stolen lunch

never accuse too early

One of the worst ways to start work after a tiring long weekend is to get in the office and find that some of your belongings have been removed by an 'unknown' force.

Worst still, if it was your lunch. Gahhhhhhhhh

The half-eaten tub of yogurt was missing.
The brand new tub was also missing.
The mayo sauce was missing.

Seriously?? Who would wanna eat someone else's half-eaten yogurt?

Whoever that was, he/she could have spared me the half-eaten tub.
And the mayo was expired by the way.

I stared at the much empty fridge for a couple of seconds. Like wth? What's for lunch?

Then I thought, a thief wouldn't steal in such an unplanned and stupidly obvious manner.
Or maybe he/she is a stupid thief?

There must have been some kind of 'open' fridge-spring-cleaning over the long weekend.
'Open' means to do it openly with or without authority and not hideous about it.

The first person who crossed my mind as The Possible Culprit was the admin. Hahaha. I know I shouldn't...

To prevent causing further abrasion between us, I thought I should let the matter go.

A tinge of reluctance crept over me...in loving memory of my sacrificed yogurt.
It was unopened. It wasn't expired. Did she even check the expiry? Why the need to throw it? She can still clean the fridge without throwing out stuff.

Should I point it out to her or keep mum? Arghhhhh...dilemma.

I opened and closed, opened and closed the fridge. Should I or should I not?

I decided to speak out because it's immoral to throw food and unethical to do it without permission from the owners.
I can't have my yogurt back but I also don't want it to sacrifice in vain.
At least point out to her that the stuff she put into the bin were still EDIBLE.
They could have fed 5 or more empty stomachs.

So I called out for her from the kitchen since she sits just 5 metres away.
I said Ann...did you see my yogurt? There were two tubs last Friday. Now there's none.
She looked a little lost.
I said the fridge looks empty too.
She said she didn't notice the empty fridge until I mentioned. Maybe the cleaner cleaned it last Friday. She'll email them to check.

Okayyy. So it wasn't her?
I was prepared for her to raise her voice at me explaining why the food needed to be binned.
Thankfully, we didn't have to go there.
She was calm and cooperative.
She might not need the anti-angryface botox anymore. Hehehe.

I acknowledge the 'difficult' sides of her.
Sometimes she loses her temper.
Sometimes she gets cranky.
Sometimes she's bossy.
Sometimes she's mean.
As I'm starting to accept her for who she is, I also hope the 'difficult' list doesn't grow any longer.
Luckily it didn't.

She later confirmed that all the fridges in our building were cleaned. But ours was not meant to be one of them. The cleaner did it by mistake. And the building manager will replace all the missing items.

Oh dear cleaner, I hope you didn't put those food into the bin but brought them home instead. Otherwise, you must be dumber than dumb.

Later, my senior told me that his new bag of tomatoes and chili mayo sauce were missing too.
He realised it first thing in the morning and thought it must be Ann who did it (looks like I'm not the only person who suspected her). Lol!
He chose to keep quiet about it just to not make her mad.
Even the Libran backed off this time; I wonder where did my courage come from this morning?
I forgot to ask if he told them to replace 'a bag of tomatoes, some lettuce, and Aldi's chili mayo sauce', that must be funny. Hehe.

Glad that we cleared the mist and didn't accuse the wrong person.
Ann's a nice person after all if we're willing to look pass her flaws.
Let's see if I can apply this on my senior.