Lunch Time

Since he’d started his new job three months ago, he’d packed his lunch every day. And every day someone took something out of it. Never the whole thing. Usually just the snacks he brought, though sometimes it was the meal. He’d seen those stories online about people taking revenge on their coworkers who did that. Laxatives? Hot sauce? That stuff was for amateurs.
He’d soon find out who was stealing his food when they dropped dead from the poison he put on the cookies that were now missing.

7 comments on “Lunch Time

  1. djmatticus's avatar djmatticus says:

    Oof. A lesson learned with some finality there. They won’t make that mistake again.

    it’s been a bit, because I stopped putting my food in the communal fridges, but my food used to go missing on occasion. The first time you write it off as an accident. The second time you wonder if it’s just because your food looks like someone else’s. And then? Well then you hope that it is because they are struggling more than you… But that hope never really assuaged my anger.

    • That story was the result of us talking about the Punisher having a red lantern ring while a coworker showed me one of those stories that people post online about putting laxatives in their food to teach the thief a lesson. I just kinda combined them.

      I’ve never had food taken from me at work, but at a previous job, I had someone take something from out of my locker. I don’t remember what it was anymore. I just remember being mad about it because whatever it was something I only paid a few bucks for. It wasn’t worth stealing.

  2. 1jaded1's avatar 1jaded1 says:

    That would send a memo out for sure, my dear Revis. Do not take anything from my lunch. This could be you, next.

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