I bet your husband ate them really.

Inthesamesinkingboat · 09/04/2023 10:49

Rude. Posh chocs are take one at a time anyway- not scoff half a box in one go. I’d be pissed as well

3luckystars · 09/04/2023 10:50

Your husband them and you know it.

Hermanfromguesswho · 09/04/2023 10:51

Deffo the husband ate them and is deflecting!

Redebs · 09/04/2023 10:53

Get your husband to replace them. Next day delivery.
Your poor son!

KimberleyClark · 09/04/2023 10:55

Who the hell helps themselves to food from other people’s fridges and cupboards? He’s obviously very badly brought up.

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SaphiraBlue · 09/04/2023 11:22

ChickenDhansak82 · 09/04/2023 10:46

I'd get revenge.

Buy another box then inject them with super hot chilli liquid and put them somewhere this friend will no doubt find then eat them! He will then learn his lesson!

I find helping yourself to food in someone's house rude enough, but taking someone's chocolates that are on top of a fridge is really awful!

Love this idea!! Definitely thinking up some evil plans for revenge!! 😈
I’m sure he’d laugh if chilli…. Laxatives though 🤔 although if he ate them in our house I don’t think our toilet could take it - he’s already broken one of our toilets in our last house.

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ChickenDhansak82 · 09/04/2023 12:29

SaphiraBlue · 09/04/2023 11:22

Love this idea!! Definitely thinking up some evil plans for revenge!! 😈
I’m sure he’d laugh if chilli…. Laxatives though 🤔 although if he ate them in our house I don’t think our toilet could take it - he’s already broken one of our toilets in our last house.

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Go with the chilli! You can get some unbelievable hot chilli powders that you can mix into a paste, and some amazingly hot sauces too.

I lived in shared house at uni, and not only did 3 of the girls plan a dinner party and exclude the other two of us, they then had the audacity to ask us to be out of the kitchen by 5pm and hinted that could we go out for the evening! We were so p*ssed off so hatched an evil plan - my friend was half indian so we asked her mum to send us the hottest chilli powder she had, and whilst they weren't looking we stirred it into their creamy chicken sauce. Let's just say they couldn't work out how it ended up so spicy and inedible! This stuff was eye-wateringly hot! I like to think of it as karma...

Ludo19 · 09/04/2023 12:32

BusterGonad · 09/04/2023 10:42

You are not over reacting. Regardless wether it's a box of chocolates or a packet of crisps, no one should go into your house and help themselves. He has no manners and wouldn't be welcome in my house again.

This 100%

Mildmanneredmum · 09/04/2023 12:48

Or even korma

wishingitwasfriday · 09/04/2023 13:12

I'd message him with a link to the box of chocolates and tell that you expect them to arrive either before he comes round again or he can bring them with him. I hate people like this, why do they think everything is there for them to have. I'd never help myself to things like that in a friends house.

SinnerBoy · 09/04/2023 13:19

Mildmanneredmum · Today 12:48

Or even korma

Arff! That was my first thought, too!

Anyway, even if he's told, he sounds like the type to laugh it off. I'd get an old toothbrush and use it to clean under the rim, then smear all the remaining chocolates in a new box.

If you're not as evil minded as me, you could just tell him you'd done it.

LookItsMeAgain · 09/04/2023 13:30

Botw1 · 09/04/2023 10:41

Tell him to replace them

Or don't let him back in your house

1 million percent this!

He eats something that isn't his, must have clearly been a gift (as not many people I know keep boxed chocolates in their press/cupboard, they tend to keep snack sized bars of chocolate instead) and he went and ate them anyway.

Replace or refuse entry.

Sparklfairy · 09/04/2023 13:35

ChickenDhansak82 · 09/04/2023 12:29

Go with the chilli! You can get some unbelievable hot chilli powders that you can mix into a paste, and some amazingly hot sauces too.

I lived in shared house at uni, and not only did 3 of the girls plan a dinner party and exclude the other two of us, they then had the audacity to ask us to be out of the kitchen by 5pm and hinted that could we go out for the evening! We were so p*ssed off so hatched an evil plan - my friend was half indian so we asked her mum to send us the hottest chilli powder she had, and whilst they weren't looking we stirred it into their creamy chicken sauce. Let's just say they couldn't work out how it ended up so spicy and inedible! This stuff was eye-wateringly hot! I like to think of it as karma...

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You can buy something called psycho serum off amazon. Dissolve some in boiling water, and brush the solution over the new chocolates.

I would totally do this.

BusterGonad · 09/04/2023 14:38

I wouldn't bother with the chili, laxatives etc. That's just making a joke of it, and therefore making it something fun and forgivable. Just tell him straight that you're pissed off and he's no longer welcome.

Rollerpiggy · 09/04/2023 14:42

I would feel attacked in my own home personally. I would tell dh straight that his mate better replace them now or he is not coming in the house ever again. I would be fuming. It’s the height of rude and entitled and that would not be happening again.

suzyscat · 09/04/2023 14:45

ChickenDhansak82 · 09/04/2023 10:46

I'd get revenge.

Buy another box then inject them with super hot chilli liquid and put them somewhere this friend will no doubt find then eat them! He will then learn his lesson!

I find helping yourself to food in someone's house rude enough, but taking someone's chocolates that are on top of a fridge is really awful!

This, but laxatives

suzyscat · 09/04/2023 14:47

Ah you beat me to it OP

ReadersD1gest · 09/04/2023 14:49

God, don't dick about with chillis and laxatives.
Just tell him they were a present from your son and he needs to replace them.

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