She stole my sherry trifle!

[GoldAndSilverBells]

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! 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

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

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!

The lesson here is: Never, ever turn your back on your Christmas trolley!

Hmm…I’m pretty sure this is exactly what happens in a scene from the film Christmas with the Kranks except it’s a “Hickory Honey Ham” not a trifle.

Right down to the smirk and “Merry Christmas” as she’s leaving…

I like you OP 😄😄😄😄😄 As someone who battles with my eyebrows this would be the ultimate punishment 😜😜😜

Really odd behaviour as its so easy to make. It's just an assembly job.

What a nasty bitch!

I hope 2026 brings her nothing but misery.

Yup you are probably right! I’m still giggling at the state of her! Just bonkers that these people walk among us!

YANBU OP but seriously WTF is wrong with everyone in supermarkets today?

I popped into Sainsbury's earlier to get some fresh bits and their were two women having a massive row right by the fresh sprouts with quite a few people stood watching. I have no idea what it was about and couldn't hang around to find out but I was like an early preview of Christmas day EastEnders. I'm now wondering if one had stolen a prized sherry trifle off the other one!

I’d have got out my phone and taken a nice picture of her to post on local area Facebook sites. Name and shame the thieving cow bag!!

honestly the cheek of some people. I actually hope she is on here reading replies and feeling ashamed of the absolute arsehole she clearly is.

Maybe we should make online ordering/home delivery compulsory for Christmas /s

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I'd have taken the photo and then printed off multiple copies of it, written the word THIEF on the top and attached them to every lamppost in the area, the way people do with missing cat appeals.

Yep, I wish I had photographed her. I was just so like and a bit gobsmacked!

Silly mare would have denied it anymore.

Love sherry trifle especially at Christmas. My dm made a gorgeous sherry trifle
And though not a drinker apart from the very occasional glass of wine she certainly didn't stint when adding the sherry to the trifle. Before she died she came to me at Christmas and I bought each year the sherry trifle from M&S. Only she and I would eat it. This is the first year not having one. I would have been devastated if that had happened to me while having my mum for Christmas.

Nasty woman. I expect she'll be eating the trifle alone, which will make her feel very queasy indeed.

Many years ago, I worked at the head office for a clothing company and every once in a while there was a sample sale for employees with ridiculously low prices. I once bought a top for £1.

Anyway, at one of these sales, my colleague J was holding a dressing gown and a woman from another department walked up and snatched it off her! And this was at work! It's funny how shopping for limited stock under pressure can make some people lose their minds.

I got the last but one turkey at Waitrose this morning & the assistant said no more coming in. I was tempted to hang around in case there were scenes over the last one.
Hope you got something just as nice anyway, OP.

The only thing I would say is that pre-made trifle is usually vegetarian and it’s hard to get hold of vegetarian jelly that isn’t crap.

Was her name Patricia do you think, I would have told her she could keep the cunting trifle but that I had spat on the packaging

I think that’s called being a Last Turkey Voyeur! Either that or you’re a sociopath 😂

Anymore should be anyway! (Sorry!)

Risky though. While you were entertained by the fight, someone might have pinched yours.

It's a kind of FOMO gone mad. I don't fully understand it.

Cunting trifle. 😂

Loads in sainsbos where I am this afternoon!

Do you have a local FB page? You could post on there "To the woman in Tesco today wearing the green coat who took the last Sherry Trifle out of my trolley.....you should know that I licked it. Enjoy!"

She will know that you probably didnt, but it will play on her mind!

Years ago I had just picked up a book from the shelf at an antiques fair when a man snatched it out of my hand. He claimed to have been looking at it a few moments ago and just put it down while he look at another. The etiquette at these events is that while an object is in someone's hand they have first call on it. So if someone picks up an item you want, you wait politely to see if they are going to buy it. All dealers know that. It was a book on the history of womens underwear so I asked him if he was some kind of pervert! You should have seen his face. The stallholder took the book and said she was not going to sell it to either of us. She hid it under the counter,

Later as I was passing the stall again she called me over and said I could have the book if I was still interested. She told me "I saw what happened, He was rude and is known for that sort of thing." She didnt want to get involved in an argument bertween two customers. So of course I bought it and went home with a feeling of triumph.

Hope she reads this and realises that she is a pathetic cow with bad karma on the way! What a sad little life to steal a trifle 🤣