One way to stop a co-worker from taking your lunch out of the refrigerator is to label the bag “stool sample,” as one joke has it. “Someone stole @whaleysh’s lunch. Sorry bud. In the future label it ‘stool sample’ like I used to and NO one will touch it. I promise” was cited on Twitter on January 11, 2012. “No one has stolen my lunch at work since I started labeling it ‘Stool Sample’” was cited on Twitter on May 16, 2016.
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Grant K
@GrantKenney
Someone stole @whaleysh’s lunch. Sorry bud. In the future label it “stool sample” like I used to and NO one will touch it. I promise.
11:16 AM - 11 Jan 2012
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Co-workers who mess with your food.
Spice_zing | Apr 19, 2012 12:29 PM
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Isolda Apr 20, 2012 08:40 AM
I have never understood why people think stealing food isn’t really stealing. I guess some people must be compulsive eaters and this is just a symptom. Otherwise, I don’t get it.
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I think simply labeling the food as something else might help in some cases. My mom worked in a lab and would slap biohazard stickers on paper bags containing tins of homemade cookies she didn’t want my dad to eat. Maybe if you just put your lunch in a brown paper bag and labeled it “stool sample—due at 5:50 p.m. today,” no one would go near it.
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iEatMaPoo
July 30, 2012
I would put my food in a brown bag and label it “stool sample”
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Knuckles
05-07-2013, 05:40 PM
label it “stool sample”.
Too high a probability he’ll confuse it with his actual stool sample, and ruin his last piece of Texas Toast.
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Im All Write
@imallwritecom
If you want to make sure coworkers dont steal your lunch, lable it “Stool Sample” before you put it in the fridge
11:05 AM - 18 Nov 2015
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Kent Graham
@KentWGraham
No one has stolen my lunch at work since I started labeling it “Stool Sample.”
2:57 PM - 16 May 2016
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High Grade °
@ChrissNdungu
No one has stolen my lunch at
work since I started labeling it
“Stool Sample.”
~~who does that😂😂😂
11:45 PM - 23 May 2016
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