She stole my croissant.

[sparkyspark]

Lighthearted but quietly seething.

Had my lunch break and colleague joined me as she “wanted to get some fresh air”, I said I’m going to this cafe as I’m craving a croissant and she said she’d come with me.

Very busy inside cafe with one table left (no one behind us in the queue) and so I said I’ll go sit at the table and you order your food. When she sat down I got up and ordered mine and was told “the last croissant has just gone”

As I sat back down I told her “so annoying the last croissant has just gone” and she said - yes I know I ordered it.

😠😠😠 (the word croissant has lost all meaning)

@saltinesandcoffeecups Heheh, love that thread!

Putting butter on a croissant? Cut out the middle man and just eat the butter straight from the block. The tiny flakes are just acting as a butter delivery system at that point.

Croissant thief should be punished though. I hope you made a typically twee, passive aggressive comment while tinkly laughing and head tilting.

Take your break by yourself next time.
The work mate is selfish.

Another great reading comprehension demonstration.🙄FFS!

It wasn't even a LONG post! face palm

@sparkyspark That would have annoyed me too! It would be the very, very last time that co-worker went to lunch with me and I would have zero trouble telling her why. I think some people are habitually in need of a quarter to buy a clue on how to socially interact as a member of the human race.

I would also hold a lifelong grudge.

This is the level of petty I am on board with.

I am slowly but surely letting go of my grudge against my DF. He took the chocolate-chip cupcake that ended up having the most chocolate chips in it. But, it's a difficult trauma to let go, since it was so recent.

Recent being 1966. 😉😭😉

In that situation I would have ordered the croissant for you, seeing it was the last one left so you didn't miss out in case somewhere else ordered it first.

I would also be silently seething, it is the thoughtlessness of it. Me first.

There is no hope for you, I'm afraid.
Budge up and make room on the naughty step for me.
I don't have butter with my croissants. If I'm at home I have jam. In France I dip them into my cappuccino. Then I get flakes in my cappuccino. So, oh dear, I have to have another cappuccino 😁

@DogfordCats that's really awful - I don't eat meat either so would have been incredulous

This is the only language some sisters understand. Best comment ever.

Sounds about right! I also harbour a grudge from that year. I was 5 years old and in hospital recovering from having my tonsils out. A three course meal was served at lunchtime. I had been trained to eat everything on my plate and I like my food, so I slowly but surely worked through thick pea soup and mince and tatties, looking forward to pudding, which was ice cream. Imagine my horror when I finished the mince and was told that I'd been too slow and there was no ice cream left. If there are any nurses here who were working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary on the children's ward in 1966, know that I have never forgotten, far less forgiven, this cruel act.

Well, your FIRST post asked if her friend knew it was the last one, when, in fact, THIS was in the OP's opening post: "As I sat back down I told her “so annoying the last croissant has just gone” and she said - yes I know I ordered it.".
I guess the point sailed past you....and is still going...farther and farther....

If the croissant was still on her plate, I would have said "oh for me? How nice you remembered!" and grabbed it and wolfed it down before she could react.

Well judging by OP's replies on this thread, I can only assume the work colleague's eviscerated and buttery remains are currently being picked over by dogs in a back alley adjacent to the croissant shop.

TBH I can’t imagine any adult of normal intelligence thinking ‘croissant’ might mean any old pastry!

Well done!!!!!!!

I would have got to the counter and discovered no croissants left and then not bought anything and walked out without looking at her.

If she had said anything later I would have denied it ever happened.

🤣🤣🤣

Okay, this made me laugh WAY too hard!

Take it a step farther...The police come to arrest her for the murder, and she exclaims to the police, "But, but, I HAD to do it! She knew I wanted a croissant, and she TOOK bought the last one and ate it in front of me!"
The police then remove the handcuffs, step back and say, "We are sorry ma'am! We'll put it down to justifiable homicide!" The next day, the police, to help her overcome that tragic day when she did not get the croissant, they bring her a bag of warm, freshly baked and super buttery croissants.

😆👏🏻

Completely on your side OP!

DS1 is quite severely autistic. Years ago, when he was 5 or 6, we lived in a little village where the cafe did the most phenomenal apple flapjacks. It was our after school treat. We stood in the queue and could see about 10 on the plate in the glass counter thingy. DS1 was very loudly chattering away about his apple flapjack so probably everyone in the entire cafe knew why we were there. Woman immediately in front of us in the queue says to the cafe person “I’ll have all of the apple flapjacks please”. She took all 10 and walked off with them whilst DS1 was screaming, wailing, punching me, having the mother of all autistic meltdowns because now he couldn’t have one. It was a long and violent walk home.

I hope she enjoyed her ten apple flapjacks. DS1 is 18 now and I still sometimes think of her.

Can I come work with you please?

I’ll be nice to you since you have a nervous disposition 💐

I saw this yesterday and didn't comment, and just saw the title again this morning. How pathetic am I. I am seething for you- hours later! A warm croissant with melted butter and strawberry jam for me please. Heaven. And in work when you've been imagining it. And you have to go to the effort of getting it. And it's what's kept you going for those last few meetings. The thought of it. And the INJUSTICE. It would be easier if no one had a croissant. I love a treat.