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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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JacknDiane · 23/12/2025 17:22

Let's hope it chokes her

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/12/2025 17:22

Thanks to you, OP, I've just added the ingredients for a trifle to my next online delivery (next week). I hope you're satisfied.

CoraPirbright · 23/12/2025 17:23

MamsKnit · 23/12/2025 16:50

That is outrageous. She’s lucky it was you. Another person might have decked her.

Absolutely what I was thinking! I have a wicked combo of PMT and peri-meno rage at the moment and I am not sure she would have come out of the encounter unscathed.

4forksache · 23/12/2025 17:25

I realised I was walking around with an empty trolley today. I had to retrace my steps to find my correct one which had several things in it. I hope no one noticed me walk off with it and think I was a CF!

CinnamonJellyBeans · 23/12/2025 17:26

This is giving me the rage

If someone did that to me, I'd go nuts and end up spending Christmas in the cells.

AnchorWHAT · 23/12/2025 17:27

TimeForATerf · 23/12/2025 15:55

This is why I hide yellow sticker bargains under boring food like bread and cereal as I once caught a man rooting through my trolley and taking my reduced stuff.

Omg i once did this in tesco, rummaged through a trolley i thought was reduced stuff for sale and was severely reprimanded by the person whose trolley it actually was 😳

purser25 · 23/12/2025 17:28

A sherry trifle is very easy to make and nicer than a shop one

FlibbertyGibbitt · 23/12/2025 17:31

Someone on Facebook has just posted that they managed to pop the last but one turkey in their trolley …. Went to fetch something else annnnnnddddd someone had nabbed it out of the trolley !!!! 😱😱😱

grumpygrape · 23/12/2025 17:32

Friendlygingercat · 23/12/2025 17:19

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.

Book of ladies underwear, you had a feeling of triumph ? Pun intended?

ifIwerenotanandroid · 23/12/2025 17:36

DeftGoldHedgehog · 23/12/2025 15:39

I caught someone stealing from my trolley once, not at Christmas. Clearly they just fancied whatever it was and couldn't be bothered to find it on the shelves. They did put it back, looked sheepish and apologised.

Clearly you should have rugby tackled her to the floor and caught the trifle neatly as it flew in the air. Not really, but I'd like to see it in real life.

A friend once had someone make off with her entire trolley - but inside the store, so they weren't stealing, they just couldn't be bothered to shop for themselves. I'd never heard of it, but apparently it did happen quite a bit.

Robogob · 23/12/2025 17:38

What a low down deadbeat thief. YANBU!

ifIwerenotanandroid · 23/12/2025 17:41

The suggestions of throwing the trifle to the floor & stamping on it remind me of an old thread in which someone wanted to poke cakes in a supermarket. What the heck was that about? It seemed amusing.

My revenge of choice would've been to take the trifle saying this looked like the one I had, turn it upside down as though checking something on a label on its base & then say, "Oh no, my mistake, this is a different one,", turn it the right way up & give it back to her.

HighlandCauliflower · 23/12/2025 17:42

You didnt say which supermarket, but M&S have sherry trifles, if you have one near

My daughter wanted a trifle, it wasn't until we got home I saw it was a sherry one, I don't think she'll like it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Catwoman8 · 23/12/2025 17:43

cocog · 23/12/2025 16:07

26 years ago on Christmas Eve my sister had a physical fight with a lady in a toy shop she had pre ordered a whole set of teletubby teddy’s and had already paid for them walked into toys r us to grab some last minute bits and a lady tried to take out of the child seat from the bag was shouting and pushing them tried to punch her my sister hit her and she fell on her bum! My nephew had wanted them for months my sister said she would have died rather than give up tinkywinky dipsy Lala and po she was still outraged the next day🤣
I honestly laughed the whole Christmas Day that year! My nephew loved those toys for years!

I hope your sherry trifle gives her the shits!
🙈🤣

Sounds like a scene from Jingle all the way 🤣

yaychocolateginandwine · 23/12/2025 17:46

A few years ago - on Christmas Eve, I was at Morrisons early for when they opened.... nipped in, got the few odds and ends I still needed and feeling pleased with myself started loading my car.
A very nice lady asked nicely if she could wait until I had finished loading up for my trolley as there were none left - I smiled and said 'Of course !'
A brute of a man almost knocked the nice lady and I out of the way and said 'I'll have that !' - I said .' No. sorry, this lady has already asked'
He said ' I'll give you two quid' ( £1 trolley coin )
I said ' No , as I already said, this lady is having it !'
He said ' Okay - a fiver then '
I laughed and said 'NO, THIS LADY IS HAVING IT !'
He said ' Fuck you, you fucking bitch!.

,...... and a Merry Christmas to him ( I don't think , miserable bastard ! )

SatsumaDog · 23/12/2025 17:47

That’s so nasty! Who takes things from someone else’s trolley? Sometimes I wonder about people, I really do. So unbelievably selfish.

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:50

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 23/12/2025 17:03

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.

It's kind of putting me in mind of the awful behaviour of (some) women when Cabbage Patch Dolls were all the rage. Grabbing dolls off small children! Awful!

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Banaghergirl · 23/12/2025 17:51

Absolutely disgusting behavior nicking your trifle! Christmas seems to bring out the worst in some people. I was in ASDA, Chorley the other day and I was right near the checkout, with my half full trolley and my visibly disabled ds next to me. There was literally inches between me and the conveyor belt and I was just about to start loading my shopping on, when a middle aged man (approx 50s same as me) came running along trying to squeeze past (or so I thought) carrying a full basket. He was all red in the face and squeezed himself between my trolley and the checkout, I thought he just wanted to get past as there was no room behind me, so I pulled my trolley back from the conveyor belt so he could squeeze past. Stupid me, he then plonked his full basket on the checkout and laughed at me. He knew exactly what he'd done and he looked so bliddy pleased with himself. I wanted to have a go at him but ds wouldn't let me, he was worried things would escalate. I thought you sad man pushing in front of a woman and her disabled son.

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:52

FlibbertyGibbitt · 23/12/2025 17:31

Someone on Facebook has just posted that they managed to pop the last but one turkey in their trolley …. Went to fetch something else annnnnnddddd someone had nabbed it out of the trolley !!!! 😱😱😱

Oh noooooooooooooo! 😬

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ConnieHeart · 23/12/2025 17:52

GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:50

It's kind of putting me in mind of the awful behaviour of (some) women when Cabbage Patch Dolls were all the rage. Grabbing dolls off small children! Awful!

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Same with toilet rolls, pasta, hand sanitiser etc during Covid

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:56

HighlandCauliflower · 23/12/2025 17:42

You didnt say which supermarket, but M&S have sherry trifles, if you have one near

My daughter wanted a trifle, it wasn't until we got home I saw it was a sherry one, I don't think she'll like it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thank you. No M & S for 20 miles sadly...

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Original poster
GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:57

ConnieHeart · 23/12/2025 17:52

Same with toilet rolls, pasta, hand sanitiser etc during Covid

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Yep, some people can be such utter twats.

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Beachtastic · 23/12/2025 17:57

truffleruffle · 23/12/2025 16:50

A raspberry trifle sounds much better than sherry 👍

I was thinking the same. Why oh why must sherry be allowed to ruin a perfectly lovely pudding!

Oh but OP what a brilliant thing to happen. It will (in hindsight) give you many years of laughter and joy, whereas I'd bet my bottom dollar the cow who pinched it wouldn't know what happiness was if it bit her on the bum.

Comtesse · 23/12/2025 17:57

YABU because trifle is horrid, you’d have to pay me to eat it. Other woman is a right CF!

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GoldAndSilverBells · 23/12/2025 17:58

Banaghergirl · 23/12/2025 17:51

Absolutely disgusting behavior nicking your trifle! Christmas seems to bring out the worst in some people. I was in ASDA, Chorley the other day and I was right near the checkout, with my half full trolley and my visibly disabled ds next to me. There was literally inches between me and the conveyor belt and I was just about to start loading my shopping on, when a middle aged man (approx 50s same as me) came running along trying to squeeze past (or so I thought) carrying a full basket. He was all red in the face and squeezed himself between my trolley and the checkout, I thought he just wanted to get past as there was no room behind me, so I pulled my trolley back from the conveyor belt so he could squeeze past. Stupid me, he then plonked his full basket on the checkout and laughed at me. He knew exactly what he'd done and he looked so bliddy pleased with himself. I wanted to have a go at him but ds wouldn't let me, he was worried things would escalate. I thought you sad man pushing in front of a woman and her disabled son.

That's horrible behaviour! I hope this horrible man gets the shits too!

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