... to think my colleague shouldn't have eaten my biscuit?

[Anglepoise]

I had my last day at work on Friday before starting maternity leave

One of my duties before I left was training up my replacement. I actually worked with him at a different firm a few years ago for a couple of months, so knew him by name though not very well, and then we spent two afternoons together last week - in other words, I don't know him very well.

Anyway, on Friday, I was showing him how to do something on my computer, then moved out of the way to let him have a go himself. I had a half-eaten choccie biccie on the side next to my keyboard. When he took my place at the computer, he said, "Gosh, that looks so delicious that I'm just going to have to eat it!" - and did!

Is it just me or is it very weird to eat the partially-eaten food of near-strangers?

(And in case anyone's wondering, I'm not exactly torturing myself over this, just work -avoiding )

That is very odd behaviour.

You might consider yourself near-strangers but he obviously feels well and truly bonded

That is odd.

He stole food from a pregnant woman?!? Does he have a death wish?

Yuck!

MrsTM pmsl!

One thing I can't ever do is take other people's food. I can't even finish other people's left-overs, even my children's. To me, it is just yuk!

I went to a church training thingy recently where one of the activities was making chocolate crispy cakes (there was a very good reason for this, which I won't bore you with - stay with me).

Later on, we were sitting round tables listening to a speaker. I had my two crispy cakes on a paper plate, waiting till they were set enough to pack up and take home. At which point a rather dignified, elderly vicar carefully stretched across and gobbled one up.

Am still not entirely sure whether he is a closest bakery thief or whether he honestly didn't that they were mine!

I would have told him I had oral thrush (once he'd swallowed it). on your behalf!

Claerly that's anglepoise's colleague, not t'vicar!

what a very strange thing for him to do.

It is weird, isn't it? I wasn't sure if I was just being unduly precious! I was so taken aback I didn't say anything, but I think he realised it was a bit wrong because he later went and got a stack of biscuits and left them on my desk (which I ended up throwing away, which tbh annoyed me more than the original theft had). On the plus side, it's been tickling me ever since!

i bet it was one of those moments he's looking back on and cringing!

LOL

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I am really, really greedy but I would NEVER do that

but why did you throw away biscuits?????????????????/

Yuk, ,I could never eat someone elses left over food. Occasionally I will finish something DS doesn't want, if he gets halfway through an ice-cream and doesn't want anymore I would finish it. But not someone I hardly know, that is yukky and very strange!

He got you a stack of biscuits. I'd forgive most things for that.

I threw away biscuits because (1) he'd carried them over to my desk in his hands and I am precious about other people's hands and (2) by this time it was 9 pm and I really wasn't in the mood either for biscuits or carrying them home.

I had a friend at school who used to do weird things like this without thinking. The science teacher was talking to her once and she hid behind her hair then popped out and went "peepo!"

Funniest thing was, in later life, she became a teacher and a child pointed his finger at her and she went to bite it!

She was an odd girl, agree your colleague must be cringeing now.

Have you seen friends with Roadd, 'MY TURKEY SANDWICH???'

Someone at work came over and took my half eaten packet of crisps off me and ate them. I don't know if he thought he could do it because he's my boss or what.

But then someone ate my yoghurt!! I mean, did they bring their own spoon or what?

It is weird. Some people are weird.

But when I was pregnant I probly would have kicked him in the shin for eating my grub lol

It is an odd thing to have done. Must have been a damn tasty looking biscuit. What sort was it?

Ewww.
Why would you eat food that had touched someone elses mouth?
Later we can get on to the fact that it's weird behaviour and then about it being a biscuit.