eating (moldy) crow......

ok, so.....i work with people who are generally mild-mannered....and so it was a great surprise a few weeks back when the mildest-mannered of them all got up at a staff meeting and told us all that it pained her to know that a thief worked amongst us....that someone had stolen her lunch of soup beans and canned peaches out of the refrigerator.....and at the very least said thief should return her tupperware (the word anonymously was implied but she struggled with this word as i recall.....)and there followed dialogue about whether or not we needed surveillance cameras and all other manner of reactionary concern for 'stolen' soup beans......and so it came to pass this morning.....that a nurse cleaning out a cupboard that is situated right beside the refrigerator of the stolen soup beans...came up with a completely moldy and swollen tupperare of beans....and an equally nasty tupperware of diced peaches........and it was oh-so-clear that the beans were simply miss-placed.....and not stolen at all.....and the person in question just stood and laughed...and told us all about how at christmas she found a baggie of country ham her mother had sent home in her silverware drawer.....which was right next to her refrigerator.......and i will admit to feeling sorry for this person....to be found out as dotty rather than a victim of crime.......which brings me to my point......that we may all be too quick to accuse our family and friends of all manner of heinous crimes.....and that we (mostly me) need to take a few moments to be sure that it wasn't us (mostly me) that is to blame.......for the record....soup beans that have languished unrefrigerated for several weeks are especially vulgar to behold.......