Teaspoon Thief
Discussion
55palfers said:
Perhaps you have some particularly collectable spoons?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
If you have read all 35 pages of this thread, you will understand that it becomes an addiction and adherents are quite unable to control their urges should a rare or interesting spoon present itself.
Statistically that is not a valid conclusion, as the previous study (half life of tea spoons) found half life was not affected by spoon design.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
If you have read all 35 pages of this thread, you will understand that it becomes an addiction and adherents are quite unable to control their urges should a rare or interesting spoon present itself.
Frank7 said:
Long Drax said:
A similar thing occurred in my office about three years ago. I fired all the coffee drinkers. No teaspoon has been stolen since that time. Instant Coffee drinkers are kleptomaniacs by nature. Get rid of them and, your precious teaspoons will be safe.
I'm surprised that Instant coffee drinkers were employable in the first place.Bristol spark said:
Do people chuck them in the bin, rather than having to wash them?.......
My sister used to wonder why her teaspoons were disappearing. Turns out her young daughter, after eating a Petit Filou or whatever, would insist on taking the empty pot to the waste bin herself, into which she'd throw the pot AND the spoon.Where I am it's all clean desk/hot desks and the wooden stirrers got removed from the kitchens and replaced with spoons due to The Environment. The dozens of new cups purchased slowly disappear as they get chipped and I suppose in this OH&S world it's a risk to have chipped cups. The piles of new cutlery has, however, has been slowly disappearing over the course of the last three months. It never ceases to amaze me that people, and well paid professionals to boot, can't help but steal cutlery and anything else not nailed down.
We have dishwashers in each kitchen too and they turn into a grot fest of all manner of crockery and cutlery simply piled up. The help simply turn the dishwasher on and the effectiveness of the dishwashing is pretty much left to lady luck. I don't know if the nut cases in my office are such pigs at home!
We have dishwashers in each kitchen too and they turn into a grot fest of all manner of crockery and cutlery simply piled up. The help simply turn the dishwasher on and the effectiveness of the dishwashing is pretty much left to lady luck. I don't know if the nut cases in my office are such pigs at home!
Halmyre said:
Bristol spark said:
Do people chuck them in the bin, rather than having to wash them?.......
My sister used to wonder why her teaspoons were disappearing. Turns out her young daughter, after eating a Petit Filou or whatever, would insist on taking the empty pot to the waste bin herself, into which she'd throw the pot AND the spoon.I suggest the connection so far is yogurt eaters...
May I suggest what would happen if we shared an office?
If we shared an office and you showed weakness by commenting about how many teaspoons had gone missing I would make a point of stealing them.
One by one.
All of them.
Until you gave up and stopped buying them.
Then I would start with the forks.
If we shared an office and you showed weakness by commenting about how many teaspoons had gone missing I would make a point of stealing them.
One by one.
All of them.
Until you gave up and stopped buying them.
Then I would start with the forks.
Cob1 said:
May I suggest what would happen if we shared an office?
If we shared an office and you showed weakness by commenting about how many teaspoons had gone missing I would make a point of stealing them.
One by one.
All of them.
Until you gave up and stopped buying them.
Then I would start with the forks.
Some people just want to watch the world burn...If we shared an office and you showed weakness by commenting about how many teaspoons had gone missing I would make a point of stealing them.
One by one.
All of them.
Until you gave up and stopped buying them.
Then I would start with the forks.
Frank7 said:
I'm surprised that Instant coffee drinkers were employable in the first place.
Curse you and your coffee grinder. Mellow Birds is the future of coffee.As for the teaspoon issue, we have only one and it is at such a level of disgusting , no one would steal it. Tarred dark brown from mashing too many tea bags, bent out of shape and sporting a small metal shield on the handle with the word "Ilfracombe" on it, the capacity is too small to be used to eat a yoghurt and only just large enough to get the normal equivalent of half a regular teaspoon of sugar into my cup of hot, steaming Mellow Birds.
I'll try and get a pic if it hasn't been stolen over the weekend.
texaxile said:
Frank7 said:
I'm surprised that Instant coffee drinkers were employable in the first place.
Curse you and your coffee grinder. Mellow Birds is the future of coffee.As for the teaspoon issue, we have only one and it is at such a level of disgusting , no one would steal it. Tarred dark brown from mashing too many tea bags, bent out of shape and sporting a small metal shield on the handle with the word "Ilfracombe" on it, the capacity is too small to be used to eat a yoghurt and only just large enough to get the normal equivalent of half a regular teaspoon of sugar into my cup of hot, steaming Mellow Birds.
I'll try and get a pic if it hasn't been stolen over the weekend.
Once it was just the smell of the stuff was enough to make me nauseous, but even reading the word has made me feel queasy.
No one drank it in our house, but my mother used to keep some, "in case the English come by."
Frank7 said:
Just as I was beginning to feel a degree of empathy with you, you go and blow it by introducing the word tea.
Once it was just the smell of the stuff was enough to make me nauseous, but even reading the word has made me feel queasy.
No one drank it in our house, but my mother used to keep some, "in case the English come by."
And i thought that i was the only Englishman who doesn't get on with tea. Once it was just the smell of the stuff was enough to make me nauseous, but even reading the word has made me feel queasy.
No one drank it in our house, but my mother used to keep some, "in case the English come by."
When younger i could make others a cup but hated the smell and if i tried to drink a cup would find my gag reflex doing overtime.
I still can't drink it to this day, even having tried lots of Green/Black/lapsong dargiwhattisnameithingies etc.
Coffee on the other hand i drink by the pint. Stopped drinking instant (other than when there is no alternative) about 12 years ago and now have an Aeropress that does away with the need for spoons as i would never defile a decent cup of coffee with milk.
ambuletz said:
as someone who drinks neither why would you even take one out a kitchen? unkess you drink your tea/coffee with a spoon like soup.
Teaspoons are much easier to get into little pots of yoghurt than dessert spoons. My mother in law, does not like using a teaspoon to eat pots of yoghurt, but does like Muller Corners and their kind. She then leaves around a quarter of the yoghurt in the pot because she can't get all the way into the corners with a big spoon?
Munter said:
Halmyre said:
Bristol spark said:
Do people chuck them in the bin, rather than having to wash them?.......
My sister used to wonder why her teaspoons were disappearing. Turns out her young daughter, after eating a Petit Filou or whatever, would insist on taking the empty pot to the waste bin herself, into which she'd throw the pot AND the spoon.I suggest the connection so far is yogurt eaters...
I feel I may have a confession to make.
I checked in the cutlery drawer this evening. The knives, forks and spoons all seem to be of a matching set, with very few exceptions.
The teaspoons? Every conceivable variety under the sun. I have no explanation for it.
I checked in the cutlery drawer this evening. The knives, forks and spoons all seem to be of a matching set, with very few exceptions.
The teaspoons? Every conceivable variety under the sun. I have no explanation for it.
Edited by Roofless Toothless on Friday 18th August 21:39
Frank7 said:
Long Drax said:
A similar thing occurred in my office about three years ago. I fired all the coffee drinkers. No teaspoon has been stolen since that time. Instant Coffee drinkers are kleptomaniacs by nature. Get rid of them and, your precious teaspoons will be safe.
I'm surprised that Instant coffee drinkers were employable in the first place.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff