This just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. As one anonymous New Yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!
(Thank you kindly? Best wishes? Hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)
147 responses so far ↓
#1
Team Cassandra
That insulin was fucking delicious! Booyah!
Nov 8, 2007 at 12:57 pm rating: 31
#2
KarenLW
Oh, this one’s going to be good !
Nov 8, 2007 at 12:58 pm rating: 0
#3
unholyghost2003
WOW! MUCH improved. Classic Passive agression (thank you for “cleaning the fridge”) with just a hint of guilt (the murder of diabetics) This one makes me all happy inside!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:02 pm rating: 17
#4
Melissa
That was fabulous!!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:05 pm rating: 0
#5
unholyghost2003
I just wish there was clip art.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm rating: 5
#6
Allie
That’s awesome!
Insulin! You just threw out someone’s insulin! Great.
Extremes.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm rating: 2
#7
Chrissie
They are out to destroy the “new, growing colony”. So much for finding strange new worlds.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:12 pm rating: 1
#8
MissHoneychurch
It’s a science experiment!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:14 pm rating: 1
#9
JPav
C’mon, what is or what is not edible is purely subjective. Rotten lettuce? Insulin? String cheese? Our lines are open…
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:15 pm rating: 2
#10
Wade
I’m trying to decide if the insulin tossing is a hypothetical. Since they could write the note while in a coma, I’m going to guess yes.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:15 pm rating: 0
#11
Wade
It’s almost as if this note is in response to a previous note:
http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/10/21/if-the-tsa-was-in-charge-of-the-office-fridge/
Maybe the bag containing the Tupperware was too large.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:20 pm rating: 0
#12
unholyghost2003
What makes this note great is the determination to stay with the “cleaning the fridge” conceit. Obviously if the thief was cleaning the fridge more than just the one lunch would be gone. Taking the cleaning conceit all the way down town to the ‘careless disposal of lunch bags can KILL’ is true determination. Unless this person is actually dumb enough to believe that it was a cleaning error and not lunch theft.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:20 pm rating: 0
#13
adam amato
What if there was no insulin? now you’ve accused a man, Or woman, of murder and OCD. I think thats a hair worse than cleaning a fridge.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:20 pm rating: 1
#14
morpho aurora
did anyone check the trash can by claw’s desk?
just don’t use communal fridges – either bring something that doesn’t have to be kept cold or bring your own little cooler bag.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:23 pm rating: 0
#15
Keachie
Maybe the thief was a diabetic ?
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:30 pm rating: 6
#16
unholyghost2003
but the insulin MUST be refrigerated, as do (apparently) the new penicillin samples growing in there. the PROBLEM is that some jerk wad left their LUNCH in the MEDICAL fridge!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:31 pm rating: 1
#17
Mishee
Who brings lettuce and cucumbers to make their salad at work? I would say just make the salad at home and put it in personal Tupperware… that way when it gets rotten and moldy, it will be thrown out!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:31 pm rating: 0
#18
JPav
I like how the author condemns their ‘carelessness’ but condones their ‘dedication’
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:32 pm rating: 1
#19
RP
@#10 Wade: I’m sure a diabetic would have backup insulin, probably in a separate container.
The thief owes the note writer some drugs!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:33 pm rating: 0
#20
WickedLady
Perhaps that new colony ate the Tupperware?
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:36 pm rating: 3
#21
JPav
“Good luck with all of your future refrigerator cleaning endeavors.”
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:39 pm rating: 0
#22
Wade
blasted colonials!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:39 pm rating: 0
#23
Andy
Hmmm. Hungry on the 12th floor. Could it be…?
Team Hungry Hungry Hippos on the 12th floor, passed out in an diabetic coma.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:41 pm rating: 0
#24
Wade
Wouldn’t keeping a baggie of portioned out pretzels be considered symptomatic of OCD?
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:42 pm rating: 2
#25
TeeHee
NICE!! LMAO ‘you just caused a diabetic coma’!!!
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:44 pm rating: 2
#26
Midleah
If the perp was truly OCD, nothing would have been left in that fridge. Good food, rotten food, shelving, ice cube trays…all gone.
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:46 pm rating: 1
#27
WickedLady
I don’t think discrimination has anything to do with this. It’s obvious that experimental colony affected the Tupperware and made it come to life. Then they started a war, because they both wanted to rule over the office fridge. Some brave person just came along and randomly discarded one of the two to prevent a food fight. Little did (s)he know, the Tupperware contained insulin and (s)he caused a diabetic coma. Such tragedy…
Nov 8, 2007 at 1:52 pm rating: 0
#28
Ariadne
At least the spelling and grammar are good – but why is the whole note center-justified? Was this a side-effect of diabetic shock setting in?
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:08 pm rating: 1
#29
Team Cassandra
It must be really, really hard to write a note while you’re in a coma. Never mind typing it and centre formatting …and all those extra bonus words!
This diabetic is my new hero.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:22 pm rating: 1
#30
Space Monkey
Center-justification, references to murder, diabetic shock, and comas…the one thing that would make this carry more weight is if it were typed in Comic Sans -or Curlz. Yeah, Curlz. Maybe Webdings, too. That’s always cryptic.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:24 pm rating: 1
#31
tootle
However, this note has made my day!
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:27 pm rating: 0
#32
morpho aurora
#29 – with NOTICE scrawled across the top in purple marker
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:29 pm rating: 0
#33
unholyghost2003
Oh Google! “Inside a Boyfriends Mind” and “Marriage Problems” … perhaps if i dodn’t have the boyfriend I wouldn’t be having trouble in my marriage …
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:29 pm rating: 0
#34
Space Monkey
Morpho: aaand printed 14 times over and taped on different walls throughout said office floor. Maybe a few on the other floors too to show you mean bidness.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:32 pm rating: 0
#35
DrAstroZoom
The great thing about sarcasm and condemnation is that they both heat to perfect eating temperature in 90 seconds or less (depending on your microwave)!
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:34 pm rating: 0
#36
the dawd
This one time at band camp, i confused rotten lettuce with sauerkraut. FYI i still can’t un-taste that. Maybe the poor OCD stricken cleaner is not as culturally aware as the PA note writer.
What if the cleaner is a forgetful diabetic? What if… Team hungry on the 12th floor are exaggerating about their lack of food and there is a cafeteria on the 2nd floor.
i don’t know what to believe in anymore.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:34 pm rating: 0
#37
Josie
As long as they survive the diabetic coma, I don’t see the problem. The diabetic can get a ton of money off a work-comp claim possibly allowing him/her the luxury of staying home ensuring no one will ever again steal their pretzels and string cheese…
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:37 pm rating: 1
#38
Julie
This could only have been better had it been in Comic Sans.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:40 pm rating: 1
#39
Space Monkey
Is there an echo? lol!
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:43 pm rating: 0
#40
Zsa
hold your horses~ the overall sarcasm that assumes the unknown person was cleaning the fridge and not just out grazing on other’s lunches it the topper for me.
Come one now, if you are grazing you will NOT eat rotten food- you’ll go for the nicely packaged and portion controlled snacks!
high-level P-A is so f*ing de-lic-i-ous
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:43 pm rating: 0
#41
Space Monkey
Actually no. I said more than that.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:44 pm rating: 0
#42
Mr DeBakey
I bet that the practical joker who hid the carefully planned healthy lunch in the 11th floor fridge is feeling pretty silly about now.
Nov 8, 2007 at 2:49 pm rating: 1
#43
Canthz_B
“WTF? Where’s my carefully planned healty lunch?!”
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:03 pm rating: 1
#44
WickedLady
“To the person who took it upon themselves…”
It sounds a bit strange to me. Shouldn’t it be “To the persons” or ” who took it upon himself/herself”?
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:08 pm rating: 0
#45
D
haha. there’s nothing healthier than a salad seasoned with insulin
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:08 pm rating: 1
#46
the dawd
That tossed insulin salad was fucking delicious!
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:10 pm rating: 1
#47
Canthz_B
“Why the discrimination? Because the cleaning was a diversion. My main purpose was to toss out the string cheese that you have a habit of breathing into my nostrils every afternoon! Stay out of my personal space cheese-breath!”
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:14 pm rating: 0
#48
Sean
Dear OCD,
That rotting colony was fucking delicious. Thank you for not throwing it out.
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:17 pm rating: 1
#49
Canthz_B
Four leaves of Romain (torn),
Four 1/8 inch disks of cucumber (quartered),
One and a half sticks of string cheese,
Seven and a half pretzels.
The carefully planned healthy lunch.
ENJOY
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:36 pm rating: 1
#50
Writer, Rejected
Wait. Is she saying that pretzels are healthy now! Pretzels? That’s outrageous. If so, I’m going down to the Cumby’s right now and buying myself some bags of Rolds Golds, and I’m going to feel good about it. Usually I just suffer through a bunch of rotting lettuce, which even OCD-fridge cleaner knows not to touch.
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:41 pm rating: 1
#51
Mitsu
how could they write such a good PA note while in a diabetic coma? Wow.
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:48 pm rating: 0
#52
Midleah
Darn. I thought Canthz were leading up to a MasterCard “priceless” joke…
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:49 pm rating: 0
#53
Mishee
Follow up to #49 –
(for Midleah)
… Being able to eat your lunch without worrying it will be thrown out: Priceless
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:55 pm rating: 0
#54
Mitsu
LOL, the “growing their own colony” is great! Speaking of that, the 2 fridges at my workplace have things that grew their own colonies, and now the fridges are infested by…
FRIDGE HEISA MONSTERS!!!!
Nov 8, 2007 at 3:55 pm rating: 0
#55
Canthz_B
#52, I “were”!
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:04 pm rating: 0
#56
Canthz_B
*romaine* right?
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:07 pm rating: 0
#57
Lara
But what if someone had taken the insulin, then found out there was no lunch? Diabetics need to eat after they take an injection.
Or what if there were plutonium rods in there, which are even now heating up to an unsafe temperature.? Now you have a freaking MASS MURDERER!
Or what if there was a goldfish in there that someone won at a street fair on their lunch hour? FISH KILLER!
So many things Mr./Ms. OCD didn’t consider when on their cleaning spree.
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:09 pm rating: 0
#58
DJ CELSIUS
very nice!! Some very impressice passive agression going on here
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:13 pm rating: 0
#59
A.A guy
Who the hell refrigerates pretzels?
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:19 pm rating: 2
#60
Izzy
Or, you know, they could have thrown their own lunch away and got something unhealthy instead. Perhaps the note-writer didn’t consider this obvious possibility. You ARE allowed to throw your own lunch away.
Nov 8, 2007 at 4:29 pm rating: 0
#61
Wade
nice one, Dr AZ!
Nov 8, 2007 at 5:27 pm rating: 0
#62
GVI
Congrats to the Dr.
Nov 8, 2007 at 5:33 pm rating: 0
#63
anglophile
I’ll tell you what. If it was real personal Tupperware (love the carefully capitalize brand name!), I would be flipping pissed if it didn’t show up empty in the fridge the next day. It’s one thing to be out impersonal Gladware, but to be out the good stuff, that’s worse than tossing someone’s insulin. That stuff ain’t cheap.
Nov 8, 2007 at 5:34 pm rating: 0
#64
DrAstroZoom
::sniffles:: Thank you all!
Nov 8, 2007 at 5:35 pm rating: 0
#65
WanderingPenguin
LMAO A.A Guy. I hadn’t thought of that. That’s too funny!
Nov 8, 2007 at 6:02 pm rating: 0
#66
shelly
Why would someone put their insulin in a communal refrigerator?
This note is definitely one of my favorites. It’s absolutely crazy.
Nov 8, 2007 at 6:22 pm rating: 0
#67
Mishee
#35 Dr Zoom – but what if a local skateboarder is using the microwave and burns it up? Then you are screwed! (Congrats on getting Word!)
Nov 8, 2007 at 6:52 pm rating: 0
#68
morpho aurora
don’t forget the possums mish
(i wonder if they heat up in 90 seconds too)
nice going dr
Nov 8, 2007 at 7:00 pm rating: 0
#69
juan
ocd: stop screwing around other fridges. stick to your own fridge, dammit.
hungry: put a label on your lunch bag/box & put a sock in it.
now everybody get back to work!
Nov 8, 2007 at 7:09 pm rating: 0
#70
DirtyOldLady
“You just caused a diabetic coma! Now what are you going to do?”
“…I’m going to DisneyWorld!”
Nov 8, 2007 at 7:25 pm rating: 0
#71
super_fan#99
The 12th floor fridge:
Initiative!
Personal tupperware.
Rotten lettuce, moldy cucumbers!
THEY NEEDED THAT!
Coma.
Happy?
Dedication.
Growing own colony.
Hungry.
Nov 8, 2007 at 7:36 pm rating: 0
#72
Lindsay
omg that brings back nightmares of my roommate from last year. she carefully measured out every single little amount of food she consumed. every snack and every meal would be eaten from measuring cups or mini-tupperwares that were of half-cup or quarter-cup sizes. every little thing would be very carefully poured into one of those to be sure it was exact. omgggggg it was ridiculous!
Nov 8, 2007 at 7:48 pm rating: 0
#73
Mishee
I’m surprised we haven’t gotten an Evil Haiku yot about fridge food… (cue the irrepressable Troy McClure!)
Lindsay – that’s funny because I was just laughing at these two RAIL THIN girls at work today who were talking about doing just that (“Oh, I have a cup of rice with about 2 ounces of fruit along with…”) God it makes me want to PUKE!
Nov 8, 2007 at 8:40 pm rating: 0
#74
Troy McClure
I am repressible. This is an awesome post, but sadly I scarcely have time to read this site today, much less pollute it with my rhymes. Sorry. Oh, what the hell …
Your victim may be hypothetical
But nevertheless diabetical
May you be cursed
For the office’s first
Offence hypothetico-medical
Nov 8, 2007 at 9:36 pm rating: 0
#75
gdad
The rats, possoms, birds, lizzards, rabbits, vagrants, thieves and local skateboarders might be suspect here as well.
Nov 8, 2007 at 9:41 pm rating: 0
#76
Mishee
LMAO! Good job Troy!!
Nov 8, 2007 at 9:41 pm rating: 0
#77
morpho aurora
lol thanks troy
Nov 8, 2007 at 10:55 pm rating: 0
#78
bobwong
re: #73 Mishee! Don’t bother puking, I’m sure those girls have already done it for you.
Nov 9, 2007 at 5:47 am rating: 0
#79
suhayla
There’s nothing like a diabetic murdering straw-man…
Nov 9, 2007 at 6:09 am rating: 0
#80
A.A guy
Suppose that I had a hot date the night of the fridge cleaning and had left a six pack of safety wraps in my lunch bag.It’s 6:00, my lunch,my guy coats,all gone! I’ve no time to hit 7-11,must rely on the circular impression in my wallet thats been there since the mullet days.
………… Scene forwards 20 yrs………..
It turns out Walter Safety was brittle,and I capable of fertilization.The Brazilian girl ,Maria
gives birth to a blue eyed, blonde haired aryian(seems her grand dad was involved in some experiment in the late 1940s).
Chaos ensues,jackboots in the street,war machines rise,France and Italy surrender ,a 4th Reich has been born.
Please just leave the old food,you know not what you could set in motion.
Team A Sound Of Thunder
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:03 am rating: 0
#81
MJaz
You know.. this fridge-cleaner may just have saved a life – if the owner of that lunch was a bird.
http://www.dds.com/store/files/49/12388833.pdf
(Isn’t a famous brand of string cheese hawked by a parrot? Polly-O)
First post here, by a longtime lurker.. go easy on me please!
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:07 am rating: 0
#82
Troy McClure
MJaz, wow, lurk no longer my friend, if you’re going to be posting links to the likes of “Does everything that taste good to us safe? Of course not ! Radiator antifreeze has a great sweet taste….” (If I were in rhetorical need of an example of something that tastes great but maybe isn’t so good for you, I’d probably begin my mental search in the kitchen rather than the garage.)
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:17 am rating: 0
#83
Canthz_B
Maybe it’s just me…but just who tasted antifreeze, and why?
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:43 am rating: 0
#84
Troy McClure
Brandon is checking the flutes out
The vending machine’s spitting beers out
Some of the squad
Get laid while the Dawd
Ingests ununtastable sauerkraut
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:46 am rating: 0
#85
Mishee
Antifreeze makes a good wine….
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:47 am rating: 0
#86
Canthz_B
I have been known to nibble a bit!
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:03 am rating: 0
#87
wicked opinion
#63 I thought I was the only one to notice “personal” tupperware…. when is tupperware impersonal and what would make it so? If you and your tupperware weren’t speaking due to a misunderstanding about leaving towels on the bathroom floor? Hmmm…
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:05 am rating: 0
#88
wicked opinion
Troy Mc Clure I have a crush – you are fucking delicious!
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:08 am rating: 0
#89
Troy McClure
Wow WO, you’re spacing me out!
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:13 am rating: 0
#90
Katzndogz
If the person’s lunch was salad, cheese stick and portioned out pretzels, then it’s possible that the person is diabetic and that’s why he/she came up with the insulin scenario.
I’m with the others who think this might be a stolen lunch. When people go on cleaning sprees, it’s usually in the afternoon – and this appears to have happened in the morning. Also, people usually post a notice that fridge cleaning is imminent.
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:29 am rating: 0
#91
Troy McClure
keep your virtual hands off my merchandise – from Troy’s concubine
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:29 am rating: 0
#92
FickleGal
I love this one.
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:29 am rating: 0
#93
Mishee
Concubine! I was just saying that to protect your goods…
I would want someone to do that for me in the same situation!!
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:30 am rating: 0
#94
Canthz_B
You girls are in trouble now!…You’ve woken up Troy’s concubine!
YES, I said WOKEN UP…Bygones!!!
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:35 am rating: 0
#95
Canthz_B
Naw, It’s valid…just not in common usage where I happen to reside.
Leave well enough alone.
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:45 am rating: 0
#96
Canthz_B
Still here MJaz?
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:47 am rating: 0
#97
wicked opinion
I’m not SCUUURRREEEDD *wink wink hi troy (coy finger wave) OMG remember telnet?? oops I just revealed my art dork background… dammit
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:13 am rating: 0
#98
the dawd
???? Is WO trolling? what is next, using a box of Kraft Dinner to seduce Troy?
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:19 am rating: 0
#99
the dawd
Hello Troy. I might remember you from such films as Disclosure, and Fatal Attraction.
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:22 am rating: 0
#100
wicked opinion
‘scuse me? is there a problem? I already made the trouble list – first timer – YES!!
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:26 am rating: 0
#101
A.A guy
If W.O is after a troll, I think Brandons still out there somewhere.
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:27 am rating: 0
#102
Mishee
dawd! you gotta go to: http://www.snpp.com/guides/troy.mcclure.html
I myself remember Troy from such films as: “‘P’ is for Psycho”, “Dial M for Murderousness”, and the unforgettable, “Jagged Attraction”…
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:46 am rating: 0
#103
wicked opinion
I HEART TROY hee hee hee
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:50 am rating: 0
#104
the dawd
This one time at band camp, i went trolling down the river…
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:50 am rating: 0
#105
Midleah
“Slow Down David Copperfield, What’s That Down Your Sock?”
LMAO!!!
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:53 am rating: 0
#106
Mishee
This is one of my personal favorites…
“Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great ‘Frisco Freak-Out”
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:58 am rating: 0
#107
Midleah
“Locker Room Towel Fights : The Blinding of Larry Driscoll”
Somebody take the link away from me; I may hurt myself…
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:01 am rating: 0
#108
Mishee
That one is my second favorite! Isn’t the list just amazing!? I love it!
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:03 am rating: 0
#109
the dawd
I want to go rent “Fuzzy Bunny’s Guide to You Know What”
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:11 am rating: 0
#110
Mishee
That one is hilarious… the music in the background is like, porno music! LMAO!
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:12 am rating: 0
#111
Juliet
I’m still laughing at #74
“hypo-medical”
Genius! However I don’t have a crush on Troy like WO does… that is his/her domain. I just enjoy the parodies.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:12 am rating: 0
#112
Juliet
Oops I meant “hypothetico-medical”
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:13 am rating: 0
#113
Midleah
“The Erotic Adventures of Hercules”
“The Half-Assed Guide to Foundation Repair”
That’s quite a range he’s got there…
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:13 am rating: 0
#114
WanderingPenguin
Hold the phone: did CB say “woken up”? Oh, no you di’n't. *wagging finger* (wow, “street” really doesn’t translate well to the printed word, does it?)
Methinks A.A Guy’s vision of Armageddon might be closer than we think!
I am not sure why it took me a whole day to get back to my obscure band theme, but I just wanted to say that perhaps we should start referring to this as “The String Cheese (and pretzel) Incident”.
Ok, look, I am going to keep at this until nobody knows what I am referencing. You’ve all been warned.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:19 am rating: 0
#115
Mishee
This is another great one of Troy’s educational films: “Firecrackers: The Silent Killer”
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:37 am rating: 0
#116
hannibal
#93: Any real diabetic knows that going without insulin takes weeks/months/years to kill you, not a day. A diabetic coma comes from having too low blood sugar, not too high.
The insulin nonsense is one of the worst mistakes movies make all the time. It’s worse than the toast popping up burned just because someone is late (because when you’re late you change the setting on your toaster, right?) or someone getting a dial tone as soon as the other party hangs up (that doesn’t generally happen, as anyone who has been hung up on and said “hello, hello, are you there” knows very well).
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:44 am rating: 0
#117
Canthz_B
Thanks hannibal…real life would be incomprehensible were it not for you.
How have we managed to muddle through it?
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:47 am rating: 0
#118
Midleah
Mishee, you’re my hero. Let me take you to a matinee sometime.
“Leper in the Backfield”, perhaps?
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:49 am rating: 0
#119
hannibal
You haven’t.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:50 am rating: 0
#120
WanderingPenguin
Actually, hannibal, both hyper- and hypoglycemia can cause a diabetic coma. And it can come on quite quickly, though that’s not the norm and anyone who is likely to progress right to a coma in an afternoon isn’t likely to have just the one “bag of insulin” in a public place, probably.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:52 am rating: 0
#121
Canthz_B
Then this must be my incorporeal self haunting your litany of the obvious.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:53 am rating: 0
#122
WanderingPenguin
And actually, come to think of it – as katzndogz already alluded to – it’s actually almost as dangerous for that kind of person to have his/her lunch stolen as it would be to have the insulin disappear. However, I believe that said person would have signed the note quite differently – perhaps “Unconscious & Literally ON the 12th Floor”.
Nov 9, 2007 at 11:58 am rating: 0
#123
hannibal
Well, yeah, of course they’re obvious. That’s why they’re irritating. Because they’re obviously wrong, and yet they’re ever-present. Wasn’t that obviously my point?
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:02 pm rating: 0
#124
morpho aurora
my aunt is a “brittle diabetic”
it doesn’t take much to put her in the hospital
for weeks at a time
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:03 pm rating: 0
#125
hannibal
WP: When people refer to diabetic comas they’re almost always talking about the vastly most common sort, I would imagine.
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:04 pm rating: 0
#126
hannibal
That was a beautiful haiku.
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:04 pm rating: 0
#127
WanderingPenguin
Well, hannibal, the “most common sort” of diabetic coma is the one where the diabetic person becomes unconscious. And that can happen with either high or low blood sugar – any extreme will do it.
I was merely refuting what you wrote in post #124 – and I am not even a “real diabetic”! Actually, since I’m not a “real diabetic”, I guess I didn’t really refute your statement after all. Hmm….
Anyhow, if someone is implying that the loss of their insulin for an afternoon could possibly send them into a diabetic coma then they are not really talking about the most common sort.
It’s all about context.
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:09 pm rating: 0
#128
Canthz_B
Well hannibal…I happen to be a health claims examiner and there is no such thing as a “most common sort” of diabetic coma. All diabetics have complications affecting various other bodily functions…the variables are nearly innumerable. Each situation is unique as a result of the nature of his/her diabetic disorder.
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 0
#129
Canthz_B
And yes, Diabetes is classified as a disorder, not a disease.
Nov 9, 2007 at 12:28 pm rating: 0
#130
Mishee
What’s the code for a diabetic coma CB?
Nov 9, 2007 at 1:27 pm rating: 0
#131
Canthz_B
251.0 hypoglycemic; 250.2 hyperglycemic.
There are many others though as I said above.
Nov 9, 2007 at 1:40 pm rating: 0
#132
Canthz_B
Diabetes is a complicated disorder…the codes I gave each require a fifth digit depending upon the variable factors.
As I said…there is no “common”.
Nov 9, 2007 at 1:43 pm rating: 0
#133
Lurker
I keep my insulin in the communal fridge at work – not much of a choice. But it’s in a container marked “LURKER’S INSULIN” in big letters – which is the sort of container I’d expect any diabetic to use. Nobody’s ever bothered it, even in the most slash-and-burn fridge cleanings.
Nov 9, 2007 at 2:08 pm rating: 0
#134
ndpity
Just wanted to clear up a few things here (I have type-1 diabetes). The note-leaver is obviously frustrated, and more than a little bit dramatic. But I also would be REALLY pissed if my insulin suddenly disappeared. That’s why I would never put it in the fridge at work. Insulin really IS delicious and makes a great salad. And it smells just like Band-Aids.
A “diabetic coma” usually refers to high blood sugar and ketoacidosis from lack of insulin, although low blood sugar can cause loss of consciousness also.
I would assume that the insulin in question is of the fast-acting variety, and that the note-leaver is on multiple daily injections – meaning, he/she takes insulin at each meal and would have to fast if they were unable to take it. And if that person happened to be a type-1 diabetic, they would be in bad shape within a couple hours – risking long-term complications like blindness and nerve damage. It sounds like this person is being proactive in trying to prevent those complications, which is why they should really keep their insulin elsewhere. It doesn’t REALLY need to be refrigerated after you open it, anyway.
Nov 9, 2007 at 2:20 pm rating: 0
#135
WanderingPenguin
From what I have read, ndpity, any extreme glucose levels – high or low – can bring on a diabetic coma. I had a look at the Mayo Clinic site and they didn’t seem to indicate that one was more common than the other. Other sites made it seem like hypoglycemia was the most common cause, while some seemed to back up your statement. But as I said before, I don’t have diabetes (though several family members have had it) so I am only going by what I have read, not having witnessed a diabetic coma firsthand.
I agree with everything else you wrote, though. And since it came from a “real diabetic”, I hope hannibal reads it as well.
Nov 9, 2007 at 3:04 pm rating: 0
#136
A.A guy
“Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up doing needles”
Nov 9, 2007 at 6:22 pm rating: 0
#137
Emily
i’d totally say that b/c i’d be pissed as fuck if someone threw away my lunch. It’s typical for people to look at what they’re throwing away…I’m pissed for her!
Nov 9, 2007 at 7:28 pm rating: 0
#138
anglophile
Did I totally read this note wrong? I think: (a) Hungry knows damn well that no one “cleaned” the fridge–they just stole her lunch; and (b) no insulin was actually thrown out, she’s just pissed her portioned out pretzels are gone, and she’s pouring on the drama.
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:19 pm rating: 0
#139
dicky49
Angliophile is right. The noteposter just used the diabetic coma as a ruse to lay a guilt trip on the lunchstealer SOB.
Nov 9, 2007 at 8:49 pm rating: 0
#140
dicky49
#146 – I appreciate the comments and the lessons on diabetes/insulin. It always helps to know more about what were going on and on about, doesn’t it?
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:02 pm rating: 0
#141
Troy McClure
Kraft dinner? That might work actually… it’s lucky the dawd hasn’t got a crush on me. I’d be defenseless. I’d probably end up the band camp gimp.
ndpity, is your first name Sarah?
Nov 9, 2007 at 9:22 pm rating: 0
#142
summer
why would somebody throw out perfectly good string cheese in a tupperware, and not discard a new species growing from a bag of iceberg?…hmmmm.
Nov 9, 2007 at 10:51 pm rating: 0
#143
anglophile
Don’t sweat it, dicky49. I don’t know what Anglios are, but if I did, I’d probably like them just as much as I like Anglos!
Nov 10, 2007 at 6:58 pm rating: 0
#144
bobby
Team Diabetes. Don’t throw out insulin! Unless it’s the made up diabetes of melodrama. That right aint shit.
Jul 18, 2008 at 3:59 pm rating: 0
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