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Milk
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Ok, on Monday there appeared in our fridge a note by a glass bottle of milk saying that it was the cleaner's milk. Fair enough.
Tuesday there was a new note asking if whoever it was could stop drinking it.
Today there is a note on the front door asking for a new bottle of milk to be bought. It wasn't me but there are only 6 of us in the flat and I can see there being a bad situation (ie the uni getting involved) if whoever it is doesn't replace the milk. Someone in or with access to our flat is quite light-fingered it seems. I don't know about everyone else but in addition to the milk, my butter, sausages and scourer have disappeared and my washing up liquid has been routinely used (my flat is a little hostile so we don't share essentials.) I have ended up hiding my washing up liquid. We don't have lockable cupboards like a lot of halls which is a problem as well.
Anyway, what should I do about the milk? I spoke to one of my flatmates and neither of us want to pay for something we didn't use and neither of us ever has milk unless we need it for cooking as we both drink fruit teas and don't have cereal.
I really hope they sort this out because I can forsee important people taking action. They're a bit overboard with some of the things around here.
Tuesday there was a new note asking if whoever it was could stop drinking it.
Today there is a note on the front door asking for a new bottle of milk to be bought. It wasn't me but there are only 6 of us in the flat and I can see there being a bad situation (ie the uni getting involved) if whoever it is doesn't replace the milk. Someone in or with access to our flat is quite light-fingered it seems. I don't know about everyone else but in addition to the milk, my butter, sausages and scourer have disappeared and my washing up liquid has been routinely used (my flat is a little hostile so we don't share essentials.) I have ended up hiding my washing up liquid. We don't have lockable cupboards like a lot of halls which is a problem as well.
Anyway, what should I do about the milk? I spoke to one of my flatmates and neither of us want to pay for something we didn't use and neither of us ever has milk unless we need it for cooking as we both drink fruit teas and don't have cereal.
I really hope they sort this out because I can forsee important people taking action. They're a bit overboard with some of the things around here.
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Just buy another one.
Secondly it's a bottle of milk. It's going to be what, 10p each if you all pay it.
I didn't even think about that. But that is weird. She should get her own fridge!
You could out of princible not replace it, or you could just fork out a few pence for an easy life. I know what I'd choose, but then if I knew who it was that was nicking it I'd go fucking mad.
I wish I knew where things kept disappearing to!
To be honest, I have no idea why she keeps her milk in our fridge. My only guess is because we're the first flat so she can make a cup of tea when she comes in in the morning.
I guess I'll have to wait and see what happens tomorrow before I go off to Tesco.
Well she's not there to make herself a cup of tea and watch Trisha, she's there to clean the fecking flat.
Nice trick to earn money. You buy a bottle of milk, put it in the fridge and say it's the cleaners. Then you drink it (it's yours anyway) and pretend you're the cleaner and that someone else did.
I could leave a note in your fridge saying that I'm the prime minister and the milk is mine, would you believe it just from a note?
No, I wouldn't believe it, because I don't think Gordon Brown is likely to be in my kitchen, hehe.
It looks like her handwriting from the brief example I saw of it in the Christmas card the flat got from her.
If the milk isn't replaced tomorrow, I'll attempt to talk to the flat (one of them refuses to talk to the other 5 of us though) and decide what to do.
Seriously, if you've not touched it, don't agree to replace it, and don't lose any sleep over what's going on with it. It's not your mess, it's not your problem.
actually i agree with this
FWIW I am one of those annoying people that happily uses other people's milk for cups of tea, so feel free to flame. Although I just expect other people to use mine, as well.
To me there's a few seperate issues here -
1. If someone in the flat is routinely nicking stuff, then that's a problem.
2. That the cleaner is using your fridge.
3. That the cleaner is claiming someone nicked her stuff that she left in your fridge without any permission, and is wanting it replaced.
They can all be dealt with or ignored, really.