OMG!!! Some people....

[hunyb207]

This reminds me of about 5 years ago when I baked cupcakes for Halloween for my coworkers. They were mini cupcakes and I made 2 boxes so I believe there were about 48. My shift started at 6 am and because they were vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting and sprinkles I figured most people would eat them some time after lunch. There were about 10 people in the entire building when I went into work and most of the rest of the employees didn't come in until after 9:00 am. And while there are probably about 50 people in the building at one time, less than half use that particular break room. Well imagine my surprise when I went to the break room bathroom around 8 AM and there were like 5 cupcakes left. Who eats chocolate frosted cupcakes for breakfast? LOL

Was I upset? A little. I made cupcakes for all my coworkers not just the 3 or 4 who decided to eat them all. That was the first and last time I brought in food for my coworkers. I guess that makes me petty and I don't even care.

 

[mom2rtk]

This reminds me of about 5 years ago when I baked cupcakes for Halloween for my coworkers. They were mini cupcakes and I made 2 boxes so I believe there were about 48. My shift started at 6 am and because they were vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting and sprinkles I figured most people would eat them some time after lunch. There were about 10 people in the entire building when I went into work and most of the rest of the employees didn't come in until after 9:00 am. And while there are probably about 50 people in the building at one time, less than half use that particular break room. Well imagine my surprise when I went to the break room bathroom around 8 AM and there were like 5 cupcakes left. Who eats chocolate frosted cupcakes for breakfast? LOL

Was I upset? A little. I made cupcakes for all my coworkers not just the 3 or 4 who decided to eat them all. That was the first and last time I brought in food for my coworkers. I guess that makes me petty and I don't even care.

People eat cupcakes for breakfast at BOG every day of the week. We split one with our breakfast just last week!

 

[Hikergirl]

 

[hunyb207]

People eat cupcakes for breakfast at BOG every day of the week. We split one with our breakfast just last week!

Oh, I'm sure. I'm more of a salt person than a sweet person. I don't like cake or cupcakes at all. Sweets for breakfast just throws me off for some reason...like drinking soda for breakfast.

 

[Imzadi]

I am curious. Why do you defend the boy grabbing the oranges? I mean whether it was oranges, apples, pineapple or watermelon, it was a rude thing to do. None of the rest of the scenario removes that.

Now if he would have said “my friends want an orange too, can I take more than one?”

WHO was he supposed to say that too??? I even asked Wendy why she didn't just say to the teen, don't take more than one, in case I misunderstood the situation. She said very clearly several times that while she was noticing what was going on, she wasn't monitoring/policing the fruit. She said she actually felt uncomfortable and possibly seeming mean to tell the boy that. So there was no established interaction, rapport or expectation on either of their parts as to her standing there having anything to do with monitoring how much fruit to take.

So she wasn't a monitor and he may have been greedily picking up fruit for himself and his friends. Was he just supposed to be accountable for the extra oranges by yelling it out into the ether that he was taking 5 mandarin oranges, one for himself, and 4 four his friends, in case someone may be watching and monitoring?

And after he took 5 small mandarin oranges, there was ONE left that NO ONE took. Did that one become tainted by association? The other kids were too appalled to take the last orange? Perhaps the teen's hand brushed that orange and it now has cooties? Or they all felt guilty and left the last lone orange for someone else?

Maybe, the teen actually helped get rid of 5 oranges that might have also been left there? Maybe in the end, had he not done it, only 2 oranges would have been taken? We'll never know. . .

 

[Southernmiss]

This reminds me of about 5 years ago when I baked cupcakes for Halloween for my coworkers. They were mini cupcakes and I made 2 boxes so I believe there were about 48. My shift started at 6 am and because they were vanilla cupcakes with chocolate frosting and sprinkles I figured most people would eat them some time after lunch. There were about 10 people in the entire building when I went into work and most of the rest of the employees didn't come in until after 9:00 am. And while there are probably about 50 people in the building at one time, less than half use that particular break room. Well imagine my surprise when I went to the break room bathroom around 8 AM and there were like 5 cupcakes left. Who eats chocolate frosted cupcakes for breakfast? LOL

Was I upset? A little. I made cupcakes for all my coworkers not just the 3 or 4 who decided to eat them all. That was the first and last time I brought in food for my coworkers. I guess that makes me petty and I don't even care.

The now in trouble Bill Cosby had a great comedy sketch about chocolate cake for breakfast and it made sense. Eggs, milk, flour-same stuff that goes into pancakes.

I do not like traditional American "breakfast food". Give me last night's leftovers any day or chocolate cake!

 

[Imzadi]

The more important thing with the fruit situation is ... did either kid touch fruit that he then didn't end up taking, thereby seriously endangering the health of anyone who might come along and take the fruit after them?

Perhaps that's why all the apples were left. The mandarin oranges one can peel the cooties off. But, the apples, if you can't wash the apple, then the only way to get the cooties off is by rubbing the apple against your clothes. . . but then you have cooties on your clothes!

 

[Summer2018]

Every year at graduation, I bring in enough cupcakes for every guest and child to have one plus enough leftover for the teachers and principals. Usually I also set out cookie platters. Sometimes families will donate breakfast foods as well. I serve 4 gallons of iced tea and lemonade and enough juice boxes for every student and their siblings to have two.

During the reception, every family wants a photo op with me. By the time I get to the food table, everything is gone. Nothing is left but a few crumbs and some crumpled up napkins and plates with half eaten food.

I used to grab a plate for myself and put it aside, but one year, even that disappeared.

I give up. I no longer expect food at the reception anymore. I provide for my students and their families. After everyone leaves, my assistant and I order out for lunch.

 

[Imzadi]

You forgot buttered bread..

Don't. You. Start.



Actually, we haven't had a good "Where do you leave your shopping cart?" thread in several years. And we have lots of new DISers now. That thread is usually good for about 30+ pages.

 

[verleniahall]

Question: has the OP EVER commented back??

Just curious

 

[Imzadi]

What if one only wanted the crust, could they cut it off then leave the non crust piece leftover for someone else to take, even if that someone else already had their allotted one slice?

I don't eat the crust. NO, it has nothing to do with the possibility that someone touched my crust while taking their slice. I just like the sauce & cheese part. You can have my crust.

 

[kimmar067]

Ehh...not a biggie on the scale of "the nerve" to me.

....it WOULD be to anyone who didn't receive a slice.

 

[kimmar067]

I don't eat the crust. NO, it has nothing to do with the possibility that someone touched my crust while taking their slice. I just like the sauce & cheese part. You can have my crust.

...you mean the pizza bones?

 

[Imzadi]

There is a difference between what I would personally do, and what I would expect from others. I try to be more generous with the behavior and intentions of other people.

I see some folks here saying that just bc some of us think it ok for people to take more than 1 of a free item implying that we are Ill mannered people who only think "me me me". I am not saying that I myself would take a whole pizza or 5 oranges.

However, I do hope that if someone else did so, I would be generous and forgiving with my thoughts and actions. That if a boy grabbed 5 oranges that had been announced as free, that I would assume the best.

EXACTLY! I generously gave the boy an out. But then, there was a post for the boy needing to PROVE he actually had 4 friends he gave the oranges to and he had to announce it to . . . I don't know who?

 

[Imzadi]

...you mean the pizza bones?

In the land of crispy pizza crust, those crust ends can be jawbreakers.

 

[kimmar067]

Joining the others who would instinctively take two pieces. It has nothing to do with being raised with manners..

ETA- what size was the pizza? A large cut into six pieces would give pretty large pieces BUT otoh, it’s Dominos and that’s such a wimpy pizza as it is.

Don’t mind me as I argue with myself lol

edit: never mind.

 

[kimmar067]

Nope. I was raised in a strict home and had manners coming out my ears by the time I moved out. I could have high tea with the Queen (pinky fully extended) and fit right in. I’d still take two.

....oh....hob-nobbing with the goobersmoochers, eh?

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

Perhaps that's why all the apples were left. The mandarin oranges one can peel the cooties off. But, the apples, if you can't wash the apple, then the only way to get the cooties off is by rubbing the apple against your clothes. . . but then you have cooties on your clothes!

IDK, apples or oranges seem almost equally dangerous. If your hands have to touch the orange peel to peel the cooties off, then they have touched the cooties. Then they will touch the orange, so your own hands would have transferred the orange peel cooties (from someone elses's hands) onto the actual orange part that you are going to eat. And if you rub the apple against your clothes to get the cooties off, who's to say your clothes didn't have some cooties from something earlier? Or else now you have cooties on your clothes and then you may touch your clothes and then you have cooties back on your hands which you could then transfer right back onto the apple. It seems there is just no way to eat food and be completely safe about the cootie factor.

 

[Imzadi]

IDK, apples or oranges seem almost equally dangerous. If your hands have to touch the orange peel to peel the cooties off, then they have touched the cooties. Then they will touch the orange, so your own hands would have transferred the orange peel cooties (from someone elses's hands) onto the actual orange part that you are going to eat. And if you rub the apple against your clothes to get the cooties off, who's to say your clothes didn't have some cooties from something earlier? Or else now you have cooties on your clothes and then you may touch your clothes and then you have cooties back on your hands which you could then transfer right back onto the apple. It seems there is just no way to eat food and be completely safe about the cootie factor.

 

[kimmar067]

IDK, apples or oranges seem almost equally dangerous. If your hands have to touch the orange peel to peel the cooties off, then they have touched the cooties. Then they will touch the orange, so your own hands would have transferred the orange peel cooties (from someone elses's hands) onto the actual orange part that you are going to eat. And if you rub the apple against your clothes to get the cooties off, who's to say your clothes didn't have some cooties from something earlier? Or else now you have cooties on your clothes and then you may touch your clothes and then you have cooties back on your hands which you could then transfer right back onto the apple. It seems there is just no way to eat food and be completely safe about the cootie factor.

...you lost me at 'apples'...