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

I’m sorry that you’ve been through whatever you’ve been through, but just because people have been through horrendous times doesn’t mean other people can’t be peeved about things that have happened to them!

It doesn't indicate you are a thief but it does indicate that perhaps you are not a very nice person by your response

I'm assuming OP hasn't let this take over her life. But I think it's perfectly reasonable to occasionally remember and go, 'I can't believe someone did that!'

That's horrible :(

In my early teens I was admitted to the children's ward in my local hospital. The nurses there were truly awful, awful people and blamed me for putting myself in there (not true). There was a woman who worked in the kitchens, if I remember correctly. She brought the food to the ward. We got talking and she was really kind. She bought me a magazine and two cartons of juice from the shop and did my hair. She put one of the cartons in the fridge and labelled it for me, but when my mum came to visit, I asked her to grab the second carton but it had been stolen :(

I went nuts enough when my salt mill disappeared from the Porters ' rest room. I knew it wasn't them. It turned up 5 days later! Why take it out the room. I left a particularly sarky note about it too! I don't mind people using it which is why I put it there but don't take it for walkies!!!

One of my relatives works on a ward where her lunch goes missing often.. crazy how people who work the hardest can't even enjoy their own food during a long, tiring shift!

dear GaspOdeTheWonderDog,
do I feel your pain? Yes. With knobs on! In 1949/1950, aged rising-4, I had my tonsils out in the local cottage hospital (no visitors whatsoever allowed, including parents). Some dear elderly neighbours, three spinster sisters, sent me some black grapes. This was in the era of rationing, where there was only local, seasonal fruit & veg in shops.
Black grapes were the epitome of luxury, something my parents would never have afforded. I could see these grapes, displayed on a table on the other side of the ward, but I couldn't reach them because I wasn't allowed out of bed. On my discharge (in the era of children "seen and not heard") as I exited the ward with my mum, I "yearned" at them, but couldn't get up the courage to ask for my grapes. The nurses, standing by, knew very well what they were doing.

I have never forgotten.

An early lesson: NHS Nurses aren't all Angels.

Unfortunately there are always those unscrupulous few who will do this. May have been a mistake but unlikely. Please just let it go, it happens in any shared fridge, especially as students, so much thieving!

Make sure you have plenty of these sandwiches to help you get over it, in greater comfort.

I feel your pain too. Still, it's only been 75 years for you. You may yet get over it!

There’s always one. Pathetic.

A number of minor milk thefts took place for a while at my workplace until my friend was expressing breast milk labelled with her name. Yes, that partially went and the buzz of shock went round the office. The petty thefts stopped.

I had food taken regularly on the baby ward at HRI. I was virtually living there and I was reluctant to leave my baby alone in case her SATS dipped as some nurses were very slow to come when the monitor alarmed.

The nurses said it was probably drug addicts with the munchies whose babies were coming off heroin on the ward 😔

Never, ever leave a flapjack unattended.

My twins were in NICU when they were born. There was a kind of living room with comfy chairs where everybody left their coats and bags. The rules on the ward were that the only people allowed in were parents, to prevent infection and there was no arguing that rule. About a week in we got told we couldn’t leave our coats and bags in the room anymore because somebody had been stealing them. Stealing the coats and bags from people whose teeny tiny babies were struggling to live. And it must have been either a member of staff or a fellow parent. Hideous.

YANBU. I’m an ED nurse and frequently have my lunch (which is often leftovers in a Tupperware) stolen by other staff. It cuts deeply I tell you.

Yeah, you probs need to let this one go. And either not have any more kids or fill the next sandwich with laxatives. Cos no one wants the trots AND a newborn.

I had my daughter 31 years ago. Mum went to the local deli and bought a lovely selection of treats for me. All stolen by the next morning. I'm still pissed now!

There was a communal fridge in my sons SCBU where we could store some food, I had multiple bits and bobs stollen. So annoying considering how expensive hospital food when you need several meals a day to survive the hours you are there.

I love that your mum brought you another sandwich, not that there are brazen sandwich stealing so and sos about.

I'm genuinely loving the idea that your most prominent memory from 4 months ago is your stolen sandwich and not the birth of your baby 😂 I suspect his birthday will forever more be a day full of mixed emotions for you! Maybe you can have a sandwich cake for his birthday every year to commemorate the horrific ordeal?!

YANBU
I was in hospital a week which felt like forever. I still remember my MIL bringing me the most delicious sandwich EVER. Has never been beaten since.

this is so awful

Someone stolen my cheap woollies plimsolls from the ice skating rink and I had to walk home in my socks. It was freezing and pouring down.

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