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She stole my sherry trifle!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 14:26

In a certain big supermarket this morning, I was getting a few last minute things, and I grabbed a sherry trifle. The last one! As I popped it into the trolley, a woman next to me sighed and huffed and puffed, and asked a shop assistant near me if they had any more. He said 'no, sorry.' The woman asked if any more were coming in tomorrow. He said 'I don't think we'll be having any more now til after Boxing day.' The woman scowled at me. I thought 'bloody hell it's not my fault I got the last one.'

I walked around the store and got some more things I needed, with the trifle placed at the bottom of the trolley where nothing could crush it, and the bloody woman seemed to be 10 feet behind me for the next 10 minutes I was in the store.

The last item I wanted was a loaf of bread. I reached up to check the dates, and popped the bread into the trolley. I started making my way back to the checkout, and noticed the trifle was gone! Shock The woman in question was practically jogging to the self checkout! I followed quickly, and sure enough, she had my fecking sherry trifle! I said 'are you kidding me?! You've taken my bloody trifle!' She said 'no I didn't! I found this mixed in with the cheeses, it's mine.'

I knew she was lying, as there was no more left after I took mine, and now she has one and mine is gone! She definitely took my sherry trifle! I told a member of staff, but they said there's really nothing they can do, as technically no-one has stolen anything. I was so pissed off! Never going to get another one the day before Christmas, and I'm not chasing around the county to look for one. Also, this store is the only one I have seen selling sherry trifles!

On the way out, she smirked at me and said 'Merry Christmas!' I was like Shock

AIBU to hope the sherry trifle gives her the shits?! Hmm

I went back in and got a raspberry trifle by the way, but I'm so pissed off.

P.s. No, I'm not making my own. It's too late to source all the ingredients now anyway!

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Mimzy26 · 25/12/2025 17:08

Hopefully it was off and she gets the shits also though I would have stolen it back

Elephant788 · 25/12/2025 17:38

I also hope she gets amoebic desentery from it or piles!🤣🤣🤣🤣

HevenlyMeS · 25/12/2025 19:48

PsychoHotSauce · 23/12/2025 14:32

I'm so sorry OP, I know you're annoyed but this really made me laugh. How unhinged that she stalked you around the supermarket waiting for you to turn your back so she could pinch it Grin

Yes I must admit, seeing your humorous sweet slant on this, I chuckled to myself too💚😆💚
God Bless You&Yours

DisabledDemon · 25/12/2025 19:49

OneMoreProfiterole · 23/12/2025 14:54

Bitch would have gone home wearing the fucking trifle.

As an enema.

Winterburn · 25/12/2025 19:54

Tesco then? 😂 there were loads in our big Tesco on the evening of 23rd, sorry to rub it in! Sherry, raspberry and strawberry. We went for raspberry, I’d have loved a sherry one but they were too big really just for two of us lol.

What a bitch though. YANBU, I also hope it gave her the shits! All that over a fucking trifle, at least you can rest assured that she’s the loser in life as she must have a really sad little life to do something so stupid and selfish.

tommyhoundmum · 25/12/2025 21:33

Winterburn · 25/12/2025 19:54

Tesco then? 😂 there were loads in our big Tesco on the evening of 23rd, sorry to rub it in! Sherry, raspberry and strawberry. We went for raspberry, I’d have loved a sherry one but they were too big really just for two of us lol.

What a bitch though. YANBU, I also hope it gave her the shits! All that over a fucking trifle, at least you can rest assured that she’s the loser in life as she must have a really sad little life to do something so stupid and selfish.

I've never met a trifle that was too big for two. I've shown great restraint this year and not bought one.

We found the veggie offerings sparce this Christmas. Bit disappointing.

GoldAndSilverBells · 25/12/2025 23:38

We all enjoyed the lovely sherry trifle today - that my older DC got and brought around today ... (DH and I, and our 2 DC and their partners all had it!)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day everyone. 🎄

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Slimtoddy · 27/12/2025 11:32

I am hearing more stories like this IRL and on social media. What's going on? People nicking things out of other people's trollies. I don't remember this happening in previous years?

I was going to say I got a sherry trifle from M&S and I couldn't taste the sherry. I was going to say that might be her punishment but I see you got a lovely trifle in the end.

Daftypants · 27/12/2025 16:47

I hope she got diarrhoea from eating that trifle 🤣

GoldAndSilverBells · 28/12/2025 12:14

Slimtoddy · 27/12/2025 11:32

I am hearing more stories like this IRL and on social media. What's going on? People nicking things out of other people's trollies. I don't remember this happening in previous years?

I was going to say I got a sherry trifle from M&S and I couldn't taste the sherry. I was going to say that might be her punishment but I see you got a lovely trifle in the end.

People are shameless! As a couple of posters said further back, these are the same feckers who snaffled all the toilet rolls, pasta, kitchen rolls, and tinned food during the Covid Pandemic!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 28/12/2025 12:15

Daftypants · 27/12/2025 16:47

I hope she got diarrhoea from eating that trifle 🤣

Me too. 😆 The sherry trifle we had (that my DD brought around on Christmas day) was very tasty though. Grin

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MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 28/12/2025 12:23

GoldAndSilverBells · 25/12/2025 23:38

We all enjoyed the lovely sherry trifle today - that my older DC got and brought around today ... (DH and I, and our 2 DC and their partners all had it!)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day everyone. 🎄

What's happened to the raspberry trifle?

earshadow · 28/12/2025 12:29

Am I the only one feeling a bit of admiration for the trifle stealer? Grin

BIossomtoes · 28/12/2025 12:33

earshadow · 28/12/2025 12:29

Am I the only one feeling a bit of admiration for the trifle stealer? Grin

No, it was fearlessly opportunistic. 😂

MamsKnit · 28/12/2025 13:34

earshadow · 28/12/2025 12:29

Am I the only one feeling a bit of admiration for the trifle stealer? Grin

No. I would have been quite upset if someone did that to me.

xAwaywiththefairiesx · 28/12/2025 13:41

WTF? 😂

No-one needs a sherry trifle this badly. They're not even nice 😫 and they are so so easy to make, she could have bought the ingredients in the time it took her to stalk you round the supermarket.

Or she could have just chosen a different dessert.

I bet you she has been passing that supermarket trifle off as her own for years and now she has a family event and has been asked to bring "her" trifle and she has promised she would so she has to get that exact one.

I can't think of any other reason anyone would need trifle enough to steal one!!

xAwaywiththefairiesx · 28/12/2025 13:47

NeedsRenovation · 24/12/2025 19:45

I once saw two couples in a physical fight over selection boxes in the Oadby Asda in Leicester.

I once witnessed two fully grown men in a fight over who's kid was next on the swing.

And another time two grown women in a proper hair-pulling bitch fight over who's toddler hit who's, in the middle of soft play.

LunaTheCat · 28/12/2025 14:13

It reminds me of the dark days of Covid when the world went ballistic for toilet paper.
As an aide I love a trifle. I had a work provided lunch today and the trifle was unreal !

LunaTheCat · 28/12/2025 14:14

I also nominate this for classics!

Shmoigel · 28/12/2025 14:18

When I moved to the town I live in, this happened!! Two grown women having a fist fight with hair puling over a frozen turkey!! Insane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1726286.stm

BIossomtoes · 28/12/2025 14:18

xAwaywiththefairiesx · 28/12/2025 13:47

I once witnessed two fully grown men in a fight over who's kid was next on the swing.

And another time two grown women in a proper hair-pulling bitch fight over who's toddler hit who's, in the middle of soft play.

Edited

I know someone who used to work for John Lewis and witnessed two women fighting over Tinkywink during the great Tellytubby shortage one Christmas in the late 90s.

xAwaywiththefairiesx · 28/12/2025 14:39

BIossomtoes · 28/12/2025 14:18

I know someone who used to work for John Lewis and witnessed two women fighting over Tinkywink during the great Tellytubby shortage one Christmas in the late 90s.

Lol, in my head this fight involves in a tug of war where tinky-winky ultimately ends up getting his head torn off with stuffing everywhere 😄

GoldAndSilverBells · 28/12/2025 15:25

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 28/12/2025 12:23

What's happened to the raspberry trifle?

We had that over Boxing Day and yesterday (just DH and I.)

The Sherry one was all gone before the sun went down on Christmas Day. ☀

We had family around then though! Grin

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GoldAndSilverBells · 28/12/2025 15:26

xAwaywiththefairiesx · 28/12/2025 13:47

I once witnessed two fully grown men in a fight over who's kid was next on the swing.

And another time two grown women in a proper hair-pulling bitch fight over who's toddler hit who's, in the middle of soft play.

Edited

Some people do go loco over the most trivial and ridiculous of things!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 28/12/2025 15:27

Shmoigel · 28/12/2025 14:18

When I moved to the town I live in, this happened!! Two grown women having a fist fight with hair puling over a frozen turkey!! Insane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1726286.stm

Edited

Oh my goodness! 😂

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