Story 4: So why isn't anyone in that situation taking note of the fact that not only did that mother bring her child into a workshop space full of machinery, tools, sharp and or hot objects, but she left them completely unsupervised to the degree that said child was able to roam free and steal food from staff members? That child could have gotten into so much worse trouble than a spicy sandwich. They could have instead lost fingers or a limb to machinery. A legal nightmare in the making for the actual workshop in allowing the child to be brought in. Pure stupidity by the mother at best, willful negligence and child endangerment at the worst. Yikes!
_That's_ the bigger question no one is asking: what parent is irresponsible enough to bring a child to their workplace where even trained adults run the risk of being injured?
Last story - r/Slash is right. I was dating a girl and we got into an argument once. Not a "want to pull a gun" argument, but a small tiff. In out of the blue she slapped me across the face, HARD. Her nails actually cut my cheek open. I just looked at her, stunned. She keep going off about how she was sick of me leaving my clothes EVERYWHERE. For context, I had put my jacket on a chair because it had been raining outside and it needed to dry before I hung it up. I just smiled, said no problem, then proceeded to pack what few things I had there into my backpack and left. She yelled, cried, begged for me to stay, she was SSOOOOORRRRYYYY!!! I just said, "what would you have done if I slapped you like that, have me arrested, right?" She just stood there in silence as I walked out the door. Never saw her again.
Last story, rslash is right, if your partner (male or female it doesn't matter) physically assaults you in anger then it is over, no second chances for that, you just leave immediately once it is safe to do so
@@boyboss3322I can recall on two hands the amount of domestic homicides happened just because of that idea. They have to go to anger management and YOU can't do that for them. They have to be forced to otherwise they won't get help.
Story 4: Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do to stop a food thief. Also, how was OP supposed to know that the thief was the child? Like, the child should've known better than to steal food
And the fact that they sided with the janitor simply because "she's a mother". Bro, not only they are in a way siding with a thief, they are sexist as well because they sided with the janitor because she's a mother/female.
Some of our parents don’t feed us and we get desperate. I wasn’t a food thief because I was sure I would get caught and punished severely but it made me incredibly quick to share food as soon as I was an adult.
@@threecards333 I understand that. I am just pointing out the children should no better than steal food can at times be much more complicated than people think at times.
If my son stole someone’s food and had the same thing happen to him, I’d tell him that it served him right for taking stuff that doesn’t belong to him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I knew better by the age of five not to pull that kind of stunt. If I had done that at that kids age, I'd probably still be eating my meals standing up. My parents would also have apologized to OP, made me apologize to OP, and I would have gotten zero sympathy from them for any pain I might be suffering.
Sue the landlord too, their negligence and siding with the wrong side at the cost of your occupancy shouldn’t go on abated, don’t stop until you own that building and then dismiss the naysayers who went against you.
@@ProjectNaturePrds OP is lucky the mom doesn't press charges. OP set up a trap to intentionally harm a food thief, not make himself a lunch (even wrote a note warning not to eat). When it comes to a courtroom, motives and intentions matter a great deal.
@jesseelves959 He set up a food trap, yes, but who's to say that OP doesn't actually like spicy food. Just because it's a trap doesn't mean he's incapable of eating it. A court would gather evidence of Op liking or disliking spicy food before making him guilty but most likely the mother would be in trouble even though she is pressing charges because letting your child eat food and you don't know what's in it is child endangerment and letting them wander around unsupervised isn't a good look either.
@@QuayHollywood You forget OP left a note of warning, admitted in the post of his intent, and left to get lunch elsewhere. If someone could possibly eat the sandwich unharmed is irrelevant, it's the motives behind the sandwich that matter. Judges are generally intelligent individuals who look for intent behind the actions. OP admitted his intent was to cause discomfort (harm). Intentionally causing harm is a crime. *personally I hope everyone walks away learning something: -Don't steal food -Children need supervision -Setting traps have unintended consequences
This. The OP admitting he 'spiked the sandwich' puts him in liability since this suggests he knew it was being pilfered & intended to cause harm. In America...that's legal seppuku. Your response would resolve the entire situation. Yay honesty getting you f'd here. Poor OP.
Reaper pepper story: Teach your brat not to take things that dont belong to them. 9 years old us old enough to read a sign that says dont eat my food. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Also its not over yet. Depending on how much of the pepper sauce the kid ate.........lets just say his mouth isnt going to be the only thing burning once it digests........
@@danielbrant6740Her anger should be at her brat of a kid. OP did nothing wrong here. Idk how they all convinced the simp of a landlord to kick out OP and his business partner, but if this causes the lease to be broken, then there may as well be some financial compensation from the landlord and the stupid woman as well.
@@danielbrant6740 That's called poetic justice. Don't take things that don't belong to you. It's not an isolated incident . He has taken Ops food before. He is well within his right to put whatever he wants on his sandwich. It even says in the story that the kid bypassed the lunches his mom made for him, meaning he had his own food. Poetic justice.
The thought of the food thief crying in the toilet with a wicked case of firehole brings me some comfort. Looking forward to a homemade sandwich for your lunch break, only to find some or all of it eaten, is soul crushing
Story 4: First off the mom needs to keep a better eye on her kid and teach him not to steal, so bad mom. Second OP left a note warning that it was hot and not to eat it, so the kid is to dumb to read I guess. Third it wasn't poison but an actual condiment that most people don't like, what if the kid had an allergy would it be OP's fault if the kid had an allergic reaction from stealing food?
All the blame falls onto the mother and son in this case. The OP really should be filing lawsuits in regards to this situation for his landlord breaking the lease and for the monetary damage the woman and her brat caused. Also, the landlord needs to put a fridge in each space. No more of this shared fridge bs.
@@thetruth1816 Someone posted in a comment that apparently OP didn’t lose their space and everything seems to maybe be moved on from? Idk. Cba finding the update in the sea of Reddit, and since RSlash doesn’t post story links, I guess we’ll never know. 🤷♂️
Fr did you hear the article about Disney officially breaking up Minnie and Mickey mouse like a couple weeks ago? Turns out it was just a misunderstanding because disney released comic art of Disney characters as marvel characters for a what if line of merchandise, and Mickey and Daisy were dressed as a superhero couple. I think antman and wasp?
Crap.. I was gonna quote a thing but there's no way I can do it without sounding like something much worse. By the way, I only hit you because of my pent up aggression against your father. *flies away*
Goodness. I hope that OP from the fifth story understands how unbelievably lucky she got. Intentional or unintentional. She sent a sexually explicit photo to a young new hire in her workplace. That could have gone so wrong for her.
Idk man, how do you not notice, and as my gf pointed out to me, 3 whole days? I'm sure she texted and said something to her husband how did she not,NOT notice the ass pic wasn't there.
Men, if a woman hits you, treat it the same as a man hitting your sister or mother. Call the cops and dont let them get away with their abuse. If a person is willing to hit another person when they were in no danger, that is a crime, reguardless of the sex of the person. If they hit you, THEY DO NOT LOVE YOU!
Story 2 happened to one of my classmates as well. One winter, it was snowing, so the schools were closed for about 2 days. One of my classmates, C, took a screenshot of an article that said "Schools closed on Tuesday", simply replaced the Tuesday with Wednesday, and then sent it on our class group chat to prank us. Too bad for him, one of our other classmates shared it with some of her friends before she realized it was fake, and the screenshoot got shared all over our relatively small city. It got to the point where the mayor had to release an official statement online to say that, no, schools were open on Wednesday, and that the culprit was being "investigated". We teased C for a long time after that, calling him a fugitive and whatnot.
The mother of the food thief child should blame herself for letting her child be a food thief instead of the person whose food was being stolen and eventually set up a trap to catch the thief. Yes, the child was harmed in the incident, but it wasn't like he was poisoned; otherwise, OP would be guilty of a much worse crime.
Pepper Story: This made me think of another food thief story where the thief went into anaphylactic shock after consuming Thai peanut sauce. Turns out the food thief was the daughter of OP's boss. Though proven the harm wasn't intentional, I think OP still had to get a lawyer involved to protect themselves (And privately find a new job). Just ... leave everyone's crap alone! We're taught at a VERY young age that it's not cool to take what's not ours! I'm just pissed OP never got their justice.
For the food thief story: there is no way in heck that OP is in the wrong. The brat was STEALING FOOD. How tf is that “trivial?” The kid didn’t have permission to eat the food, he ate the food anyways, and somehow it’s OP’s fault?!?! I love the comeback here, because it’s true: WHAT IF the OP just liked spicy food?!?! Why would that be so bad? This is 1000% on the kid and his enabling mother here, and the landlord telling them to move out should go against their lease agreement. Threaten to call the cops? Go ahead. Tell them we won’t say a word until our lawyer arrives. This whole situation is absolutely insane, as is the situation with most food thieves…the best way to not get a mouthful of hot sauce or a pepper that makes your whole body feel like it’s on fire is just to NOT STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S FOOD. 🙄🙄🙄
Except legally they could get in trouble because you can’t trap food like that. The note and the fact they went out to eat shows the intent to harm the food thief. If they had stayed until the thief ate the trapped food then they couldn’t prove intent. The note would just be a warning letting the thief know it’s hot and they shouldn’t eat it. Now morally I agree op shouldn’t get in trouble but that’s not how the legal system works. Especially if you get the case in front of a jury and the prosecutor leans heavily on the fact that it was “just a kid.”
@@scuba535 It by definition is NOT a trap if there is sufficient warning, and there obviously was. And it's not a harmful substance that's in the sandwich, it's something safe to be consumed by most humans(besides those with allergies and stomach ulcers, but that is the case for a lot of foods), so there can be no intent to harm the food thief, as the so called 'trap' simply can not harm the food thief. It can only work to deter them either by warning or undesirable taste, but it could also have easily been seen as something desirable by the thief, as some people simply love spicy food. If there is intent to harm, it would at most be intent to harm the taste buds of the thief, but even that can't really be proven as it's simply a matter of preference at the end of the day. To say that there was intent to harm the thief in this case, would be similar to saying that there is intent to harm a thief if you set up a 5 meter high wall around your property. The warning is obvious, the wall is there as a deterrent, if a thief climbs the wall and falls down breaking his bones, does that mean that just by building such a wall around my property, i set up a trap for a would be thief to climb and fall to get harmed in the eyes of law? That would be beyond ridiculous...
@@scuba535 Now IANAL, but I believe that the prosecution would be hard pressed proving that this food was a “trap,” as you put it. So the OP put something with hot sauce in the fridge and then went out to eat. Big deal. Maybe they just decided randomly to go out to eat that day. Plausible deniability is easy to use to disprove a lot of theories, at least according to the lawyer channels I’ve seen on this platform. The intent of having the spicy sandwich there was for it to be eaten, possibly by the OP, hence the warning note; the fact that it wasn’t just shows the thief’s intent of eating the OP’s food. This reminds me of another story where the food thief was halal due to their religion, and OP brought in a pork sandwich to have for lunch on that day. Now, is it that OP’s fault for bringing in a pork sandwich that they had intentions of eating and it got stolen? Of course not! And what if these food thieves have food allergies to something commonly used in every day lunches? Is it the victims’ faults for bringing foods with those allergens when they expected to eat them themselves????? Regardless, I see absolutely 0 reason why the landlord is kicking OP out. That seems way over the top and insane for this kind of issue. The OP did nothing wrong. Why is that not easy to see? The OP was the victim of a food thief, and one of the things they brought for lunch was stolen that had drastic consequences for the thief. The only way to prove intent on the OP’s part is your argument of “but they went out to lunch,” to which can be argued back, “So? Is that suddenly a crime?” How many times have we brought a lunch to work and then decided to go out instead? Sometimes people change their minds, and that’s not a bad thing. Also, put damn refrigerators in the private workspaces, or alternatively give tenants the right to purchase their own for their workspace and take it with them when they leave. That’ll solve this whole issue right here with no more insanity.
@@scuba535 Tricking somebody to eat spicy food without them knowing is assault! But OP literally added a warning message to the sandwiches. Making him NOT liable! Meaning the mother of the thief is 100$ liable for any damages done, to goods AND to the child! The mother recklessly left the undiciplined child unsupervised in a WORKSHOP area, where ignoring warning labels can literally KILL you! Child protective services should be called, to remove the child from that sorrunding and his terrible mother!
Fourth story: That's less TIFU and more Entitled Parents, Kids and People, the mother, the thieving kid, the landlord and whoever else sided with the entitled mother and her thieving kid.
Food thieves deserve no sympathy or mercy. If the kid had, say, a peanut allergy, and OP had peanut in every single one of his sandwiches, would OP be at fault if the kid went into anaphylatic shock? Of course not, so why is he at fault here? If anything, the cleaner should've been punished for not supervising her own kid. This is messed up.
The difference between your example and this case is intent. If OP put peanuts in their sandwich because they like peanuts and someone with a peanut allergy ate it, it wouldn't be their fault. OP admitted to trapping the sandwich, so they're pretty much screwed legally.
@@scottbecker4367 Mmm, nope. It's on the thief for eating something without confirming it's peanut-free. Or, you know, the thief could just... not steal other people's food.
@@scottbecker4367Nope. This is a misnomer. If it was spiked with something toxic or poisonous that the OP couldn't eat then yes, he would be in trouble legally. But since it was just a condiment that is completely edible, even if he admitted it was a trap, he can just say 'well, I like spicy food, and it SAYS it was spicy'.
Story 4: at my old job, someone kept stealing lunches. We were a group of about 12 women from 20’s to 60’s, and 4 men. 2 of the men had very strict diets due to (1) an organ transplant, and (2) diabetes. The other ladies often brought in food to share, potluck style. But if there was a packed lunch in the fridge, it would often go missing. Mine seemed to disappear quite often. So, I’d been taking asian cooking lessons, and made a fiery Thai curry. This was many years ago when ethnic foods weren’t commonplace. I went in to get lunch, and saw mine was gone. My bag was there, but the curry container was gone. I looked everywhere, to no avail. Around 4, one of my co-workers (our dock loader) ran to the bathroom and locked the door. When he came out, his eyes were red and watery. He was moaning about “it must be food poisoning”. But he never said what it was. I followed that up with some incendiary chili, which caused the same reaction. Several of us who’d had our lunches kyped started making innocuous looking lunches. Things like PB&J, tuna sandwiches, etc. but adding a ‘pocket’ of extremely spicy hot sauce or hot peppers. After about 2 weeks, the lunches stopped being stolen. Then, the boss, who’d also had lunches stolen, put a time clock on the break room door. This was genius, because you had to clock out for lunch or break times. Everyone had their own code, so we’d know who clocked in and out, and could check to make sure lunches were still in the fridge. Bonus: dock loader thief quit and I got a call asking for a reference. I said he was a great worker, he was, but to keep your lunches either loaded with hot sauce and peppers, or put a locked door and time lock by the lunch room. He did get the job, but I never heard if he’d learned his lesson!
For the Carolina Reaper sauce story, usually the "using capsacin to catch lunch thief" stories ends up in r/ProRevenge, but this time the capsacin sandwich hit a child of an entitled mother. Honestly, I think OP is NTA since he just assumed the thief is an adult (like those stories read in past r/ProRevenge), and while Carolina Reaper sauce is super hot, it doesn't kill or do harm to people (unless the one consuming it is allergic to it, or have some sort of mouth infection/inflammation already). And, even the "lunch thief" is just a 9 year-old kid, it's just not right to steal other's lunch. Even worse, his mother encouraging this stealing behaviour is really toxic. She escalating the situation makes me think that she wants to stir up the muddy water to avoid punishment and blame OP. She is making such a bad example for her kid.
You're wrong about capsaicin not being able to kill. Mace/pepper spray can cause asphyxiation due to inflammation and it only takes about 12-13 grams of capsaicin to kill a 150 lb person. The vast amount of knowledge available at your fingertips is insane, I suggest you learn to use it a bit more.
12 grams of capsaicin is like 300 or more of the spiciest pepper ever bred. You essentially just proved yourself wrong since you just showed there is no practical way to kill someone this way. The sandwich would have to be over 4 inches tall to contain that much ROFL. The vast amount of knowledge available at your fingertips is insane, I suggest you learn to use it a bit more@@kingimura2430
@@kingimura2430the amount mentioned in the video is about two grams of peppers, not capsicum. It's safe to say that amount has an infinitesimal chance of harming anyone unless they were highly allergic.
@@kingimura2430 You will also die if you ingest 100g of salt, so what? You actually have a great chance to die even if you ingest just 50g depending on how hydrated you are. And well, if you can ingest 13g of capsaicin, it would be pretty much on purpose. You would otherwise spit it out of your mouth after starting to chew, we have taste buds for a reason. Just like how you would spit it out of your mouth if some sandwich was laced with deadly amount of salt in it or somethin. No normal human would keep on eating it after a bite and giving it a chew...
OP's didn't F up in the sandwich story by feeding spicy food to a child, OP F'd up when he admitted to it. He should have just said he was in the mood for spicy sandwiches and didn't think anyone would touch his food. Then OP could have turned it around and asked the mom why she allowed her child to take others food. When she denied knowing about it OP could have asked why her child was unsupervised. Then all the blame would be where it's supposed to be, with the mom.
The titular story reminds me of one where somebody's lactose intolerant roommate was stealing food clearly labeled in the fridge, and so they used some kind of unnoticable dairy ingredient to expose them.
Today i effed up by listening to rslash within ear shot of my kids, and now they know the tooth fairy isn't real. Edit: after a solid 45 minutes of very awkward silence my daughter (10) looks at me and says i knew the tooth fairy was you. $17.76 dad.....(referring to 2 years ago when she lost a tooth on july 3rd and woke up to that amount the next day). So i smirked and said you got me.
I've never understood why parents will let their kids believe in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus, but will turn around and tell those same kids "don't lie".
TikToks: If a fight with my partner included "hitting me, screaming at me, calling me names, then slamming the door," that would be the very last time I ever saw them. Once, my ex put his fist through the wall, right next to me. I left immediately and never looked back. It could just have easily been my face he smashed. Line drawn at violence. Period.
punishment spice: Sounds like the cleaner is an EM (Entitled Mother) and her kid, is allowed to do whatever he wants and she won't discipline him - at least not in the case of "Oh hey free unattended food!" and turning the kid into an EK (Entitled Kid).
Story number four: I've had my lunch stolen at work at previous jobs before. I've also read many stories about food thieves on reddit. OP was just doing what they had to do to weed out the thief. How on Earth was he supposed to know that it was a child? Obviously, the kid isn't learning boundaries, that he shouldn't take things that isn't his and had no understanding that consequences for his behavior exist. I think it's absolutely insane that OP is being treated like the villain here when he just made spicy food for himself. The fact that he had to put a note on his own food that it was spicy and not to eat it, was clearly indicating there was a food theft problem. I still can't understand how this backfired. The landlord siding with the mother thus negatively reinforcing her bad parenting as well as the kid's bad behavior is just mind-boggling to me. I know this might be stretching it, but better the kid learn now not to take things that don't belong to him than continue the thievery well into adulthood. Consequences only become more severe with time and age.
Lunch thief story: The major mistake OP made here was the note, along with having lunch out so it looks like a intentional trap which people are probably using as evidence that harming the lunch thief who turned out to be a child was intentional. What OP should have done, was to make something that they could eat that was spicy and have lunch as usual. So when the chaos happened OP could prove that hey that was their regular lunch, they had no idea the kid was going to eat it. As I recall another OP experiencing a lunch thief did something like this, and that's how they avoided trouble since they proved they were going to eat it as normal. Not sure if this will teach the kid honestly not to steal, or just that Mommy will fly to their defense and the little shit can do what they want cause Mommy will protect them. Hopefully they learn, and don't turn out to be an entitled little shit.
Story 1: I don't blame the mom for being pissed here. Their kid got assaulted, but it's not like OP did it on purpose and shouldn't have wanted to press charges. But hey, at least their dad was chill about it.
@@survivedandthrivingI'm gonna comment on the radio bit. I use radios on our job sites often (logging) because the area is usually too vast to really speak to each other, not to mention loud sounds and such. While I'm not intimately familiar with them, I do know that the antennas were super fragile. Lots of the ones we were using were also broken and we had to be careful not to drop them or otherwise damage them. I would be more surprised if OPs antenna wasn't broken after how much ours were. I'd blame whoever got him equipped for not explaining the radio thoroughly, and OP for doing that even as a joke. He should've just done it with his hands empty like the kid did.
@@wingracer1614THANK YOU. Everyone gets battery and assault confused. Assault is the INTENT, whereas battery is the PHYSICAL ACT. Even then, battery isn't even applicable in this story.
Veronica Mars: OP, you have the defense of the bizarre statements. You could claim "I wasn't actually trying to stage a hoax, I threw in those statements at the end to clue the reader in that it was a joke by the end of it. When my roommate saw them, he figured out that it was fake. It's not my fault these people cannot read the whole thing through
Story 4: As someone who eat spicy food in my everyday life and someone who born in country that does not normalise food thief, my mind straight away "what the fuck happen in west or usa? “ Do that in my country, everyone will tease, mock and laugh at your suffering expense before calling for help
1st story: If charges were filed against OP I would go with 'felony stupid'. I kind of think any radio antenna would snap off doing that, not just defective ones.
Story 4: unfortunately, intentionally "trapping" your food for thieves can be considered assault in some places. Now if not for the note, OP could argue that's just how HE likes to eat them (I ALWAYS add hot sauce to my food), but since he added the sauce, left a note AND left to eat elsewhere, he would very likely be punished as it was his intent to catch (police and courts COULD argue "harm) the thief, child or not. It's stupid but does happen. A former coworker got fired because they did similar.
It's matters what you put on the note "this is hot to punish a thief" vs "hey, I made my food extra hot today because I needed some spice in my life". If you know your food is sometimes taken, a warning like the 2nd is actually smart. Technically, If you have a shared fridge environment, having a warning card when you put something that is commonly allergenic (like pepper or peanuts, which can both be anaphylaxis reactions) is smart. Thief or not, it allows people with allergies to keep their food seperate
@@TheWeakMindedin this case the intent to harm the food thief is proven by the fact they went to eat somewhere else leaving the trapped food for the thief. If they had stayed just like all the other days until the thief stole the food you couldn’t prove intent as easily.
@@scuba535How does that prove anything? Dude cant change his mind about what he wants to eat that day? Some brain dead people really trying to defend a shit parent and her thief child.
Unfortunately? I dislike food thieves too, but I think society should take the stance that booby trapping your food to punish a food thief is wrong. At least it was just hot peppers and not laxatives.
Food thief stories are a dime a dozen on Reddit, and I’m at a 99.99% rate on believing that the food thieves were the ones in the wrong every single time (there may be a small margin of error, but you don’t mess with someone’s food. It’s sacred). And having had food/drink stolen from MY lunch/snack before out of the fridge at work, I have 0 sympathy.
I see no reason why what OP did was unacceptable. Since when do people have to cater to the flavoring preferences of the people who steal their food? There are people who would eat that much hot sauce and like it. And yes, that's a bit of a harsh lesson for the kid, but the kid wasn't actually harmed so...
@@Avalikiathe only thing op did that was wrong was never intending to eat the trapped food. They went out to eat after intentionally spiking the food with a super hot sauce.
Hot sauce: rslash, even in the US, you cannot intentionally plan to cause someone harm by setting a trap. Katko v. Briney is a similar decision, especially since for children spicy food can be deadly.
There is this theory than mankind evolved laughing as a coping mechanism for miserable Situations. Hearing rslash unable to contain his laughter as he reads a story where a 3rd grader gets wacked iin the face and looses 2 teeth makes me think there's something true about that theory.
I bet that lunch thief child learned a lesson! I would laugh in her face and tell her to call the cops. Sue HER for discrimination and theft. Your not a “mother”…oh well
Final story: Do you want to end up as Will Smith and Jada?. OP, you need to run. And yes,most likely, she already break up with you emotionally, and very likely is waiting for the best moment to do OR searching a replacement to jump ship before breaking up. Also, DUDE SHE HIT YOU,YOU NEED TO RUN. Please,PLEASE OP, this is NOT a normal relationship, that's just abuse
If you going to spike food you have to be able to eat it. This one reddit pose both use spice getting away with it because he ate it in front of the boss after being accused and others used laxatives saying his doctor prescribed it to be in food.
Story 4: An update from OP: "some answers to the most popular questions People, read the TLDR section. The saddest part for me personally is that I accidentally hurt the child. I don't give a damn that I was caught, for God's sake. I had no intention to do that and then just run away. Many of you think I should act like another 9-year-old brat who played a prank and tried to cover it up. A little update - the situation is settled. We are not moving away. The landlord said that all of that was just a "play" to calm down the mother. He admitted that he panicked upon hearing her screams and said something he never intended to do. Yes, the boy did something wrong. Yes, the mother was wrong too. But please don't overlook the part where I was away for an HOUR, and during that time, the boy was in agony, screaming without giving ANY explanation to anyone about what was going on. The moment I arrived and explained what was happening, everyone was freaked out. At that moment, the boy had almost no strength left to scream anymore, and yet it was awful to hear. I can't imagine how it was in the beginning. And I argued with my friends for being mad at me. Not with the mother or the boy."
For the sandwich story OP wrote in the comments that he's not actually being kicked out. The landlord was freaked out and said something he never intended to do so the mother would calm down. So, everything is settled and all good.
5:54, no one deserves to receive threats over a fake joke article, I feel bad for o.p. , what actual morons are those people?, they need to lear what a joke is and take a chill pill
@@uselessinformation1988 It falls under the same issue as entrapment or booby traps or endangerment because it was intentional manipulation. OP intended to cause harm which is what makes it illegal.
@@uselessinformation1988 Because tampering with the intent to cause harm qualifies as reckless endangerment. Same reason I can't stick sharpened metal spikes on the other side of a privacy fence that impales a trespasser.
Although I agree that they should be able to do what they want to their food, not too long ago a teen died after consuming a chip from the one chip challenge. And in some cases, people will convulse or have extreme life threatening reactions to such extreme levels of spiciness. Doing it on purpose I think it's a bit much. Maybe something less but still affective
Last post makes me think the girlfriend wantes OP to break up with her so she could save face. Hitting him, asking "do you want to break up with me?" Arguing all the time, almost feels like her trying to force OP to break up so she can say ":( my boyfriend broke up with me im so sad now"
Story 4 - OP should have involved police and had them teaching the child a lesson on why you dont steal from others. And teaching the mother trying to pass the buck of bad parenting and putting their child at risk. That landlord is a douche as well and raises the question as to what relation he is to the mother. It also raises the question as to what lies she told the landlord. If I was OP I would be involving a lawyer over the landlord's action of asking them to leave.
Story 4: I don't have children, but let's say I did and I had to bring my kid to work. Obviously I wouldn't let stealing food slide, but let's say I didn't know. My kid goes to steal a sandwich only for it to be filled with hot sauce. I'm not going to get mad at the person whose sandwich was stolen. I'd obviously need to find out what was in the sandwich for safety and to judge whether or not my kid needs to go to the hospital. If it's as spicy as that one chip challenge that was taken off shelves then yeah, I'd need to know. But as soon as I was done with ensuring their safety, I'd apologize, make the kid apologize, compensate them for the theft, and then have my kid do extra chores to "pay off" what was stolen after having a very serious conversation with them about theft and take them to get evaluated just to make sure it's not a mental issue. I can't believe the audacity of getting mad at OP when it was her who failed to keep her kid in check. Poor OP.
It's not a r/Tifu story, but I'm trying to find that one story about a Karen who had complications regarding her pregnancy and it required the doctors to do a forced delivery, but Karen refused saying "God will decide when I give birth" and the baby ended up dying because of her faith.. she also planned to have another one, which video was it in?
Punishment Spice: was there a story on Reddit that a boss daughter stole OP’s lunch that had peanuts in the white sauce and OP got fired, sued and life ruined cause of a lunch thief?
Story 4 pisses me off, mostly because I work retail. I hate it when the parents think their kids get a free pass when they screw up because "they're just a kid, they don't know any better." Okay, if they don't know any better, why are you allowing them to roam free without any supervision? By that logic, they need to be on a leash and muzzled when they go into an unfamiliar place. Hell, I have literal dogs that visit our store that are better behaved than these brats, and the parents want to sidestep responsibility. I hope OP gets justice, for himself and for his sandwich.
About that fake article, it reminds me of the story of the guy who posted the first "conspirousy" story on birds not existing and they are all government drones. Last I remember the guy made bogus reasons as to why this is the case as either a joke or an experiment to see what people did with it. Well, it spread like wildfires and now we have people who claim that birds were created by the government to spy on us lol.
4th story I hate to say it, but if OP was in the US, then OP was legally in the wrong. Booby-trapping your property is illegal. People have tried this exact stunt before and faced legal repercussions.
I had a similar thing to story 1 happen to me when I was in high school back in the 90's. During our auto mechanics class, this other kid started making mock karate moves at me while I was work on a car. He was across the shop from me, about 15 to 20 feet away. I had one of those big rubber mallets in my hands, so I made like I was swinging it at him. Well, of course the 3 pound black hunk of rubber detached from the wooden handle and flew through the air at the poor dude, nailing him square in his right brow bone! His brow almost instantly swelled up to damn near the size of a golf ball! The teacher caught wind of the commotion and asked what was going on. He pointed at me and yelled, "This guy fool around!" in that perfect Asian-English dialect, think Ken Jeong (Mr. Chow) from the Hangover. I felt so terrible, but the entire class was roaring in laughter. The poor dude had to be taken down the road to the hospital to be checked out, and he was otherwise okay. No fracture or concussion, thank goodness.
Bro in the last story. If you are or are not younger in age, this is a sign you need to break up. She shouldn't be laying her hands on you. It's not normal for someone to lay their hands on you. And if she has been wanting to break up she should stop stringing you along and actually do it. If she keeps up the guise that you are in a good relationship then it's time you do the actual breaking up. Hell ask a trusted adult for some advice because you need the support
The fourth story doesn't make any sense. That OP is being dragged through the mud. Why is it his fault that a woman takes her child to work? Let's him do God knows what and a heavy industry warehouse. And what's him steal food? Whatever this job is, whatever this business is needs to be investigated Because the fact That there is this large amount of negligence and child endangerments going on at this warehouse is insane.
US Laws and customs... Being ultra agressive, greedy, egoistical and an asshole , while attacking and suing anyone opposing you is the norm for Muricans in everything,; it's called "FREEDOM" or "the american dream"... From a european POV
Story 4: OP's mistake was putting a note on the food, thereby removing all plausible deniability. They should have just said they like spicy food and it's not their fault the kid stole it
Oh hell no, story 4 is the fault of the mother and the child, NOBODY else. There is no excuse for thievery even if it is a child doing so. The woman obviously is a terrible parent if she doesn't bother to pay attention to a child while in a machinery environment which inherently has many more hazards than a spicy sandwich, and didn't bother to teach them stealing is wrong, hell I woulda got my ass beat for that but people these days are snowflakes. If the mother belongs to an agency or some such, I would recommend reporting to them that she chose to bring her unsupervised 9 y/o child to a workplace and let them do whatever they wanted which should be grounds for termination. Then sue both the mother and the landlord as others commented. All in all, I'd say this is likely a very valuable lesson for the child, one he likely will not forget anytime soon.
@@joeschmo622 not the OP did. CPS should have been involved instead due the heavy machinery. Never admit to food tampering. It's either 'I like it that way' or 'crap, I accidently grabbed my SO's lunch'
Story 3: I honestly think there is a difference between “woke” and being accepting of others. Woke people tend to be self righteous and have a superiority complex, whereas people who are genuinely accepting are just like everyone else. I think OP actually touched on his wife’s real issue with her friend coming out. Depending on the friend, it could have been an issue. My best example is my friend’s mother. Married for 20 years to my friend’s step-father and she came out when their daughter, my friend’s half sister, went to college. My friend was PISSED. Her stepdad raised her and he was her dad. When her mom came out it destroyed him. My friend took YEARS to forgive her mom because of the pain she caused. I think I would have the same problem with a friend if they came out much later and hurt a partner. There is nothing wrong with being a different sexuality, there is something wrong with hiding away your feelings of sexual confusion only to act like everyone should celebrate that you are no longer sexually attracted to your partner. A LOT of the people who were/are married to people who come out later in life end up with trust issues. Coming out like that feels like the relationship was a lie. My friend’s mom has had several lesbian relationships, whereas her stepdad has not been on a single date as far as I know. OPs wife might feel a faint similar betrayal that her friend hid this aspect of themself from her. Personally I have never cared when a friend comes out, I don’t make friends based on that criteria.
The problem with the word “woke” is that there’s no one accepted definition. Originally it just meant “aware of cultural injustices”, as in like ‘you’ve woken up and can see finally what going wrong’ kind of way. But now the “anti-woke” crowd just use the word to label people who disagree with them. And that disagreement happens to be about things like social injustices and basic human rights and decency. So if OP’s definition of “I don’t hate gay people” is what he considers “woke”, unfortunately that’s perfectly valid at this time because of how the word has lost basically all nuance and meaning…
Before reading this, I wrote something similar. As anti "anti-woke" I don't give s*** about who you sleep with as long as you don't expect me to celebrate it. Live your life however you want and I'll live mine.
Also, your example specifically is less about whether or not one is “woke”, but an interpersonal problem between a few people. And it’s perfectly valid to feel betrayed like that when your partner comes out; they did technically lie to you, but they were also maybe lying to themselves for decades as well. (Also sexuality can be fluid to a degree too.) But also it’s not like the relationship never was. You can love someone and also not feel physically attracted to them. Love is not all about [adult fun time]. It’s about trust and caring and being supportive, and if the relationship exploded like that between them when she came out, it maybe wasn’t the most supportive relationship for a while. And if it happened literally the moment the child left for college, it might have been on its last legs a while ago and they were just “staying together for the kids” (which in and of itself is a whole can of worms…). But regardless, it has little to do with being “woke” unless your friend started getting red pilled and started to hate all the usual far-right targets as a result, which is what it sounded like was happening to OP’s partner.
@@Tustin2121 You fully misunderstood my example. Beside the point that your perimeters for “woke” is that it is undefined, my point is that many people who declare themselves woke tend to be people who are self righteous about causes. In the case of my friend’s mother, a woke person would applaud her “bravery” in coming out and celebrate it, whereas, and I base this on my own experience, most people would be accepting of her lifestyle but feel more pity for the husband than joy over her reveal. My point of the story in my comment was to point out that OP’s wife might be feeling conflicted over her friend “hiding” a part of themself from her and is feeling negatively but unable to confront the friend over coming out later in life. I don’t know these people and the closest experience I have with this kind of later in life coming out of the closet is my friend’s mother. I know my personal feelings were sympathy for the father and not really caring my friend’s mom was a lesbian. Some people do take it personally when a person they feel close to does not share something as personal as sexuality with them, so that was my conjecture for OP‘a wife, not a blanket statement for all anti-woke people.
@@Tustin2121Actually the meaning of woke is well known and really they're the ones who actively go after people who disagree with their opinions. They scream when people speak. They virtue signal. Rather than accept all races as equal humans they discriminate against white people. Rather than accept people regardless of sexual orientation they loudly insist everyone coverthemselves with rainbows and compliment people enthusiastically for being LGBT and slam anyone else for being "heteronormative". And if you don't they report you to your employer as phobic. They require people to pretend reality isn't real. They teach graphic sex to young children and call people phobic for trying to stop it. Woke people are not the ones accepting all groups. They set an agenda and force it on the world.
My son (3yo) wouldn't stop stealing people's drinks. Well, he got ahold of a spit can. That fixed him. He can't drink out of a can and doesn't chew or smoke 30 years later.
OP in lunch story should have said, "Oh shit, that a$$hole! My friend Bob gave me this hot sauce and said I'd really like it. I put it on this sandwich then at the last minute I decided to eat out. He's a trickster and I bet thought he'd 'get me' by giving me super-spicy sauce he knew I couldn't eat. Looks like he got your kid instead of me, I'm so sorry abou that. I'm going to tear that f!!ker a new one the next time I talk to him." ("Bob" of course doesn't exist.)
Story 1: When are bosses going to realize that hazing affects the innocent person almost 100% of the time. And for people that don't know what hazing is it's when a new hire is bullied by the older employees or the boss it's a term mainly used in the military butt it definitely applies here😂😂
Food thieves will always suffer should they partake of my food. My chili contains Carolina Reaper, Ghost Pepper, Scorpion, Habanero, and Jalapeño peppers (with seeds) and hot sauce. In other words, don’t eat if you suffer from stomach issues. Heck, I put Scorpion hot sauce on my bacon and egg sandwich. The only way OP would be wrong was if they put a non edible chemical or something. (Technically grasshoppers can be eaten so toss a couple dead ones in your pudding and the thief will never touch your dessert again)
Story 4: So why isn't anyone in that situation taking note of the fact that not only did that mother bring her child into a workshop space full of machinery, tools, sharp and or hot objects, but she left them completely unsupervised to the degree that said child was able to roam free and steal food from staff members? That child could have gotten into so much worse trouble than a spicy sandwich. They could have instead lost fingers or a limb to machinery. A legal nightmare in the making for the actual workshop in allowing the child to be brought in. Pure stupidity by the mother at best, willful negligence and child endangerment at the worst. Yikes!
If i was OP i'd be reporting to OSHA(or local equiverlent)
_That's_ the bigger question no one is asking: what parent is irresponsible enough to bring a child to their workplace where even trained adults run the risk of being injured?
@@danielbrant6740 - You must be new here to be asking a rhetorical question like that.
@@Ryanthusar But it is a legitimate kind of question, that should be ask way more often.
My thoughts precisely
Last story - r/Slash is right. I was dating a girl and we got into an argument once. Not a "want to pull a gun" argument, but a small tiff. In out of the blue she slapped me across the face, HARD. Her nails actually cut my cheek open. I just looked at her, stunned. She keep going off about how she was sick of me leaving my clothes EVERYWHERE. For context, I had put my jacket on a chair because it had been raining outside and it needed to dry before I hung it up.
I just smiled, said no problem, then proceeded to pack what few things I had there into my backpack and left. She yelled, cried, begged for me to stay, she was SSOOOOORRRRYYYY!!! I just said, "what would you have done if I slapped you like that, have me arrested, right?" She just stood there in silence as I walked out the door. Never saw her again.
Good. I’m glad you didn’t stay.
Her nails cut your cheek open? Goddamn. How did she do that?
@@truthseeker9249 with her nails.
@@EclipseClemens 😑😑😑😑I mean how could her nails be that sharp.
@@truthseeker9249it doesn’t even take that long nails to scratch people, I’ve scratched people with my small nails lol
Last story, rslash is right, if your partner (male or female it doesn't matter) physically assaults you in anger then it is over, no second chances for that, you just leave immediately once it is safe to do so
nope you try to get them help not abandon them
@@jocelyndaoust3700Bro, put your own safety first. Mindsets lik that is what causes people to stay in abusive relationships.
@@jocelyndaoust3700absolutely not. You aren't obligated to "help" your abuser get TF out of here with that victim blaming bs
@@jocelyndaoust3700violence against your partner is worse than abandoning them.
@@boyboss3322I can recall on two hands the amount of domestic homicides happened just because of that idea. They have to go to anger management and YOU can't do that for them. They have to be forced to otherwise they won't get help.
Story 4: Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do to stop a food thief. Also, how was OP supposed to know that the thief was the child? Like, the child should've known better than to steal food
A thief is still a thief. The consequences just escalate with age and value of what you're stealing.
And the fact that they sided with the janitor simply because "she's a mother". Bro, not only they are in a way siding with a thief, they are sexist as well because they sided with the janitor because she's a mother/female.
Some of our parents don’t feed us and we get desperate. I wasn’t a food thief because I was sure I would get caught and punished severely but it made me incredibly quick to share food as soon as I was an adult.
@@alexacarrillo4339that may be true. But it was not the case here. The boy had food but preferred OP's
@@threecards333 I understand that. I am just pointing out the children should no better than steal food can at times be much more complicated than people think at times.
If my son stole someone’s food and had the same thing happen to him, I’d tell him that it served him right for taking stuff that doesn’t belong to him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I knew better by the age of five not to pull that kind of stunt. If I had done that at that kids age, I'd probably still be eating my meals standing up. My parents would also have apologized to OP, made me apologize to OP, and I would have gotten zero sympathy from them for any pain I might be suffering.
Story 4: sue the mother, it may seem like an escalation, but she is actively trying to ruin your lively hood for eating your own food.
Sue the landlord too, their negligence and siding with the wrong side at the cost of your occupancy shouldn’t go on abated, don’t stop until you own that building and then dismiss the naysayers who went against you.
@@ProjectNaturePrds OP is lucky the mom doesn't press charges. OP set up a trap to intentionally harm a food thief, not make himself a lunch (even wrote a note warning not to eat). When it comes to a courtroom, motives and intentions matter a great deal.
Yeah, admitting to spiking the food is really where the op screwed up.
@jesseelves959 He set up a food trap, yes, but who's to say that OP doesn't actually like spicy food. Just because it's a trap doesn't mean he's incapable of eating it. A court would gather evidence of Op liking or disliking spicy food before making him guilty but most likely the mother would be in trouble even though she is pressing charges because letting your child eat food and you don't know what's in it is child endangerment and letting them wander around unsupervised isn't a good look either.
@@QuayHollywood You forget OP left a note of warning, admitted in the post of his intent, and left to get lunch elsewhere. If someone could possibly eat the sandwich unharmed is irrelevant, it's the motives behind the sandwich that matter. Judges are generally intelligent individuals who look for intent behind the actions. OP admitted his intent was to cause discomfort (harm). Intentionally causing harm is a crime.
*personally I hope everyone walks away learning something:
-Don't steal food
-Children need supervision
-Setting traps have unintended consequences
Story 4: if they asked “why was your sandwich so spicy?” I’d just say “why the fuck was your crotch goblin eating my food?”
This. The OP admitting he 'spiked the sandwich' puts him in liability since this suggests he knew it was being pilfered & intended to cause harm. In America...that's legal seppuku. Your response would resolve the entire situation.
Yay honesty getting you f'd here. Poor OP.
Reaper pepper story: Teach your brat not to take things that dont belong to them.
9 years old us old enough to read a sign that says dont eat my food.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Also its not over yet. Depending on how much of the pepper sauce the kid ate.........lets just say his mouth isnt going to be the only thing burning once it digests........
Followed by what will be left behind in the toilet afterward. Knowing this, you can understand the mom's anger.
@@danielbrant6740while her anger can be "understandable", she let her child roam around freely and that's dangerous
@@danielbrant6740Her anger should be at her brat of a kid. OP did nothing wrong here. Idk how they all convinced the simp of a landlord to kick out OP and his business partner, but if this causes the lease to be broken, then there may as well be some financial compensation from the landlord and the stupid woman as well.
@@danielbrant6740 That's called poetic justice. Don't take things that don't belong to you. It's not an isolated incident . He has taken Ops food before.
He is well within his right to put whatever he wants on his sandwich.
It even says in the story that the kid bypassed the lunches his mom made for him, meaning he had his own food.
Poetic justice.
The thought of the food thief crying in the toilet with a wicked case of firehole brings me some comfort. Looking forward to a homemade sandwich for your lunch break, only to find some or all of it eaten, is soul crushing
Story 4: First off the mom needs to keep a better eye on her kid and teach him not to steal, so bad mom. Second OP left a note warning that it was hot and not to eat it, so the kid is to dumb to read I guess. Third it wasn't poison but an actual condiment that most people don't like, what if the kid had an allergy would it be OP's fault if the kid had an allergic reaction from stealing food?
If a kid can't read a CAUTION: HOT!!! message on a sandwich, then it's his fault for glossing over it.
All the blame falls onto the mother and son in this case. The OP really should be filing lawsuits in regards to this situation for his landlord breaking the lease and for the monetary damage the woman and her brat caused. Also, the landlord needs to put a fridge in each space. No more of this shared fridge bs.
@@guitarbass22if im op I would do what you said....
Note: Caution! Hot!
Child: That won't stop me because I can't read!
@@thetruth1816 Someone posted in a comment that apparently OP didn’t lose their space and everything seems to maybe be moved on from? Idk. Cba finding the update in the sea of Reddit, and since RSlash doesn’t post story links, I guess we’ll never know. 🤷♂️
Story 2: Always remember to fully read the article. Funny how people don't do that and jump to conclusions
What's even funnier is. Veronica Mars was canceled for real, only three years after this story happened.
Fr did you hear the article about Disney officially breaking up Minnie and Mickey mouse like a couple weeks ago? Turns out it was just a misunderstanding because disney released comic art of Disney characters as marvel characters for a what if line of merchandise, and Mickey and Daisy were dressed as a superhero couple. I think antman and wasp?
We here at R Slash studios do not condone child violence, but we do find it hilarious.
Crap.. I was gonna quote a thing but there's no way I can do it without sounding like something much worse.
By the way, I only hit you because of my pent up aggression against your father. *flies away*
Team four star reference...
Goodness. I hope that OP from the fifth story understands how unbelievably lucky she got. Intentional or unintentional. She sent a sexually explicit photo to a young new hire in her workplace. That could have gone so wrong for her.
The fourth story OP made an extra spicy sandwich that a lunch thief ate.
@@ProjectNaturePrdsThank you.
Why do you think she was still laying awake in a panic 4 years later. She Knows.
@@Robynhoodlum That's an excellent point. I figured it was embarrassment but you're probably right.
Idk man, how do you not notice, and as my gf pointed out to me, 3 whole days? I'm sure she texted and said something to her husband how did she not,NOT notice the ass pic wasn't there.
Men, if a woman hits you, treat it the same as a man hitting your sister or mother. Call the cops and dont let them get away with their abuse. If a person is willing to hit another person when they were in no danger, that is a crime, reguardless of the sex of the person.
If they hit you, THEY DO NOT LOVE YOU!
9 years old is plenty old enough to know not to take others stuff.
And be able to read a note for warning of said consequences of eating someone else’s food
Story 2 happened to one of my classmates as well. One winter, it was snowing, so the schools were closed for about 2 days. One of my classmates, C, took a screenshot of an article that said "Schools closed on Tuesday", simply replaced the Tuesday with Wednesday, and then sent it on our class group chat to prank us. Too bad for him, one of our other classmates shared it with some of her friends before she realized it was fake, and the screenshoot got shared all over our relatively small city. It got to the point where the mayor had to release an official statement online to say that, no, schools were open on Wednesday, and that the culprit was being "investigated". We teased C for a long time after that, calling him a fugitive and whatnot.
The mother of the food thief child should blame herself for letting her child be a food thief instead of the person whose food was being stolen and eventually set up a trap to catch the thief. Yes, the child was harmed in the incident, but it wasn't like he was poisoned; otherwise, OP would be guilty of a much worse crime.
Pepper Story: This made me think of another food thief story where the thief went into anaphylactic shock after consuming Thai peanut sauce. Turns out the food thief was the daughter of OP's boss. Though proven the harm wasn't intentional, I think OP still had to get a lawyer involved to protect themselves (And privately find a new job).
Just ... leave everyone's crap alone! We're taught at a VERY young age that it's not cool to take what's not ours!
I'm just pissed OP never got their justice.
For the food thief story: there is no way in heck that OP is in the wrong. The brat was STEALING FOOD. How tf is that “trivial?” The kid didn’t have permission to eat the food, he ate the food anyways, and somehow it’s OP’s fault?!?! I love the comeback here, because it’s true: WHAT IF the OP just liked spicy food?!?! Why would that be so bad? This is 1000% on the kid and his enabling mother here, and the landlord telling them to move out should go against their lease agreement. Threaten to call the cops? Go ahead. Tell them we won’t say a word until our lawyer arrives. This whole situation is absolutely insane, as is the situation with most food thieves…the best way to not get a mouthful of hot sauce or a pepper that makes your whole body feel like it’s on fire is just to NOT STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S FOOD. 🙄🙄🙄
Except legally they could get in trouble because you can’t trap food like that. The note and the fact they went out to eat shows the intent to harm the food thief. If they had stayed until the thief ate the trapped food then they couldn’t prove intent. The note would just be a warning letting the thief know it’s hot and they shouldn’t eat it.
Now morally I agree op shouldn’t get in trouble but that’s not how the legal system works. Especially if you get the case in front of a jury and the prosecutor leans heavily on the fact that it was “just a kid.”
@@scuba535 It by definition is NOT a trap if there is sufficient warning, and there obviously was. And it's not a harmful substance that's in the sandwich, it's something safe to be consumed by most humans(besides those with allergies and stomach ulcers, but that is the case for a lot of foods), so there can be no intent to harm the food thief, as the so called 'trap' simply can not harm the food thief. It can only work to deter them either by warning or undesirable taste, but it could also have easily been seen as something desirable by the thief, as some people simply love spicy food. If there is intent to harm, it would at most be intent to harm the taste buds of the thief, but even that can't really be proven as it's simply a matter of preference at the end of the day.
To say that there was intent to harm the thief in this case, would be similar to saying that there is intent to harm a thief if you set up a 5 meter high wall around your property. The warning is obvious, the wall is there as a deterrent, if a thief climbs the wall and falls down breaking his bones, does that mean that just by building such a wall around my property, i set up a trap for a would be thief to climb and fall to get harmed in the eyes of law? That would be beyond ridiculous...
@@scuba535 Now IANAL, but I believe that the prosecution would be hard pressed proving that this food was a “trap,” as you put it. So the OP put something with hot sauce in the fridge and then went out to eat. Big deal. Maybe they just decided randomly to go out to eat that day. Plausible deniability is easy to use to disprove a lot of theories, at least according to the lawyer channels I’ve seen on this platform. The intent of having the spicy sandwich there was for it to be eaten, possibly by the OP, hence the warning note; the fact that it wasn’t just shows the thief’s intent of eating the OP’s food. This reminds me of another story where the food thief was halal due to their religion, and OP brought in a pork sandwich to have for lunch on that day. Now, is it that OP’s fault for bringing in a pork sandwich that they had intentions of eating and it got stolen? Of course not! And what if these food thieves have food allergies to something commonly used in every day lunches? Is it the victims’ faults for bringing foods with those allergens when they expected to eat them themselves????? Regardless, I see absolutely 0 reason why the landlord is kicking OP out. That seems way over the top and insane for this kind of issue. The OP did nothing wrong. Why is that not easy to see? The OP was the victim of a food thief, and one of the things they brought for lunch was stolen that had drastic consequences for the thief. The only way to prove intent on the OP’s part is your argument of “but they went out to lunch,” to which can be argued back, “So? Is that suddenly a crime?” How many times have we brought a lunch to work and then decided to go out instead? Sometimes people change their minds, and that’s not a bad thing.
Also, put damn refrigerators in the private workspaces, or alternatively give tenants the right to purchase their own for their workspace and take it with them when they leave. That’ll solve this whole issue right here with no more insanity.
@@scuba535 Tricking somebody to eat spicy food without them knowing is assault! But OP literally added a warning message to the sandwiches. Making him NOT liable!
Meaning the mother of the thief is 100$ liable for any damages done, to goods AND to the child! The mother recklessly left the undiciplined child unsupervised in a WORKSHOP area, where ignoring warning labels can literally KILL you!
Child protective services should be called, to remove the child from that sorrunding and his terrible mother!
Fourth story: That's less TIFU and more Entitled Parents, Kids and People, the mother, the thieving kid, the landlord and whoever else sided with the entitled mother and her thieving kid.
Sounds like rage bait
Food thieves deserve no sympathy or mercy.
If the kid had, say, a peanut allergy, and OP had peanut in every single one of his sandwiches, would OP be at fault if the kid went into anaphylatic shock? Of course not, so why is he at fault here?
If anything, the cleaner should've been punished for not supervising her own kid. This is messed up.
I think you mean "why does he NOT get a pass here"
The difference between your example and this case is intent. If OP put peanuts in their sandwich because they like peanuts and someone with a peanut allergy ate it, it wouldn't be their fault. OP admitted to trapping the sandwich, so they're pretty much screwed legally.
@@scottbecker4367 Mmm, nope. It's on the thief for eating something without confirming it's peanut-free. Or, you know, the thief could just... not steal other people's food.
@@wmdkitty both are wrong. It's not a this or that issue. Don't think so binary.
@@scottbecker4367Nope. This is a misnomer. If it was spiked with something toxic or poisonous that the OP couldn't eat then yes, he would be in trouble legally. But since it was just a condiment that is completely edible, even if he admitted it was a trap, he can just say 'well, I like spicy food, and it SAYS it was spicy'.
Story 4: at my old job, someone kept stealing lunches. We were a group of about 12 women from 20’s to 60’s, and 4 men. 2 of the men had very strict diets due to (1) an organ transplant, and (2) diabetes. The other ladies often brought in food to share, potluck style. But if there was a packed lunch in the fridge, it would often go missing. Mine seemed to disappear quite often. So, I’d been taking asian cooking lessons, and made a fiery Thai curry. This was many years ago when ethnic foods weren’t commonplace.
I went in to get lunch, and saw mine was gone. My bag was there, but the curry container was gone. I looked everywhere, to no avail. Around 4, one of my co-workers (our dock loader) ran to the bathroom and locked the door. When he came out, his eyes were red and watery. He was moaning about “it must be food poisoning”. But he never said what it was. I followed that up with some incendiary chili, which caused the same reaction.
Several of us who’d had our lunches kyped started making innocuous looking lunches. Things like PB&J, tuna sandwiches, etc. but adding a ‘pocket’ of extremely spicy hot sauce or hot peppers. After about 2 weeks, the lunches stopped being stolen. Then, the boss, who’d also had lunches stolen, put a time clock on the break room door. This was genius, because you had to clock out for lunch or break times. Everyone had their own code, so we’d know who clocked in and out, and could check to make sure lunches were still in the fridge.
Bonus: dock loader thief quit and I got a call asking for a reference. I said he was a great worker, he was, but to keep your lunches either loaded with hot sauce and peppers, or put a locked door and time lock by the lunch room. He did get the job, but I never heard if he’d learned his lesson!
Cleaner should have taught her brat not to steal other people's food wtf
For the Carolina Reaper sauce story, usually the "using capsacin to catch lunch thief" stories ends up in r/ProRevenge, but this time the capsacin sandwich hit a child of an entitled mother.
Honestly, I think OP is NTA since he just assumed the thief is an adult (like those stories read in past r/ProRevenge), and while Carolina Reaper sauce is super hot, it doesn't kill or do harm to people (unless the one consuming it is allergic to it, or have some sort of mouth infection/inflammation already).
And, even the "lunch thief" is just a 9 year-old kid, it's just not right to steal other's lunch. Even worse, his mother encouraging this stealing behaviour is really toxic. She escalating the situation makes me think that she wants to stir up the muddy water to avoid punishment and blame OP. She is making such a bad example for her kid.
You're wrong about capsaicin not being able to kill. Mace/pepper spray can cause asphyxiation due to inflammation and it only takes about 12-13 grams of capsaicin to kill a 150 lb person. The vast amount of knowledge available at your fingertips is insane, I suggest you learn to use it a bit more.
12 grams of capsaicin is like 300 or more of the spiciest pepper ever bred. You essentially just proved yourself wrong since you just showed there is no practical way to kill someone this way. The sandwich would have to be over 4 inches tall to contain that much ROFL. The vast amount of knowledge available at your fingertips is insane, I suggest you learn to use it a bit more@@kingimura2430
@@kingimura2430the amount mentioned in the video is about two grams of peppers, not capsicum. It's safe to say that amount has an infinitesimal chance of harming anyone unless they were highly allergic.
@@kingimura2430 You will also die if you ingest 100g of salt, so what? You actually have a great chance to die even if you ingest just 50g depending on how hydrated you are. And well, if you can ingest 13g of capsaicin, it would be pretty much on purpose. You would otherwise spit it out of your mouth after starting to chew, we have taste buds for a reason. Just like how you would spit it out of your mouth if some sandwich was laced with deadly amount of salt in it or somethin. No normal human would keep on eating it after a bite and giving it a chew...
OP's didn't F up in the sandwich story by feeding spicy food to a child, OP F'd up when he admitted to it. He should have just said he was in the mood for spicy sandwiches and didn't think anyone would touch his food. Then OP could have turned it around and asked the mom why she allowed her child to take others food. When she denied knowing about it OP could have asked why her child was unsupervised. Then all the blame would be where it's supposed to be, with the mom.
I think the mess up was OP not knowing that the food thief was a child. I think OP feels guilty about it.
The titular story reminds me of one where somebody's lactose intolerant roommate was stealing food clearly labeled in the fridge, and so they used some kind of unnoticable dairy ingredient to expose them.
Today i effed up by listening to rslash within ear shot of my kids, and now they know the tooth fairy isn't real.
Edit: after a solid 45 minutes of very awkward silence my daughter (10) looks at me and says i knew the tooth fairy was you. $17.76 dad.....(referring to 2 years ago when she lost a tooth on july 3rd and woke up to that amount the next day). So i smirked and said you got me.
Oh crap! At least they can still believe in Santa. 😂
@@tdavenport720what are you implying about Santa exactly
no rslash is just a tooth fairy denier
I've never understood why parents will let their kids believe in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus, but will turn around and tell those same kids "don't lie".
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TikToks: If a fight with my partner included "hitting me, screaming at me, calling me names, then slamming the door," that would be the very last time I ever saw them. Once, my ex put his fist through the wall, right next to me. I left immediately and never looked back. It could just have easily been my face he smashed. Line drawn at violence. Period.
punishment spice: Sounds like the cleaner is an EM (Entitled Mother) and her kid, is allowed to do whatever he wants and she won't discipline him - at least not in the case of "Oh hey free unattended food!" and turning the kid into an EK (Entitled Kid).
Story number four: I've had my lunch stolen at work at previous jobs before. I've also read many stories about food thieves on reddit. OP was just doing what they had to do to weed out the thief. How on Earth was he supposed to know that it was a child? Obviously, the kid isn't learning boundaries, that he shouldn't take things that isn't his and had no understanding that consequences for his behavior exist. I think it's absolutely insane that OP is being treated like the villain here when he just made spicy food for himself.
The fact that he had to put a note on his own food that it was spicy and not to eat it, was clearly indicating there was a food theft problem. I still can't understand how this backfired. The landlord siding with the mother thus negatively reinforcing her bad parenting as well as the kid's bad behavior is just mind-boggling to me.
I know this might be stretching it, but better the kid learn now not to take things that don't belong to him than continue the thievery well into adulthood. Consequences only become more severe with time and age.
The moment she hit you, it was over. Run, don't walk away
Lunch thief story: The major mistake OP made here was the note, along with having lunch out so it looks like a intentional trap which people are probably using as evidence that harming the lunch thief who turned out to be a child was intentional. What OP should have done, was to make something that they could eat that was spicy and have lunch as usual. So when the chaos happened OP could prove that hey that was their regular lunch, they had no idea the kid was going to eat it. As I recall another OP experiencing a lunch thief did something like this, and that's how they avoided trouble since they proved they were going to eat it as normal. Not sure if this will teach the kid honestly not to steal, or just that Mommy will fly to their defense and the little shit can do what they want cause Mommy will protect them. Hopefully they learn, and don't turn out to be an entitled little shit.
Imagine being arrested for liking a bit of hot sauce on your sandwich because some kid wanted to steal to not eat healthy
1. He was never arrested.
2. What consequences he does end up facing are for admitting doing it willfully, never admit to that.
Story 1: I don't blame the mom for being pissed here. Their kid got assaulted, but it's not like OP did it on purpose and shouldn't have wanted to press charges. But hey, at least their dad was chill about it.
The dad being so chill about is actually what pisses me off the most.
edit: nvm. I'm a dumbass. was thinking of the sandwich story.
@@survivedandthrivingI'm gonna comment on the radio bit. I use radios on our job sites often (logging) because the area is usually too vast to really speak to each other, not to mention loud sounds and such. While I'm not intimately familiar with them, I do know that the antennas were super fragile. Lots of the ones we were using were also broken and we had to be careful not to drop them or otherwise damage them.
I would be more surprised if OPs antenna wasn't broken after how much ours were. I'd blame whoever got him equipped for not explaining the radio thoroughly, and OP for doing that even as a joke. He should've just done it with his hands empty like the kid did.
It's not assault. Assault requires intent
@@wingracer1614THANK YOU. Everyone gets battery and assault confused. Assault is the INTENT, whereas battery is the PHYSICAL ACT. Even then, battery isn't even applicable in this story.
Veronica Mars: OP, you have the defense of the bizarre statements. You could claim "I wasn't actually trying to stage a hoax, I threw in those statements at the end to clue the reader in that it was a joke by the end of it. When my roommate saw them, he figured out that it was fake. It's not my fault these people cannot read the whole thing through
Story 4: As someone who eat spicy food in my everyday life and someone who born in country that does not normalise food thief, my mind straight away "what the fuck happen in west or usa? “
Do that in my country, everyone will tease, mock and laugh at your suffering expense before calling for help
1st story: If charges were filed against OP I would go with 'felony stupid'. I kind of think any radio antenna would snap off doing that, not just defective ones.
Story 4: unfortunately, intentionally "trapping" your food for thieves can be considered assault in some places. Now if not for the note, OP could argue that's just how HE likes to eat them (I ALWAYS add hot sauce to my food), but since he added the sauce, left a note AND left to eat elsewhere, he would very likely be punished as it was his intent to catch (police and courts COULD argue "harm) the thief, child or not. It's stupid but does happen. A former coworker got fired because they did similar.
It's matters what you put on the note "this is hot to punish a thief" vs "hey, I made my food extra hot today because I needed some spice in my life". If you know your food is sometimes taken, a warning like the 2nd is actually smart. Technically, If you have a shared fridge environment, having a warning card when you put something that is commonly allergenic (like pepper or peanuts, which can both be anaphylaxis reactions) is smart. Thief or not, it allows people with allergies to keep their food seperate
FINALLY! Someone who understands the law. Thank you!
@@TheWeakMindedin this case the intent to harm the food thief is proven by the fact they went to eat somewhere else leaving the trapped food for the thief. If they had stayed just like all the other days until the thief stole the food you couldn’t prove intent as easily.
@@scuba535How does that prove anything? Dude cant change his mind about what he wants to eat that day? Some brain dead people really trying to defend a shit parent and her thief child.
Unfortunately?
I dislike food thieves too, but I think society should take the stance that booby trapping your food to punish a food thief is wrong.
At least it was just hot peppers and not laxatives.
Food thief got thaught a valuable life lesson.
I doubt his mother will make sure that lesson sticks
Food thief stories are a dime a dozen on Reddit, and I’m at a 99.99% rate on believing that the food thieves were the ones in the wrong every single time (there may be a small margin of error, but you don’t mess with someone’s food. It’s sacred). And having had food/drink stolen from MY lunch/snack before out of the fridge at work, I have 0 sympathy.
@@guitarbass22same here!
I see no reason why what OP did was unacceptable. Since when do people have to cater to the flavoring preferences of the people who steal their food? There are people who would eat that much hot sauce and like it. And yes, that's a bit of a harsh lesson for the kid, but the kid wasn't actually harmed so...
@@Avalikiathe only thing op did that was wrong was never intending to eat the trapped food. They went out to eat after intentionally spiking the food with a super hot sauce.
Hot sauce: rslash, even in the US, you cannot intentionally plan to cause someone harm by setting a trap. Katko v. Briney is a similar decision, especially since for children spicy food can be deadly.
Honestly how could the mother not notice her healthy food wasn't being eaten?
Kid might have been throwing it away and claimed to have eaten it.
Never stay with someone who hits you. Man or woman. Odds are, it's only going to get worse.
I seem to recall there was an update to the food thief story which the landlord is NOT kicking them out.
Being a kid that steel somones food is irrelivent cos it could of been any person. The kid basically was playing a roll of a “Kid Food Thief”
The kid had no business stealing. The mother is raising an entitled thief.
Sandwich thief.
1. OP warned them.
2. OP didn’t ask them to eat it
3. OP is not responsible for other people’s actions.
There has to be some legal recourse for the sandwich guy. Losing your housing because you were stolen from?!?!
Story #2: As a STAR TREK fan, this just made me laugh!!🤣
Story 1: as a camp counselor. This makes me laugh and anxious at the same time
Story 2: OP didn't even care enough about their fake post to give the TV show a name 😂
I grow Carolina Reapers and holy shit, I love them. Biological warfare when I need to exact revenge 🤣
There is this theory than mankind evolved laughing as a coping mechanism for miserable Situations. Hearing rslash unable to contain his laughter as he reads a story where a 3rd grader gets wacked iin the face and looses 2 teeth makes me think there's something true about that theory.
I bet that lunch thief child learned a lesson! I would laugh in her face and tell her to call the cops. Sue HER for discrimination and theft. Your not a “mother”…oh well
10:25, also op had no idea it was child who was taking his sandwiches !
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Final story: Do you want to end up as Will Smith and Jada?. OP, you need to run. And yes,most likely, she already break up with you emotionally, and very likely is waiting for the best moment to do OR searching a replacement to jump ship before breaking up.
Also, DUDE SHE HIT YOU,YOU NEED TO RUN. Please,PLEASE OP, this is NOT a normal relationship, that's just abuse
The sammich story. Screw the kid. And this is TIFU with a little petty revenge.
STORY 1: The camp should have told OP about the antenna
Story 1: I think we can all guess why the walkie talkie antennae are attached tenuously at best 😂😂😂
If you going to spike food you have to be able to eat it. This one reddit pose both use spice getting away with it because he ate it in front of the boss after being accused and others used laxatives saying his doctor prescribed it to be in food.
Story 4: You didn’t f up today. They f-ed around and found out
Story 4:
An update from OP:
"some answers to the most popular questions
People, read the TLDR section. The saddest part for me personally is that I accidentally hurt the child. I don't give a damn that I was caught, for God's sake. I had no intention to do that and then just run away. Many of you think I should act like another 9-year-old brat who played a prank and tried to cover it up.
A little update - the situation is settled. We are not moving away. The landlord said that all of that was just a "play" to calm down the mother. He admitted that he panicked upon hearing her screams and said something he never intended to do.
Yes, the boy did something wrong. Yes, the mother was wrong too. But please don't overlook the part where I was away for an HOUR, and during that time, the boy was in agony, screaming without giving ANY explanation to anyone about what was going on. The moment I arrived and explained what was happening, everyone was freaked out. At that moment, the boy had almost no strength left to scream anymore, and yet it was awful to hear. I can't imagine how it was in the beginning. And I argued with my friends for being mad at me. Not with the mother or the boy."
OP sounds like a really good guy
For the sandwich story OP wrote in the comments that he's not actually being kicked out. The landlord was freaked out and said something he never intended to do so the mother would calm down. So, everything is settled and all good.
Story 2 is a good example of why you shouldn't believe everything on the internet without looking up several things backing it up 😅
Food thief story: Kiddo f'd around and found out. Too bad, so sad.
"Hey batter batter, swin-oh no"
5:54, no one deserves to receive threats over a fake joke article, I feel bad for o.p. , what actual morons are those people?, they need to lear what a joke is and take a chill pill
Spice is the BEST form of punishment.
The mom of the stealing kid is definately an entitled parent
Only issue with OP from story 4 is he fessed up to tampering with his food instead of saying nothing or, if accused, saying he likes spicy food.
The issue I have is OP can face legal consequences for protecting his own food. Who's side is the law on?
@@uselessinformation1988 It falls under the same issue as entrapment or booby traps or endangerment because it was intentional manipulation. OP intended to cause harm which is what makes it illegal.
@@in4theride75 But it's still the thief's fault. Why doesn't the law understand that?
@@uselessinformation1988 Because tampering with the intent to cause harm qualifies as reckless endangerment. Same reason I can't stick sharpened metal spikes on the other side of a privacy fence that impales a trespasser.
Although I agree that they should be able to do what they want to their food, not too long ago a teen died after consuming a chip from the one chip challenge. And in some cases, people will convulse or have extreme life threatening reactions to such extreme levels of spiciness. Doing it on purpose I think it's a bit much. Maybe something less but still affective
Last post makes me think the girlfriend wantes OP to break up with her so she could save face. Hitting him, asking "do you want to break up with me?" Arguing all the time, almost feels like her trying to force OP to break up so she can say ":( my boyfriend broke up with me im so sad now"
Doing some house cleaning while listening to rslash? What a perfect Saturday!
Story 1: No wonder the antenna broke.
Hold it by the radio and swing the antenna next time OP.
Last Story: She's abusing you because she wants you to break up with her so she can be the victim.
Story 4 - OP should have involved police and had them teaching the child a lesson on why you dont steal from others. And teaching the mother trying to pass the buck of bad parenting and putting their child at risk. That landlord is a douche as well and raises the question as to what relation he is to the mother. It also raises the question as to what lies she told the landlord. If I was OP I would be involving a lawyer over the landlord's action of asking them to leave.
Wouldn't OP had been arrested? Apparently, the law sides with food thieves for some unknown reason.
Story 4: I don't have children, but let's say I did and I had to bring my kid to work. Obviously I wouldn't let stealing food slide, but let's say I didn't know. My kid goes to steal a sandwich only for it to be filled with hot sauce. I'm not going to get mad at the person whose sandwich was stolen. I'd obviously need to find out what was in the sandwich for safety and to judge whether or not my kid needs to go to the hospital. If it's as spicy as that one chip challenge that was taken off shelves then yeah, I'd need to know. But as soon as I was done with ensuring their safety, I'd apologize, make the kid apologize, compensate them for the theft, and then have my kid do extra chores to "pay off" what was stolen after having a very serious conversation with them about theft and take them to get evaluated just to make sure it's not a mental issue. I can't believe the audacity of getting mad at OP when it was her who failed to keep her kid in check. Poor OP.
It's not a r/Tifu story, but I'm trying to find that one story about a Karen who had complications regarding her pregnancy and it required the doctors to do a forced delivery, but Karen refused saying "God will decide when I give birth" and the baby ended up dying because of her faith.. she also planned to have another one, which video was it in?
Rslash confusing 2016 with 2006 is hilarious
Punishment Spice: was there a story on Reddit that a boss daughter stole OP’s lunch that had peanuts in the white sauce and OP got fired, sued and life ruined cause of a lunch thief?
Story 4 pisses me off, mostly because I work retail. I hate it when the parents think their kids get a free pass when they screw up because "they're just a kid, they don't know any better."
Okay, if they don't know any better, why are you allowing them to roam free without any supervision? By that logic, they need to be on a leash and muzzled when they go into an unfamiliar place. Hell, I have literal dogs that visit our store that are better behaved than these brats, and the parents want to sidestep responsibility.
I hope OP gets justice, for himself and for his sandwich.
About that fake article, it reminds me of the story of the guy who posted the first "conspirousy" story on birds not existing and they are all government drones. Last I remember the guy made bogus reasons as to why this is the case as either a joke or an experiment to see what people did with it. Well, it spread like wildfires and now we have people who claim that birds were created by the government to spy on us lol.
4th story I hate to say it, but if OP was in the US, then OP was legally in the wrong. Booby-trapping your property is illegal. People have tried this exact stunt before and faced legal repercussions.
I've missed your laugh. It makes my day. Never edit those out.
I had a similar thing to story 1 happen to me when I was in high school back in the 90's. During our auto mechanics class, this other kid started making mock karate moves at me while I was work on a car. He was across the shop from me, about 15 to 20 feet away. I had one of those big rubber mallets in my hands, so I made like I was swinging it at him. Well, of course the 3 pound black hunk of rubber detached from the wooden handle and flew through the air at the poor dude, nailing him square in his right brow bone! His brow almost instantly swelled up to damn near the size of a golf ball! The teacher caught wind of the commotion and asked what was going on. He pointed at me and yelled, "This guy fool around!" in that perfect Asian-English dialect, think Ken Jeong (Mr. Chow) from the Hangover. I felt so terrible, but the entire class was roaring in laughter. The poor dude had to be taken down the road to the hospital to be checked out, and he was otherwise okay. No fracture or concussion, thank goodness.
1st Story - OP, that radio antenna was probably fine before *you* got ahold of it!
Bro in the last story. If you are or are not younger in age, this is a sign you need to break up. She shouldn't be laying her hands on you. It's not normal for someone to lay their hands on you. And if she has been wanting to break up she should stop stringing you along and actually do it. If she keeps up the guise that you are in a good relationship then it's time you do the actual breaking up. Hell ask a trusted adult for some advice because you need the support
The fourth story doesn't make any sense. That OP is being dragged through the mud. Why is it his fault that a woman takes her child to work? Let's him do God knows what and a heavy industry warehouse. And what's him steal food? Whatever this job is, whatever this business is needs to be investigated Because the fact That there is this large amount of negligence and child endangerments going on at this warehouse is insane.
Story 4: WTF do you mean the kid didn't get hurt? The Carolina reaper is MADE of pain
How come in all these food thief instances like 90% of them want to press charges? What the actual fuck?
Might be a pride thing. Someone dared to stop them, and now they must pay. It could also be them fishing for a lawsuit.
US Laws and customs...
Being ultra agressive, greedy, egoistical and an asshole , while attacking and suing anyone opposing you is the norm for Muricans in everything,; it's called "FREEDOM" or "the american dream"...
From a european POV
Story 4: OP's mistake was putting a note on the food, thereby removing all plausible deniability. They should have just said they like spicy food and it's not their fault the kid stole it
Story 4: I miss the days when parents actually held children accountable. I just…dont see the argument as to why Op got punished.
Ridiculous imo
Oh hell no, story 4 is the fault of the mother and the child, NOBODY else. There is no excuse for thievery even if it is a child doing so. The woman obviously is a terrible parent if she doesn't bother to pay attention to a child while in a machinery environment which inherently has many more hazards than a spicy sandwich, and didn't bother to teach them stealing is wrong, hell I woulda got my ass beat for that but people these days are snowflakes. If the mother belongs to an agency or some such, I would recommend reporting to them that she chose to bring her unsupervised 9 y/o child to a workplace and let them do whatever they wanted which should be grounds for termination. Then sue both the mother and the landlord as others commented. All in all, I'd say this is likely a very valuable lesson for the child, one he likely will not forget anytime soon.
Actually, there is one thing where OP SHOULD have known the food thief is a kid. The child sized bite marks should have been a clue
All the more reason to teach 'em a good lesson early, before that behavior's baked-in.
@@joeschmo622 not the OP did. CPS should have been involved instead due the heavy machinery. Never admit to food tampering. It's either 'I like it that way' or 'crap, I accidently grabbed my SO's lunch'
@@marjoriejohnston4905 Hm? The Opie *did* admit to spiking the food: "I explained that the sandwiches were mine, and I'd spiked them with hot sauce."
Story 3: I honestly think there is a difference between “woke” and being accepting of others. Woke people tend to be self righteous and have a superiority complex, whereas people who are genuinely accepting are just like everyone else. I think OP actually touched on his wife’s real issue with her friend coming out. Depending on the friend, it could have been an issue. My best example is my friend’s mother. Married for 20 years to my friend’s step-father and she came out when their daughter, my friend’s half sister, went to college. My friend was PISSED. Her stepdad raised her and he was her dad. When her mom came out it destroyed him. My friend took YEARS to forgive her mom because of the pain she caused. I think I would have the same problem with a friend if they came out much later and hurt a partner. There is nothing wrong with being a different sexuality, there is something wrong with hiding away your feelings of sexual confusion only to act like everyone should celebrate that you are no longer sexually attracted to your partner. A LOT of the people who were/are married to people who come out later in life end up with trust issues. Coming out like that feels like the relationship was a lie. My friend’s mom has had several lesbian relationships, whereas her stepdad has not been on a single date as far as I know. OPs wife might feel a faint similar betrayal that her friend hid this aspect of themself from her. Personally I have never cared when a friend comes out, I don’t make friends based on that criteria.
The problem with the word “woke” is that there’s no one accepted definition. Originally it just meant “aware of cultural injustices”, as in like ‘you’ve woken up and can see finally what going wrong’ kind of way. But now the “anti-woke” crowd just use the word to label people who disagree with them. And that disagreement happens to be about things like social injustices and basic human rights and decency. So if OP’s definition of “I don’t hate gay people” is what he considers “woke”, unfortunately that’s perfectly valid at this time because of how the word has lost basically all nuance and meaning…
Before reading this, I wrote something similar.
As anti "anti-woke" I don't give s*** about who you sleep with as long as you don't expect me to celebrate it.
Live your life however you want and I'll live mine.
Also, your example specifically is less about whether or not one is “woke”, but an interpersonal problem between a few people. And it’s perfectly valid to feel betrayed like that when your partner comes out; they did technically lie to you, but they were also maybe lying to themselves for decades as well. (Also sexuality can be fluid to a degree too.) But also it’s not like the relationship never was. You can love someone and also not feel physically attracted to them. Love is not all about [adult fun time]. It’s about trust and caring and being supportive, and if the relationship exploded like that between them when she came out, it maybe wasn’t the most supportive relationship for a while. And if it happened literally the moment the child left for college, it might have been on its last legs a while ago and they were just “staying together for the kids” (which in and of itself is a whole can of worms…).
But regardless, it has little to do with being “woke” unless your friend started getting red pilled and started to hate all the usual far-right targets as a result, which is what it sounded like was happening to OP’s partner.
@@Tustin2121 You fully misunderstood my example. Beside the point that your perimeters for “woke” is that it is undefined, my point is that many people who declare themselves woke tend to be people who are self righteous about causes. In the case of my friend’s mother, a woke person would applaud her “bravery” in coming out and celebrate it, whereas, and I base this on my own experience, most people would be accepting of her lifestyle but feel more pity for the husband than joy over her reveal. My point of the story in my comment was to point out that OP’s wife might be feeling conflicted over her friend “hiding” a part of themself from her and is feeling negatively but unable to confront the friend over coming out later in life. I don’t know these people and the closest experience I have with this kind of later in life coming out of the closet is my friend’s mother. I know my personal feelings were sympathy for the father and not really caring my friend’s mom was a lesbian. Some people do take it personally when a person they feel close to does not share something as personal as sexuality with them, so that was my conjecture for OP‘a wife, not a blanket statement for all anti-woke people.
@@Tustin2121Actually the meaning of woke is well known and really they're the ones who actively go after people who disagree with their opinions. They scream when people speak. They virtue signal. Rather than accept all races as equal humans they discriminate against white people. Rather than accept people regardless of sexual orientation they loudly insist everyone coverthemselves with rainbows and compliment people enthusiastically for being LGBT and slam anyone else for being "heteronormative". And if you don't they report you to your employer as phobic. They require people to pretend reality isn't real. They teach graphic sex to young children and call people phobic for trying to stop it. Woke people are not the ones accepting all groups. They set an agenda and force it on the world.
F to pay respect for Sandwich.
My son (3yo) wouldn't stop stealing people's drinks. Well, he got ahold of a spit can. That fixed him. He can't drink out of a can and doesn't chew or smoke 30 years later.
OP in lunch story should have said, "Oh shit, that a$$hole! My friend Bob gave me this hot sauce and said I'd really like it. I put it on this sandwich then at the last minute I decided to eat out. He's a trickster and I bet thought he'd 'get me' by giving me super-spicy sauce he knew I couldn't eat. Looks like he got your kid instead of me, I'm so sorry abou that. I'm going to tear that f!!ker a new one the next time I talk to him." ("Bob" of course doesn't exist.)
Story 1: When are bosses going to realize that hazing affects the innocent person almost 100% of the time. And for people that don't know what hazing is it's when a new hire is bullied by the older employees or the boss it's a term mainly used in the military butt it definitely applies here😂😂
I love whenever he laughs during a story heheh
Food thieves will always suffer should they partake of my food. My chili contains Carolina Reaper, Ghost Pepper, Scorpion, Habanero, and Jalapeño peppers (with seeds) and hot sauce. In other words, don’t eat if you suffer from stomach issues. Heck, I put Scorpion hot sauce on my bacon and egg sandwich. The only way OP would be wrong was if they put a non edible chemical or something. (Technically grasshoppers can be eaten so toss a couple dead ones in your pudding and the thief will never touch your dessert again)