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

YANBU...My prem twins spent nearly 3 weeks in SCBU and my brother brought in some gorgeous outfits for them to come home in. The outfits were stolen along with a baby change bag that my work place had given me. Still not over it 27 years later! It's an emotional time in your life having just given birth and these things, even little things still mean a lot.

in a hospital setting id be 50/50, yes annoyed but also it fed someone else a tasty treat

I remember someone from the local diving club telling me years ago that someone had stolen her shoes from the changing room at the swimming pool. It was before they installed lockers. The staff put your belongings in open cupboards behind a counter. Anyway, the diving club session finished after all the other sessions. Someone stole her shoes and she had to walk home in her diving flippers!
Absolutely true story.

I would never get over it either. Bastards! The bigger that pushed in front of me at the work canteen and stole the last sausage still plays on my mind. 30 years on.

I am angry for you and no I wouldn't forget!

Different issue but when I had my second child I realised I had forgotten cotton wool to clean her bottom with (when I was still brainwashed to use cotton wool). I asked a nurse for some and was told no they didn't have any. ITS A FRIGGING HOSPITAL! I had to clean baby's bum with a breast pad. The next day I walked past what was effectively a bay for teenage pregnancies and saw them all being handed out cotton wool! Was bloody furious.

That’s sickening! Especially in SCBU!

I strongly suspect it was a visitor who ate it. I’d like to think that no mother who has just given birth would be so awful to steal food from another woman who has just given birth?! Surely it’s an unwritten rule!

The sports centre gave DS a tracksuit from their sports camp and a swimming instructor lent me her spare clothes!

This is outrageous! OMG and hugs. Doesn't matter how long ago it was!

That was my thought too. Who does these things?? We got given/lent clothes from the sports centre

YOUR SANDWICH???

Bet it was a man…

I got really stressed and angry and sad and all sorts on your behalf reading that. I'm so sorry.

if its the visitor then its even more omg, i can understand your point

Someone stole a tupperware bowl of ham salad my MIL brought me into the hospital and the two slices of bread in tinfoil on top of it, I’d been really sick through labour and had only had water until 15 hours later when I felt a bit better. I went to get the food and realised it wasn’t there, the tupperware was found in the patients kitchen bin the next day wrapped in a carrier bag and I’ll never forget the kindness of those midwives that night when I was sobbing, they made me cheese on toast. I discharged myself the next morning, baby was fine and there was no need for me to be there. The concept of someone stealing food on a post natal ward sickened me and I just wanted home.

How has no one asked what was in this sandwich???? @Hungrymom please tell us the filling.

And no, you’re not being unreasonable. I’d be raging years later.

I'd be hoping it made them sick. People who steal food deserve food poisoning.

Sorry, it just made me think of Friends lol😅

YANBU OP.
The world owes you a delicious deli sandwich.

Someone stole my chocolate flapjack from the staff room fridge in 2013. Never found out who it was and I'm still angry about it.

Pregnant and losing confidence I decided to join aqua aerobics, I hung my towel up by the pool. It was a paid gym and there was also a towel supply but I had brought my own. Towel was taken and I had to wait for 20 minutes to get someone to get me a towel from the gym. Pregnant emotional and sad I left and never went back

I'd bet money it was some asshole new dad who thought his own need to satisfy his hunger after sitting watching his wife in labour for hours, trumped some silly woman's own hunger, who's just been through labour and given birth.

What a selfish cunt. I hate men sometimes. Hope he fucking choked on it.

Someone stole my debit card details when I was in hospital once. I had noticed it was floating around in my handbag, rather than in my wallet, but put it down to me not being at my sharpest after surgery etc. The day I was discharged, I had a text from my bank (this was 9 years ago) asking me to approve a click and collect order from ASDA. The cheeky thief had (luckily for me!) tried to spend more than I had in that account on their shop, so would have been disappointed when they turned up to collect it!

What sort of arsehole steals from someone in hospital? Debit card details or sandwiches? Equally as bad, and equally acceptable to dwell on for many, many moons!

I'd moved rented houses and popped back round a couple of weeks later to check if any post had come. I'd contacted everyone I'd thought of to change address. New tenants said they had given the post to the landlord. Few months later I received a Tesco clubcard statement to see someone with a different clubcard number had claimed my points several times having presumably opened my rewards post and used the vouchers. Raging. It amounted to about £30. Complained and Tesco refunded me as they'd failed to check the number. 17 years ago but still annoyed at the brass neck and cheek of opening my post and don't know if it was the tenant or the landlords.

I am still so bitter about something that happened 16 years ago.

A friend of DH's had a birthday do at the local races. I went and took DD who was about 9 months old.

We had a couple of tables with chairs in a good spot. Went to the fences to watch the first race (about 20 metres away) and when I got back saw all my stuff piled on the grass including DDs bottles and food, as some dick had gone and taken the table away and added it to their own to make a longer seating area. Who the fuck does something like that? I was so angry.

I couldn't tell for sure which party had taken the table and dumped all my stuff unfortunately, otherwise if certainly have had it out with them.

I ended up leaving as we had nowhere to sit and DDs stuff had been on the ground and I had nowhere to clean it
STBXDH couldn't have cared less which added to my fury.