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

Totally acceptable to be pissed off. Same happened to me giving birth to ds2. 🥪

I'm still bitter about a former colleague throwing away my sandwiches from the communal fridge. Why would you do that? I'd made them that very morning so they hadn't been sat there overnight.
This was around 16 years ago 😂

I bet it was a DH

Bet it was a woman. My cousin.

I’m still annoyed they cleared away my half eaten marmalade on toast and cup of tea the day after my son was born 25 years ago!! I had to go and change him as he was crying and when I came back it was gone 😭

I’m a member of a hotel gym and have been going swimming 4 nights a week for 13 years so I know all the staff and a lot of members but there are obviously also hotel guests.
I live less then a five minute walk away so just go with my swimming costume and a tracksuit on and leave shampoo, conditioner etc in a locker permanently. I usually take my towel and phone to the poolside because I listen to music or audiobooks with waterproof headphones.

Last year I forgot my towel and to take the key out of the locker so it was left unlocked because I was busy chatting. When I got out of the pool and got back to the changing room a cheeky skanky hotel guest had got my expensive rituals shampoo and conditioner and molten brown shower gel out of my locker and used them and was wrapped in my towel! She knew it wasn’t a hotel towel because mine are multi coloured and not white like the hotel ones.
I demanded my toilet trees back 😉 and when I got my towel back with no apology I told the wretched woman I had worms and had dried my bum with that towel earlier.

It was very childish but she was horrified and hopefully it’ll teach the cf’er a lesson about stealing! She never did apologise, just called me a dirty bitch and flounced off.
I’m still pissed off about it but at least it’s taught me to always keep lock the locker locked and remember the key.

I worked nights as a support worker and there was one member of staff who thought she was better then anyone else and constantly running to management over the smallest issues. Every shift she obsessively checked that any food in the fridge was labelled and dated.
I was the only staff member on nights to dispense medication and had 3 night shifts in a row - 13 hour shifts so had brought a bag of food from M&S, sandwiches, pasta salad, hummus and crackers and other snacks.

As soon as my shift started I was called to do evening meds before I could label and date my food (it was all clearly unopened with use by dates on and it was obviously mine as the staff saw me put in in the fridge) it was a hectic shift and I didn’t stop for hours.

When finally I had time for a break and something to eat the arse licking staff member had binned all my food and taken it to the outside bins. I was hungry and stressed and it was a the early hours of the morning and no chance of any food deliveries and I’d made sure I’d gone shopping before my stretch of nights as I wouldn’t have time when I was working.

It was six years ago and I’m still fuming thinking about it, the good thing is at least it gave me the push to leave because it was a horrible place to work.

She didn’t apologise just told me I knew the rules and it was my own fault. Everyone hated her including management because they were fed up of her constantly badgering them. They knew she would do anything they asked though so manipulated her with fake praise to take advantage, in my experience there is someone like that in every workplace.

I bet it was a visitor, not a patient! Patients aren't up to stealing and they get their meals brought to them, unlike visitors. Stealing a fancy sandwich from the patient fridge - ON A MATERNITY WARD - is the lowest of the low. Imagine having given birth and you're knackered and ravenous, and the sandwich was waiting for you at the end of the birthing road, and someone stole it! A plague on that person. 😡

If they knew they had a problem with stealing, they should have set up a camera!

there could have been a totally innocent explanation for this

have you been back to the deli to request this particular sandwich?

This brings back memories of going to the midwife and being told the baby was really low so heading to the supermarket to stock the fridge feeling so heavy and pregnant and exhausted. I had a trolley of food and a toddler and painful hips and was waddling my way wearily to the checkout when a twat of man sped up to push in line ahead of me. It still pisses me off when I think about it and I wish I'd had the wits to tell him he was a selfish dick.

Oh and I went into labour about two hours later. Maybe I have him to thank.

This is dreadful, and do is the OP. Its just a sandwich but my goodness, this is why we can't have nice things as a society.

I can just imagine the feeling-food disappointment is the worst thing ever!
I hope you did as I did the second you were discharged and got DH to take you straight to a Costas/other cafe for some real food! Best lunch out I had had in years (and I has only been in a day!)

I worked somewhere where someone had brought in a plated up cold salad, think Ploughman’s. On their own plate from home and covered in cling film. She went into the rest room to find someone else eating it! The stealer wasn’t even apologetic! I mean - would you steal food someone else had prepared like that? I can understand a packet sandwich but not something done like that. So strange!

I had £20 stolen from my hospital bag when I went in for a c-section 26 years ago. I still haven't got over it. TBF a sandwich would have been even worse, I was that hungry. YANBU.

Not food related but here an example of how selfish people can be .

It was a rainy day and when I came into work, I walked into the staff cloakroom and caught a colleague just about to empty someone's carrier bag full of their belongings. Oh she said it's raining and I'm looking for a bag.

We worked in a supermarket and she was too mean to pay for one .

This used to happen alot in our works fridges, honestly I was tempted to put a really inviting sandwich in there with laxatives in it.

My milk was always pinched too, I even used to put it in a special beaker so the person pinching clearly knew it wasn't there's. One day I was raging and left a note on it, saying 'stop pinching my breast milk', they didn't take it again!

Many, many years ago I worked with an awful woman who would go into the staff communal fridge once lunch break was over and help herself to anything that was left.

One day I had a dentist appointment just before lunch and was too numb to eat anything. When it wore off a bit later on, I went to get my lunchbox and the whole thing was missing.

Walked around the office and found it quite brazenly on her desk. Told her it was mine and she said that I should have taken it out the fridge if I was going to eat later as it was too tempting for her!

The next day, I took in some ‘extra’ sandwiches, lovingly made with cat food and cucumber and watched her eat them with a massive grin on my face.

I had a post-birth, still in hospital, pannini from Costa and it was horrible. I was so hungry and really looking forward to it. I still bear a grudge against Costa.

Oh no!!!!!! Food disappointment…
It wasn’t lunch time for me hut I had the best coffee and muffin while DS was cooed over by a bunch of old ladies who had been to a crochet club and hadn’t held such a young baby since their own! Lovely memories

That does sound lovely. It’s funny how it’s the simple things that stick in your head to look back fondly on.

I will never forget the tea and marmite toast made for me by the nurses after DS was born. Best meal ever.
Closely followed by the steak supper DH cooked for me when I was discharged.

Worms 🤣 You are my new hero. The sheer audacity of that woman

Get over it.
Yes unfortunate, but shit happens.
If this is the only issue you have in life (4 months later) then I'm truly envious.
Shit happens. It's a sandwich.

Disgusting behaviour from someone who is clearly a stain of a human being. Glad your mum got you another one.

I'll see your sandwich and raise you a TV and VCR (this was circa 1990) ... from a children's ward though.

I was in hospital for a good few months with a badly injured leg. Was in a bay of 6 beds, all other kids asleep when 2 blokes came into the bay. They saw I was awake and one of them came and sat on my bed, started chatting to me saying he was the dad of another kid on the ward, whilst his accomplice (shielded by the curtains around some of the other beds, so I couldn't see), helped himself to the TV and VCR. I only realised what was going on when the accomplice walked past the end of my bed with them and he and the bloke distracting me took off rather quickly.

It's unthinkable that a children's ward's doors were left open for anyone to come and go as they please, but they were in those days. They did install door security to the 3 children's wards in the hospital pretty quickly after that though!

I got a Subway for lunch.

First one for years.

When did they stop giving you all the salad in the sandwich?! And the sauce?!

Disappointed doesn't cover it!