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June 17, 2008 |
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Ghetto Food
FOUND by Brian
in Cleveland, Ohio
My co-workers and I found this note attached to the shared office refrigerator, which was down the hall and around the corner from our little pod.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I would not want to work anywhere near that office. Seriously.
And all those capital letters can't be good for the baby either... kids gonna have himself some anger issues...
(I wonder what happened to the rest of her sandwich? Is she too good to finish what the baby starver started?)
Come on, lady. If it was really a matter of your kid starving, you would have finished that sandwich even though some random stranger had a bite out of it.
Also, if you're gonna steal someone else's food out of the fridge, why just take one bite out of a sandwich? If you're gonna do it, don't be half-assed about it. Just eat the whole damn sandwich.
Maybe someone just really hates this lady (maybe because she gets all uppity and holier-than-thou about being preggers?) and knew that taking ONE bite out of her sandwich would incense her like this.
Why not just cut off the part that was bitten into? I'm sure the entire sandwich wasn't "infected" from this person's one bite.
I bet the food-thief took a bite out of the sandwich, and tasted that it wasn't their own lunch (which they had mistaken it for, as they had also brought a similar sandwich, in an identical brown paper bag). They immediately realized their error, and, quite embarrassed, put the bitten-off food back in the fridge, hoping its real owner wouldn't notice. Clearly, she did.
An honest mistake!
hmmmm........ "aggerating"??? Does she mean exaggerating? Sarcastic would make more sense.
Hmmmm...this note looks awfully familiar. I think I've seen it on Passiveagressivenotes.com or perhaps before here on found?
"aggerating"---sounds like she hates her "ex" so much she won't even use it in a word!
If I had mistaken someone else's lunchbag for my own, I would have put my untouched sandwich in her bag and let her wonder what the hell happened!
Of course I wouldn't make a mistake like that, because my sandwich would be veggie. Hard to mistake tofu gan for anything but what it is.
I think it was rats; big hungry rats that got caught in the act and scampered before thy could finish the sandwich. Pregnancy has made this woman too suspicious of her workmates.
baby basil - it was definitely on passiveaggressivenotes.com. i frequently check that site, and remember reading it on there - certainly doesn't make it less funny!!
I hope this woman and her baby survived. I understand frustration over stealing lunches (or in this case lunch meat and cheese) but this was a matter of life and death.
passiveaggressivenotes.com - I thought this was a joke but it's an actual site. Cool, I like it. Thanks babybasil.
Only a fool would eat a sandwich touched and virtually licked by a person of unknown cleanliness and unknown health issues. And what's with the title, "Ghetto Food" ? Sounds like someone's got a little racism issue.
If she's aggerating, she's not going to be able to eat food from this refrigerator very much longer anyway. Once she reaches the final stages of aggeration, she'll be moving to Texas where she will become the butt of Texas Aggie jokes till the cows come home.
Plus, if some icky guy is sneaking bites from people's lunches, he's not going to stand there at the refrigerator long enough to read this long a diatribe. Pregnant woman is going to need to post a Reader's Digest version if she wants to get through.
Either that, or make some really awfully, disgusting sandwiches for a week in order to get this icky guy out of the habit of stealing lunches.
Great, and now because you stole her sign, her baby, unborn or not, is going to starve because the food stealers will KEEP STEALING FOOD.
STOP STEALING SIGNS AND FOOD. YOU CAUSE MOTHERS AND BABIES TO STARVE.
of course, I'm aggerating.
I she wasn't starving she would think to leave a note saying she spit in her food or maybe she could just put laxitives in her sandwich and punish this person for starving her baby.
@get real people - please explain how this is racist? I'm tired of people saying something is racist without explaining why.
i think i've seen a similar note on passiveaggressivenotes.com which is hilarious and if you haven't checked it ut before, it's totally worth it.
I used to aggerate but I don't any more. I ex-aggerate (hugely!).
Good job mice can't read. Otherwise grammar nazi mouse would have pointed out 'OFF OF' is illiterate.
Memo -- before leaving a rambling passive-aggressive note, take a deep breath, listen to your own voice going 'BLAH BLAH BLAH', throw it away and just write a simple calm one that says 'PLEASE DON'T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S FOOD'. That's all you need. Won't stop anyone anyway.
Or just think -- that sandwich saved someone ELSE from starving (and SHE might have been pregnant too for all you know). Shut up and buy yourself another sandwich.
(Are you sure your baby appreciates lunch meat?? Yeuchh.)
Now -- who tok my green tea, lotus and orange tea bags? I'm serious.
If she's in the building, she must work there, have a job, get paid. So why is she starving? If she didn't spend all her money on bingo and smokes, maybe she'd have enough money to buy a nice healthy salad at the caf. Not that i'm being a judgenmental asswhole or anything.
That's enough aggeration for me. Anyone see my donut?
It's just as well someone took a bite out of her sandwich. When I was pregnant, my OB told me not to eat lunch meat because of the possibility of listeriosis. This person may have saved her and her baby and here she is yelling at this person! How ungrateful.
Yeah, definately one of my favorite passiveaggressivenotes.com. Let's try to come up with some original material here
What I'm tired of is people saying things like, "Feel free to starve me, but not my baby." That makes absolutely no sense, and having a bite taken out of your sandwich is not worse if you are pregnant. Every inconvenience is not multiplied by two just because you're with child!!
The deed, the grammar, the capital letters, the aggerating, the humanity...
...this one gave me a headache.
We have this happen at work all the time. After a pizza carry-in, we saved the two whole leftover pizzas for lunch the next day, and someone on the night shift had taken a bite out of EVERY SINGLE PIECE. (I see why she uses capitals now). It IS aggerating. Of course, that is kinda how the night shift rolls, so I wasn't really surprised. We got some scary folks on that shift.....
I guess it's true that only stupid people are breeding.
I just found these guidelines, with regard to "found objects"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A257799
i think it should apply to sandwiches, too, tho food items are not mentioned specifically. If the biter of the meat and cheese had followed these guidelines, there wouldn't have been a problem.
(some of the funniest comments in a long time! Carla Sue's comment reminded me of the guy who ate all the white stuff from each and every cookie in a pkg of oreos with double stuff, and left only the tooth-marked, naked wafers.)
Okay, leave the pissed off pregnant lady alone. She's big, she's hungry, and she has a lot of unbalanced hormones right now!
Some advice for the unknowing hordes out there from a previously aggerated pregger: Never EVER come between a pregnant woman and her lunch. They WORRY about whether or not their babies are getting the proper nutrition, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. For instance, when I was preggers with my first, I would worry so much that my baby would be nutrient deficient that before I would go to work, I would eat six eggs for breakfast. Then at lunch I would eat an entire Big Mac meal. And then of course, dinner. I had the most horrible heartburn after the eggs, and I gained a huge amount of weight, but the point is that pregnant people take their food seriously.
The lunch meat worries me. I have a pregnant friend and she made it a point to explain that lunch meat isn't good for pregnant women. I checked and found this online as well as some additional information on the USDA site.
http://www.storknet.com/cubbies/pregnancy/exjf
Could it be possible that the food thief was actually helping the pregnant woman?
Maybe I should have said that I was worried about being calorie deficient, rather than nutrient deficient, since Big Macs don't offer much nutrition.
Also while pregnant, I became a germ nazi. I made my husband take off his work clothes at the door of our home before he could come all the way in. It makes me laugh now to realize how silly and ridiculous I was about things then. I would never do that now.
My first pregnancy, I tried to give up caffeine. I was out of my mind, trying to subsist on watery de-caf. It didn't work. Finally, I simply cut down my intake. Mommy + No Coffee = Crazy Preggers Lady, get out of the way!
This would've been better if it hadn't already been on Passive-Aggressive Notes (dot com).
YOU DID NOT FIND THIS NOTE!
IT WAS POSTED ON OTHER SITES LONG BEFORE THIS YOU JERK. Why don't you ACTUALLY find something original and post that, instead of finds that others have found before you.
You SUCK!!!
Yeah and it was already on Passive aggressive notes dot com
in the finder's defense, perhaps someone found this note on Passive aggressive notes dot com, thought it was funny, and posted it on the fridge at their work. The finder, perfectly innocent of its origins, found it and thinks its funny, and appropriate for this site.
Renee, i think the vehemence of your post is uncalled for. "find something original"??? like we have control over what we find? thats ludicrous. Who, exactly, are you calling a jerk? the finder? Jason? Who sucks??
take a deep breath and count to 10. Just like Jonathan said, about what you should do before you post a passive aggressive note, you should do the same before an angry post. (I'm doing my best to take my own advice)
@ Burin ... lunchmeat isn't good for ANYbody.
@Julse ... having your husband take off his clothes was how you got pregnant in the first place, remember?
oh, hey, yeah we get it that it was on passiveagressivenotes.com. i mean 10 people already mentioned that. would it kill you to read the comments ahead of yours before you just repeat yourself meaninglessly?
Hey did you guys know this was on passiveaggressivenotes.com first!
Wait...or did somebody...already...uh, nevermind.
@ Librarian "lunchmeat isn't good for ANYbody"
Thank You.
@Jessica: Look up the word "irony." And while you're at it, check the definition of "sarcasm." Maybe then you'll get it.
"I made my husband take off his work clothes at the door of our home before he could come all the way in."
@Julse, nekkid hubby on the doorstep must have been a sight to see! And you standing there, preggers, demanding the clothes come off! The neighbors must have found this all so droll. :o)
This Find has left me aggitated, aggravated, and strangely invigorated, and that's no exaggeration.
Well...I did let him get in the door before I demanded his clothes. I didn't want to share him with the neighbors. That was 16 years and two and a half kids ago. I lost my germaphobia when the last kid turned about two. But I still don't take kindly to people messing with my food.
...When the thief realized the sandwich was really baby food he/she ceased consumption...
LMAO!!! I think this is HILARIOUS!!
I have had my lunch stolen before, I went out and bought me more lunch, but what I should have done is posted a similar note ;) It got so bad at my previous job that a memo was sent out company wide stating if anyone is caught stealing a lunch they would be terminated.
I probably would have eaten around the bite if I was "starving" but eh maybe you can get coodies from partially eaten meat and cheese :O
**MEMO TO RENEE IN KANSAS**
JUST AN FYI, IT USUALLY TAKES A LONG WHILE TO GET A FOUND POSTED ON HERE AFTER IT WAS SUBMITTED, PERHAPS HE WAS THE ORIGINAL "FINDER" AND SINCE THE EVENT OF THE FIND HAS BEEN POSTED ELSEWHERE.
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Where do some people get so much ignorance? Is it an inherent thing? Hmmmmm
Y'all, please stop screaming.
Since when does the word GHETTO specify any specific race?!?! I live in a GHETTO neighborhood that is all WHITE, and we are all ghetto LOL, I think your either way too sensitive or you are the racist one.
Will the real racist please stand up, please stand up, please stand up....
Let's all just relax, don't do it, let your body get to it.....
Would you not be totally freaked out, disgusted and alarmed if an unknown entity (rat, icky man, cubicle neighbor, etc) took a single bite out of your sandwich, wrapped it back up and put it back in the fridge? The thought of someone else rifling through my lunch bag gives me the heebie jeebies! To me, that would step beyond annoying to harrassment. Good for you, Ms. Preggers. Your note isn't at all passive agressive, I thought it was very much to the point.
Haven't you people learned to just agree with everything a pregnant women says? And to mess with her food, yeesh!
aren't you people just delightful today...
and darling, I'd appreciate it if you would put away the angry caps. the word ghetto is already pretty defined without the addition of block letters.
Life's a shit sandwich, eat or starve.
Maenad, I find your naivete refreshing. It was on purpose, one bite just to piss someone off.
And - even though she didn't sign the note... it's the pregnant lady. She wrote it.
You ate my sandwich?
YOU ATE MY SANDWICH??!!
good lord.. I spoke too soon. Way to go, Renee... you're sounding a bit SALTY today.
Is it the weather? why's everyone wound up so tight today?
Utah Girl, where you been?
I've never seen this on passiveaggressivenotes.com, so it's a FIND to me.
By the way.. HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, FOUND MAGAZINE!! (whenever it actually is. SOON, yes?) Oh, and these aren't angry shouting caps. they're happy, excited, let's slam a few beers caps.
Thanks for entertaining the masses for 7 effin' years, Found Folk. YOU TOTALLY ROCK.
Bun in the Oven: is there something you need to tell us? Hey, here's a thought--a little surprise like that could make an interesting BLOG! :)
I grew up in the ghetto. I'm white. The majority of the people who lived there were Vietnamese. That must mean that if you call things "ghetto" you are racist against Vietnamese people. And everybody knows that Vietnamese people steal your cheese and starve your unborn babies.
Found has been around for 7 years and I only discovered it last year?? How many years I have wasted my life!!! :'( lol jk I love found though :)
Hey Bun!! Warm buns are awesome! ;)
I have been busy doing the whole newlywed thing keeping me kinda busy, and now I have a new job where I can get on found at work again! Yay!!
*looks around cautiously and whispers to bun* "Sooo ummm do I know ya?"
Holy - Canoly!! Man, was I entertained this morning reading ALL these posts about...BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!
I've never seen this note on passiveaggressive, either, so, it's a FIND to me, as well.
Anyone need a chill-pill?
(new to me, too... the note that is -- not the concept)
A long time ago, I worked in an ofice with a lot of different types of people. One sweet quiet sensible gal brought her lunch just about every day. After a while, this overgrown gigantic teenager (altho' 28 years old) decided that he couldn't wait until lunch to eat (and he didn't bring his lunch). He started stealing HER sandwiches, etc. (he left the apples and/or carrot sticks.) Finally she brought her brown-bag in and labeled it "CAUTION!! GONORRHEA GERMS!" - and it was left alone!!
That same overgrown jerk - a few months later - told everyone for days "don't bring your lunch Thursday; I'm bringing lunch for everyone." It turned out to be a so-so stroganoff (I only ate a bite, thank heavens)... Then he announced, laughing out loud "That was horse meat stroganoff!!"
I think a few people pledged to vegetarianism that day! (what a jerk!!)
Oh...I've seen it on passiveagressive as well but it is always good to be reminded that a pregnant woman deserves her food!
@sick in tired:
wow, someone should put your post at me on passiveaggressivenotes.com. i think it would fall under the guidelines. dick.
@THIEF LURKING in THE LUNCHROOM:
'Since when does the word GHETTO specify any specific race?!?!'
Since you ask, since 17th century Venice, where the original 'ghetto' was the name of the district where the Jews lived. Either from 'getto' meaning 'foundry', since the Jewish district was built on the site of a foundry, or 'ghetto' from 'borghetto' meaning a little 'borgo' or town, hence roughly the same as 'borough'.
That is all.
LOL Jonathan you are so cute!
NO news to report!! Zip. zero. Zilch. Nada. A big fat goose egg.
It was merely the "posting name of the day," to go along with the theme of hungry pregnant food defenders. (unless, of course, the Lord is working in some seriously mysterious ways again... "I BELIEVE!")
LOL.
That is all.
Just for clarification, Brian in Cleveland submitted the note to PA Notes AND to Found. Here's the link:
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/06/
I'm glad someone else instantly thought of Ross from friends, and the start of his Rage
I'm not sure why the title is "Ghetto Food." Does poor grammar/spelling automatically equal "ghetto"? Furthermore, what is the significance of the (assumed) whereabouts? Does it matter where this takes place, beyond an office building? Isn't this just a delightfully ridiculous note about office lunchfood-snatchers? Once again, careful with those words, Eugene.
Amy, you rock! Thanks for that.