the office thief

i wish there were no more updates on the office thief who opened and used more than half my bottle of french vanilla creamer...

a few weeks ago i was at a supermarket and grabbed a few items for work snacks - trying to be healthy when the 3pm lull hits and not go crazy and eat overly-processed full-of-refined-sugar overpriced pastries from Starbucks. i bought a pack of sliced baby swiss chesse, unopened but once open you can reseal type of packaging.

i had forgotten it was in the fridge, until today, when i put the rest of my lunch in there... and yeah, what do i expect, right? the package was opened and half gone.
sure, i hadn't gone back in a few weeks to 'manage' my snack, but it's cheese, with a long expiration date, and it was fully sealed new in box, and bought by me.

to hell with the games, i had thought of running my grubby fingers all over the slices of cheese and putting it back in the package, hoping whatever dirty germs i may have would possibly give the thief a deserving stomach ache.
too much effort.

i took the package of cheese out of the fridge...

and dropped it right into the trash. and i feel so free.


some kindred spirit might say 'hey, you didn't even remember it was there, isn't it better someone ate some of it, so not to waste it before it might go bad, because there are starving children in the third world...'

i say they did not buy the item, did not leave a note to say they are helping themselves to an emergency slice or two. it is stealing, no matter how you cut it. it is stealing if you do it in a supermarket (open the package from the fridge of something you didn't pay for and eat half of it and put the package back in the fridge).