LucyDuke
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Short story: Jerks stealing my soda from the fridge. What to do?
Long story: I work in a body shop with about 10 other guys. Once in a while I'll buy a case of soda and put it in the fridge. It's pretty obviously common courtesy to not take things out of the fridge if they're not yours. The guys know that that soda is mine, and a few of them will once in a while say "Hey Lucy, can I steal a Coke?", and I always say it's fine. I don't mind sharing, I just want to be asked. All of them know this.
Today I was sitting in my office working (read: probably lurking CFCOT). I'd just fetched a can from the fridge, and had noticed that there were 6 cans left in the case. I heard someone in the break room, messing with the fridge, and the crack-hiss of a can being opened. I went to check, but whoever it was had gone and the case I had just seen 6 cans in now had 5. I went out and had a quick glance around the shop but couldn't figure out who it was.
This isn't the first time this has happened and I don't know who's doing it. I can reasonably assume it's not one of the guys that ask me, but that doesn't solve the problem. What I would like to do is paint the mouthpiece of the can with some nasty-tasting stuff to subtly punish this jerk, but I can't think of any appropriately nasty-tasting stuff that wouldn't show on the can.
Any ideas?
Long story: I work in a body shop with about 10 other guys. Once in a while I'll buy a case of soda and put it in the fridge. It's pretty obviously common courtesy to not take things out of the fridge if they're not yours. The guys know that that soda is mine, and a few of them will once in a while say "Hey Lucy, can I steal a Coke?", and I always say it's fine. I don't mind sharing, I just want to be asked. All of them know this.
Today I was sitting in my office working (read: probably lurking CFCOT). I'd just fetched a can from the fridge, and had noticed that there were 6 cans left in the case. I heard someone in the break room, messing with the fridge, and the crack-hiss of a can being opened. I went to check, but whoever it was had gone and the case I had just seen 6 cans in now had 5. I went out and had a quick glance around the shop but couldn't figure out who it was.
This isn't the first time this has happened and I don't know who's doing it. I can reasonably assume it's not one of the guys that ask me, but that doesn't solve the problem. What I would like to do is paint the mouthpiece of the can with some nasty-tasting stuff to subtly punish this jerk, but I can't think of any appropriately nasty-tasting stuff that wouldn't show on the can.
Any ideas?
. Get the guys together and tell them that they should ask before they take, and if they continue to just take it, threaten that you'll stop bringing them.
), we ate one and a bit of the second, and I left the rest in the fridge in a plastic bag. I took a piece on friday evening and still there was half cake left. Then I came on Sunday to set up a reaction, I went to the frigde, and there was no cake, no tray, no plastic bag, nothing. (the janitor empties the trash can every working day, but not in the weekends) And neither the empty tray nor the bag were in the trash can, somebody took it home. 
and talk about you to all the other guys in a very positive light; the soda-stealing cretin will either (a) look like a jerk, or (b) feel like a jerk and try to make it up to you. (If you like him, that can mean dinner; if not, it can mean two cans of soda, or something humorously humiliating.) Make a federal case about it, and your co-workers will also talk about you ("there's this b[w]*ch from h@ll at work.")
I only tought about saying "i hope who drunk the soda is very satisfied."
