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Substituting heavy cream for "coffee creamer"
"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 11/10/2013 6:19 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 11/10/2013 1:12 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On 11/10/2013 7:44 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:00:31 -0800, sf > wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:52:41 -0500, jmcquown >
>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Actually, at one place where I worked there used to be a problem
>>>>>>>> with people stealing other people's lunches.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't understand that kind of mentality.
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends. In an office with people getting a decent pay, hard to
>>>>>> understand.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I doubt anyone working where I did was that hard up. Someone pointed
>>>>> fingers at the cleaning crew. But unless you left your lunch in the
>>>>> fridge overnight, they wouldn't have access.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was *that* problem, too. People would bring stuff and it would
>>>>> sit
>>>>> in the refrigerator for a week. They instituted a Friday Fridge
>>>>> Cleanout.
>>>>> We don't care if it's your good Tupperware, get it out of the fridge
>>>>> or
>>>>> lose it.
>>>>>
>>>>>> In a shop that has a lot of minimum wage temps, part timers getting
>>>>>> only a few hours, some of these people are desperate and have not
>>>>>> eaten in a day or so. Your diet Coke may be the only food they get
>>>>>> that day. Happens more than you think.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've worked a few minimum wage jobs in my life. Even then I wouldn't
>>>>> steal someone's lunch. Or soda (if I drank soda).
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>>>> I once worked where there was a good kitchen with a largish fridge.
>>>> One
>>>> day
>>>> I picked up some milk for home and put it the fridge in its shop
>>>> carrier
>>>> bag. When I went back half of it was gone. I was very angry. Stuff
>>>> had
>>>> gone missing but no one had ever messed with stuff still in the bag! I
>>>> shouted around a bit and one woman was outraged for me and put a notice
>>>> on
>>>> the fridge warning everyone off. It turned out SHE was the
>>>> miscreant!!
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>>>> Hypocrites R Us or what??
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>>> That sounds a bit like when I came out of a store and found the side
>>> of my
>>> car bashed in. I was furious. I yelled, "Who the F*** hit my car?!" A
>>> little old lady toddled back towards me from the store entrance. "It
>>> wasn't me!" The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 
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>> Hmm at least is shows she probably had a guilty conscience Did anyone
>> see who did it?
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> No. No witnesses, no security cameras. There never are when you need
> one.
Huh ain't that the truth
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