You shouldn't steal food out of someone's desk at work

So this is my mom's story from some years ago, but I figure you all might enjoy it.

Mom used to work in a quasi-IT role at a car manufacturing plant some years ago. Anyway, she had a desk that she spent her days working at, but a big part of her role was interfacing with the facilities/maintenance guys to record their work tickets and write reports on them. So she had a desk with a few drawers down one side, but no locks. Her desk was not really in a typical office setting, it was in a large open space with other maintenance equipment and stuff around.

Anyway, mom keeps snacks in her desk, especially salty stuff like potato chips or cashews. During a Christmas gift exchange at work, someone gifted her some chocolate covered almonds. Well, mom doesn't really like almonds, but she does like chocolate. So mom started eating the chocolate covered almonds, except that she wasn't eating them, she would just suck the chocolate off and then spit out the almond and dump it in an old empty tin of cashews.

After a month or so, mom is almost out of chocolate covered almonds and her cashew tin is pretty full of almonds she has spit out. One day she goes off to a few meetings for a couple of hours, and comes back to her desk. She opens a drawer to get something out, and notices a large chunk of the almonds in the cashew tin are missing. Like, it went from full to under half full. So mom takes the opportunity to laugh out loud. Despite this large warehouse like area she sits in, there are some other coworkers who sit nearby, and the maintenance guys coming/going all day.

Someone asks mom what's so funny. She turns around and calmly replies, "Well I hope whoever stole the almonds out of my desk knows that those were chocolate covered almonds. I sucked the chocolate off and spit them out." Everyone started laughing pretty hard, except for one maintenance guy who turned white and looked reeeeeally uncomfortable.

Moral of the story: don't steal food out of someone's desk at work. You don't know what they did to it, hah.