the Dingo Thingie

On the refridge door at the office, somebody put up a printout with a picture of colorful fruit salad. It reads something like "Missing Fruit Salad. Please don't eat it if it's not yours." My instant reaction was "who would do something like that?" I meant the person who put the missing notice, not the one who ate it.

I am not saying eating other peopple's salad without saying a thing is a right thing to do. But there are always some left-overs from office meetings, usually good food, that are free for everybody to enjoy. If you put your stuff in a public spot, you take the risk of it going missing. I could have been the one who ate it, with good reasons.

I said to my other colleagues maybe I should claim my guilt anyways so that the rest of the people in the office can be free of guilt. Then I blurted out the famous line by Elaine from Seinfeld, "Maybe the Dingo ate your baby..." Am I brutal or what? Those who heard me privately all claimed they couldn't shake the dingo line off their head for the past two days.