Someone stole my sandwich!!!

[Hungrymom]

This happened 4 months ago now and I’m still angry about it 🤣.

Following a very rough pregnancy and an extremely long labour I had my DS. I had been an inpatient in hospital for a number of weeks due to complications and was sick of the hospital food. I knew I was going to be kept in for a few days after DS birth. My mum brought me a lovely sandwich from a local deli which I was looking forward to enjoying for an early dinner.

There was a patient fridge on the post natal ward and you had to label your food with your name and the date, which my mum duly did. I felt a bit unwell at dinner time so declined the hospital food, thinking I would have my sandwich later that evening when I was hungry.

DH and my mum left at about 7pm for the night and once I’d fed DS and got him organised I decided to take a trip to the patient fridge to get my sandwich. I was ravenous by this stage, having only had my obligatory tea and toast after having DS that morning.

Well, to my horror I opened the fridge and my sandwich was nowhere to be found. I searched high and low, there wasn’t much else in the fridge. The odd packet of sausage rolls, fruit pota, bottle of juice etc. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

I went to the midwives station and asked if there was another patient fridge, there was not. I asked if the patient fridge had been cleared, it had not. I told the midwife that I had a sandwich in there and she said unfortunately food had been getting taken by other patients/visistors recently!!!!

To this day I’m still so angry and disappointed that someone would steal food from a woman they know has only just given birth!!!!!

The midwife kindly got me a leftover sandwich from lunch time which I was grateful for, but it wasn’t the same as my delicious deli sandwich.

AIBU for thinking you can’t get much lower than stealing food from a woman who has just given birth?!

YABU = get over it, it’s been 4 months
YANBU = this will haunt you forever more

Omg which hosp was this. About 4 months ago I was working a locum shift in maternity and forgot my lunch. Nurses said there were spare sandwiches in fridge uneaten and would go to waste. It was a notably delicious sandwich ! Thank you !

Op I would have been absolutely fuming..... just like ross from friends. I can still hear him shouting, 😅

I get you OP. I think you will simmer with resentment for the rest of your days, sadly. Waking up at 4am and tossing and turning, unable to sleep and imagining ways that you could have thwarted the dirty thieves.

I have similar woes. A more senior member of staff when I was in a new job literally stole my favourite M&S sandwich in a meeting. Tbf she didn’t know I had earmarked it. But that doesn’t matter one whit.

It was my most favourite ever Wensleydale Cheese and Carrot Chutney on malted bread. OP I will send you one to get over your trauma too. Solidarity.

I’m a nurse and remember a parent stealing one of my colleague’s lunch. They caught them eating it.

I've had a similar thing. I had a new toy and my 4 years older than me cousin asked if they could play with it tonight and promised to give it me back the next morning. I said yes because I foolishly didn't think that they wouldn't, as I thought I'd done a nice thing. They wouldn't give it me back, the wider family circle supported them and I didn't get it back for weeks. At the time I felt very angry and ashamed.

😮What did you wear to go home?

When I was about 5 years old, I left an old cardboard jewellery box with some daisies in it by the back door, a neighbour similar age on his trycicle came up the driveway and stole it.
The bare faced cheek, I have never gotten over it. I am now 59 yrs old.

If that was mine, I would just rather they had taken it all, then did that tbh.

You handled it well in the words of joey I don't share food and would not drop it ever

As soon as I read the thread title all I had in my head was ‘My sandwich, MY SANDWIICCCHHHH!’ and I’m so happy it was referenced in the first comment.

I’d have been fuming too OP!

very mean 😫 about a year ago my DD was in hospital and the whole patient fridge was filled up with one parents food (clearly not for the child, the parents) they had bought the whole of m&s and filled the fridge to the brim so I had nowhere to store my daughters medicated tube feed. Still pisses me off to this day how someone could be so selfish.

I really fancy a delicious sandwich now.

I had a subway for dinner/lunch was lovely not had one for ages

Some people are just thieving cunts.

My (now ex) husband ate the food I had brought in with me while I was in labour. Actually ate it in front of me while I was in too much pain to be able to say anything. The child is now 15 and I still haven't forgotten it!

I genuinely would have cried, after birth you are ravenous and I hate looking forward to something and it's gone. Absolute worst I'd never let it go either 🤣😅

People are pigs.

Men in particular are selfish pigs.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g your post really made my heart ache. Beautifully written.

I have a 4 year old who is such a good little boy and I can imagine him being the same, dutifully eating everything. I want to give you a big hug.

Jokey version - it was Sandra (see username) She has form.

Actual version - people can be absolute arseholes. It's not like you can pop out to replace it when you are in this situation. I hope it gave them explosive diarrhea and yadnbu op

Thieves are scum. I'd be the first to sabotage it (obviously this is illegal!)

That's very kind, but to be honest it's been a standing joke in my family ever since. Any mention of ice cream and they all turn to me expectantly.

I do look back now, though, and marvel that I was in hospital in a big city about 20 miles from home for several days. It wasn't easy for my family to visit, but they managed it every day. Some kids, however, had no visitors. There was no notion of allowing parents to stay with the child at all. I think it's day surgery now, if it happens at all. Much better for all concerned.

Oh noo! We had something similar at work when my colleague used the gym in our building at lunch and when he went to get changed to go back into the office, someone had taken his trousers. He spent the afternoon in a shirt + tie and a pair of sweaty gym shorts 🤢

Jennifer Aniston and a Ross topic trending at this same time. It's like 1996 all over again.

Oh god, you have my sympathy. When I was pregnant with my first coming on ten years ago, a rude woman cut in front of me in the queue in m&s when I was out buying a cake on my lunch break. I was 8 month along and it was an absolute mission to go to buy that cake. I was crying tears of rage when I got back to the office. Still think about the audacity from time to time now. So, no I think you’re absolutely fine in your outrage. I get it.

You should've gone round each patient with access asking them in turn about it! The culprit might have had the guts to admit to it if they could allege it was a mix up. Oh, I had a sandwich in there that looked identical etc.

Anyway I can see why you're still pissed off! I think stealing food from communal fridges is the lowest thing ever!