Each week they pull up in a new town, solve a mystery and sell pancakes.

"I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

Keg: You should make another batch laced with laxatives (bring a non-fridgeable actual lunch), then check to see who spends an inordinate amount of time hitting the washroom during the afternoon. And the best part is, since you won't be eating it yourself, you can just keep bringing the container every day and if the culprit is lying low for a bit, they'll get both food poisoning and laxatives later on.

"Crime doesn't pay, King Sombra. Now, would you like to buy some pancakes?"

Grrrr writers block gggrrrr...what's happening in here.

OH MY GOD

They sell pancakes.

They fight crime.

They flatten crime.

I'm very sorry.

@Kegisak: I'm glad I never had to deal with that from coworkers. In college though... just because I said I'd share my chips doesn't mean you open a new bag and eat the whole damn thing yourself. You never finish off somebody else's shared food without permission.

Also, the first thing I plan on doing when my parents go on vacation is baking myself a fuckload of cookies. Last time they left I made a huge amount of candied bacon, which was awesome.

@Apple: Helpful long-term hint for writer's block: any time you think of an interesting story idea, put it on a list on google docs or something. Over time you'll accumulate a bunch of them. Then when you have writer's block on one thing you can shelve it and work on something else. Even if you never develop the other ideas, working on them will keep the creative juices flowing. If that fails, forget writing and do something else. Watch a movie, play a video game, take a nap, whatever. Anything to change your mental state. Forcing it will just make you more frustrated.

Also, as good as pancakes are, I prefer waffles.

edited 30th May '13 10:30:03 AM by JapaneseTeeth

@Kuroi: Eh, if this was something that was happening consistantly, maybe, but it's a bit petty just for one offence, heh.

Although maybe I should start paying closer attention to my lunch...

@JT: Yeah, this is the first time it's happened, is the odd thing. I mean, I guess Pancake are more appetizing than rice and beef or something, I dunno.I wasn't even aware it was something people actually did, because I mean... seriously, what the fuck?

edited 30th May '13 10:31:34 AM by kegisak

@ JT

Doing that idea. One day, I'm going to post the google doc I have up. It's long and rambling and full of too many ideas.

Keg: Really? It's prominent enough that I've seen many office place jokes about lunch theft in media. And honestly, having worked retail, I had no doubt that it was truth in television (seriously, I've caught people stealing 75 cent candy bars...).

I guess it figured it probably did happen, I just honestly having a hard time assuming someone is that much of a dick. Because stealing lunch is sort of in that zone where you're doing something bad, but not awful, so it just makes you look really fucking petty and stupid. It's just a bizarre thing to do.

There was Ross's sandwich in friends for example.

Cleaners throwing out food is also popular joke fodder.

@Apple: Yeah, I have one with about a dozen ideas sitting in it. I've been working a bit on some of them.

Ok, I'll polish it up and show it to the fanfic thread.

Maybe you guys can point out character concepts you like.

You could just show it here. You'd probably get a faster response.

Yeah, the fanfic thread can be pretty clogged since there are so many ongoing projects.

Keg: When anonymity is involved, there is no shame, nothing too petty. >.> Or even perceived anonymity. The store once had this woman trying to steal an Archie comic by hiding it in a free pamphlet, but her kid, with no concept of why she was doing it, just kept tossing the pamphlet aside so she could read the book. I didn't get to see it live, but this cycle went on for like five minutes on camera.

Alrighty, here then.

Like I say, just let me clean it up first.

Speaking of pancakes, I've only bought free-range pancakes since I found out some pancake farms keep their young breeder pancakes in tiny, cramped cages.

As if that wasn't bad enough, some pancake farms resort to underfeeding their low-fat pancakes to keep them low in fat, giving them just enough maple syrup to survive, but never enough to satisfy their cravings. It's heartbreaking.

Someone ought to skim through their records. Maybe that'll give everyone the whole story.

Don't milk the joke, Kyler.

CURDS!

Now, now let's not have a cow.

Wouldn't want anyone getting creamed around here.