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  Have you ever had food or beverages stolen and/or taken without your permission from a shared fridge?

A shared fridge would include places like a communal fridge at your job, in a dorm and/or student housing, a fridge shared with a roommate(s), a family fridge shared by parents/guardians/siblings/other family members, etc.

Please share your experiences and what, if any, remedies you used to stop this behavior by others. Currently there is an ongoing problem at my workplace concerning lunches being stolen out of the break room fridge. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

VotesAnswer
13Yes
9No
5I don't recall.
4I've never been in a situation where this could happen.
0Other

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Melf Survey Central SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorGold Qualifier
posted 9-Nov-2007 3:54am  

I've never been in a situation where this could happen.
mrmarm
posted 9-Nov-2007 5:34am  

No and I can't saw I've never been in this type of situation either.
they Survey Central SubscriberBronze Star Survey Creator
posted 9-Nov-2007 6:33am  

No, but friends have at work. My SO writes that he licked it or worse on the outside of the bag, and no one ever steals it.
moviesnob Survey Central Subscriber
posted 9-Nov-2007 8:03am  

Not me, but this has happened several times lately to people at my workplace.
bill Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey Creator
posted 9-Nov-2007 9:59am  

where I used to work, the problem was more that people would leave their lunches in the 'fridge, uneaten, for weeks, and they would get all smelly and moldy, and we all wished that someone would deal with it
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 9-Nov-2007 11:20am  

I don't recall, although I'm inclined to think not.
thecomic22
posted 9-Nov-2007 11:35am  

No.
Frostbrand Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 9-Nov-2007 12:58pm  

Not sicne my dog of an ex-roomate finally left.
icurok This user is on the site NOW (1 minute and 20 seconds ago)
posted 9-Nov-2007 1:02pm  

Yes, when I was at university
LindaH Survey Central Gold SubscriberGold Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 9-Nov-2007 1:06pm  

At work: never
At home: all the time
FauxLo Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 9-Nov-2007 2:48pm  

FoxTurtle would dose everything with laxatives until the culprit got the message if this happened to him, so...
Amanda
posted 9-Nov-2007 3:11pm  

Just add laxatives.
Amanda
(reply to FauxLo) posted 9-Nov-2007 3:11pm  

Excellent answer. *yes*
FauxLo Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to Amanda) posted 9-Nov-2007 4:54pm  

*grin*
FauxLo Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to Amanda) posted 9-Nov-2007 4:54pm  

*yes*
cloudhugger Survey Central SubscriberSilver Star Survey Creator
posted 9-Nov-2007 5:37pm  

Yes, it's a common thing. I have never sabatoged my food although I know some who have. Never pretty, causes alot of problems when that happens.
LindaH Survey Central Gold SubscriberGold Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
(reply to cloudhugger) posted 9-Nov-2007 6:00pm  

One time this guy put REALLY HOT hot sauce in his food and put it in the break room fridge, knowing this one co-worker (notorious for snagging other people's food) would eat it. Sure enough, he goes and eats it. All the while, we are watching, and the hot sauce is not phasing him in the slightest. It was as if it wasn't even in there! That was not only pretty, it was beautiful!!
darkshadowsseeker
(reply to bill) posted 9-Nov-2007 8:20pm  

We used to have that problem at a previous job too, but the management got so disgusted with the "science experiments" some employees were growing in the fridge that they posted a notice that uneaten food, with the exception of frozen food in the freezer section (burritos, frozen entrees, etc.) would be tossed after 24 hours. People were leaving containers with leftover casseroles, etc. in the fridge for weeks at a time.
darkshadowsseeker
(reply to LindaH) posted 9-Nov-2007 8:21pm  

I was thinking of doctoring a sandwich with something like a habanero pepper sauce, but just my luck, the thief won't be affected at all.
darkshadowsseeker
(reply to Frostbrand) posted 9-Nov-2007 8:23pm  

I didn't have a roommate who took my stuff, but a house guest of his stole from me. It was infuriating to go to the fridge & find the lunch meat I had bought to make sandwiches for work had been eaten & ending up not having anything else in the house to take for lunch the next day.
kirst
posted 10-Nov-2007 6:19am  

Probably...although it would not have upset me much if it was a roommate. We had someone that took bites out of sandwiches in our fridge at one point when I was working at a school in HK. Never happened to me, though, because I rarely brought a lunch with me to work.
mrmarm
(reply to bill) posted 10-Nov-2007 7:04am  

Just like my school bag.
RGirl
posted 10-Nov-2007 6:29pm  

In the dorm food got stolen all the time. Sometimes we had to padlock the fridge and pantry.
Crayons Bronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 10-Nov-2007 8:28pm  

Family fridge. My brother likes to steal my portion of the leftovers. Usually he just eats everything up that's good even though it doesn't belong to me, i'm not happy about it. He also uses too much toliet paper.
darkshadowsseeker
posted 11-Nov-2007 9:16pm  

When my sister lived in a quad with a shared kitchen, she had problems with her stuff being taken by other tenants. She went out & rented one of those mini fridges & kept it in her quad.
JessicaWoman99
posted 30-Nov-2007 8:43pm  

No never had this happen to me
JessicaWoman99
(reply to Crayons) posted 30-Nov-2007 8:48pm  

> Family fridge. My brother likes to steal my portion of the leftovers.
> Usually he just eats everything up that's good even though it doesn't
> belong to me, i'm not happy about it. He also uses too much toliet
> paper.

Spike it with laxatives for your brother and get rid of the toilet paper tee hee and leave writing paper in the
bathroom oh my
Crayons Bronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
(reply to JessicaWoman99) posted 30-Nov-2007 11:38pm  

Oh yes, why didn't I think of it?!
LindaH Survey Central Gold SubscriberGold Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
(reply to JessicaWoman99) posted 1-Dec-2007 2:41am  

waxed paper *evil smile*
JessicaWoman99
(reply to LindaH) posted 1-Dec-2007 6:36pm  

> waxed paper *evil smile*

yes leave him some waxed paper tee hee oh gee and something for gas GasX he will need
kcthedog Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 4-Dec-2007 2:56am  

YES! That is such a rip-off! It is not a matter of the food! Just ask me and I will freely give it to whoever! Give me the satisfaction of “giving” rather steal my opportunity to feel “good”! Instead “whoever” steals both! It is “cheap’! I imagine that the perpetrator thinks it is “cute and funny”, and thinks he/she is getting away with something! I say set a trap for them, put some knarly rotted crap in the fridge and let them steal and eat that! They will think twice about taking something that doesn’t belong to them!
kcthedog Survey Central Gold Subscriber
(reply to Crayons) posted 4-Dec-2007 3:01am  

> Family fridge. My brother likes to steal my portion of the leftovers.
> Usually he just eats everything up that's good even though it doesn't
> belong to me, i'm not happy about it. He also uses too much toliet
> paper.



The part about the toilet paper is funny! What goes in, gotta come out!


*laughing out loud*
Biggles
posted 13-Jan-2008 11:18am  

Yes - when I was in halls at my last university. It didn't happen very often, and it would usually be my cheese or eggs. I worked very hard to keep my food bills down, and those were probably the most expensive things that I would buy (because cheap cheese is nasty, and I only buy free range eggs) so I wouldn't have them all that often. I used to stick a note on the fridge asking whoever ate them to please replace them, but they never did.

One of my friends had much more of a problem - someone used to eat her carefully saved leftovers that she had planned to have for dinner the next day. They would take pieces of quiche, portions of shepherds pie, drink her juice...I told her she should urinate in a bottle of apple juice, or make a super spicy portion of food, but she's nicer than I am...



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