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

I've never been in a situation where this could happen.

No and I can't saw I've never been in this type of situation either.

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.

Not me, but this has happened several times lately to people at my workplace.

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

I don't recall, although I'm inclined to think not.

No.

Not sicne my dog of an ex-roomate finally left.

Yes, when I was at university

At work: never
At home: all the time

FoxTurtle would dose everything with laxatives until the culprit got the message if this happened to him, so...

Just add laxatives.

Excellent answer.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just like my school bag.

In the dorm food got stolen all the time. Sometimes we had to padlock the fridge and pantry.

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.

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.

No never had this happen to me

> 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

Oh yes, why didn't I think of it?!

waxed paper

> waxed paper

yes leave him some waxed paper tee hee oh gee and something for gas GasX he will need

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!

> 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!

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...