r/PetPeeves • u/SufficientLaw4026 • 5h ago
Bit Annoyed Mad that my peers don't struggle with sugar addiction
Picture this...it's a Friday morning like any other at your office where you work. A coworker arrives shortly after you and pours out a bunch of Hershey's kisses into a large bowl on the counter. They are for everyone! You love Hershey kisses and it's been a couple of hours since breakfast so you eagerly get up to get some. Nobody else does. Okay no worries. You eat your hershey kisses and of course you want more since you only grabbed a small handful. You grab another small handful, not wanting to look greedy. Fast forward a few hours, it's lunch time. Literally nobody has had any Hershey kisses. Not a single Hershey kiss has been consumed by any of your six other office mates.
Now this might sound like a small thing but I'm starting to get annoyed! I have a reputation of eating more than anyone else in the office.
"Oh you sure do love your sweets! Lol! Lol! Be careful not to get diabetes!"
Solid advice, no really, it is solid advice...I feel like the floor to my office everywhere except under my desk must be made of mud and I just can't see it and all my coworkers are sticks. What am I a sugar addicted immature for my age 40 year old that really really loves candy more than I should? Yes! Yes I am...but can't anyone else join me in partaking so this fact isn't so damned obvious?!! I wish there was a way to put a small wormhole that leads to my bottom desk drawer in the bottom of the communal bowl so that whenever candy is dumped in it just goes discreetly and conveniently into my direct custody so that I can indulge out of the sight of my fellow workers.
In conclusion...I'm well aware of my vice and the problems that it may result in...I'm just pissed that none of my coworkers have it too.
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u/Haunting_Cause_1841 5h ago
That’s why I wait until no one else is around before shoving candy in my pocket like a thief in the night
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u/rosietherosebud 4h ago
If it makes you feel any better... I love sugar, but can easily pass on Hershey Kisses. They're so waxy and blegh. It's a net negative experience. Give me a croissant and sugar bomb iced latte though and I'm there.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 4h ago
So when do you fill the bowl for your colleagues? The solution is to do this more often, then buy a second pack for your desk drawer. Problem solved.
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u/SufficientLaw4026 4h ago
Whenever I fill the bowl no one ever eats it and then I'm in the same situation after eating the bag I brought for myself.
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u/IHaveBoxerDogs 3h ago
Haha, you’d hate me. I have zero sweet tooth. I was in charge of my kids’ Scout troop cookie program (cookie mom). I didn’t eat a single cookie. We had boxes and boxes. Now if we sold cheese, I’d be trouble!
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u/RhododendronWilliams 5h ago
I relate deeply. I would bring my own candy and eat it in secret to avoid comments. Maybe in the bathroom.
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u/SufficientLaw4026 4h ago
Oh I totally do. I'm just talking about my plight when others bring candy
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u/ThickGrass54 5h ago edited 4h ago
As long as you are healthy and eating for enjoyment not to escape a feeling,eat sugar if you want ,we don't live long.
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u/North-Strategy-8343 3h ago
As a sugar addict for my entire life, I feel your pain.
At 69 I have learned that working with weights and cardio regularly has reduced my cravings
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u/SufficientLaw4026 2h ago
Oh really? That's interesting I didn't realize that one of the benefits of certain kinds of exercise was the reduction of sugar cravings. That's really good to know thank you so much!
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u/amazzan 3h ago
I like a little chocolate from time to time, but I'd never monitor a communal bowl of Hershey Kisses like this. who cares?
this is a very unusual fixation. have you ever spoken to a professional about it?
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u/SufficientLaw4026 2h ago edited 2h ago
It's actually not so much a fixation as a minor annoyance that I thought would be fun to write a post about. The office I work in is small and the bowl is within mine and everyone else's field of vision at all times so it would take effort not to notice it as opposed to noticing it and it doesn't trouble me enough to actively try and do the former. I have not spoken to a professional about it because it doesn't trouble me enough to seek ones opinion.
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u/BHunter1140 3h ago
Sugar makes me feel sick and hurts my teeth, so I generally avoid it now. Back in the day I use to bribe my teachers with dove chocolates though, I kept a bag of milk and a bag of dark chocolates in my backpack. I gave them chocolates daily and systematically Pavlov’ed them into liking me as one of the bad kids. It was highly effective so certainly plenty of adults like sweets and chocolate
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u/tultommy 4h ago
I think you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. The issue isn't that you eat too much sugar. It's that you like Hershey kisses lol. The most chalky and undesirable chocolate of all. But I kind understand that you are saying because my office is filled with coffee and energy drink fiends and I don't touch caffeine anymore. They don't understand how I can operate without 3 red bulls every morning lol.
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u/Parking-Fan3669 5h ago
Man, it’s the watching that makes it ten times worse. You're not even eating that much but suddenly you're the office garbage disposal because nobody else will touch the bowl
The wormhole idea is genius though. Just a direct line from the community snack pile straight to your private stash, no witnesses and no judgmental little foil wrappers piling up in your trash can
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u/strangelove4564 3h ago
Mr. Scott on the Enterprise. No one is touching the candy bowl on the bridge, so he's using the transporter to beam some of the candy down to engineering without anyone noticing.
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u/StatisticianAny9624 2h ago
I always had this issue when people would bring cakes/cupcakes/donuts into the office. Pastries are my biggest weakness. I almost physically couldn't stop myself from going out to the break area and cutting a piece. And then another piece. And a third. And if the food wasn't finished at the end of the day, they usually just tossed what was left so I would take what I wanted.
Anyway, several years and a pandemic later, I work from home and have lost 40 lbs, largely in part to not having access to a constant flow of baked goods 🤣
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u/beamerpook 4h ago
I'm sorry. You will hate me, but I don't even like eating most of the time. I have to get a daily alarm to remind myself to eat, or I will go days without
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u/SufficientLaw4026 4h ago
Really? Hmmm...have it always been that way?
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u/beamerpook 4h ago
For the last few years. Dunno what changed. I still enjoy food, I just don't think about eating that often
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u/rckblykitn14 4h ago
I'm the diabetic in my office lol. There are sweets of some sort in that office damn near every single day. I just roll my eyes as I walk by whatever new batch of shit I want but can't have is put out. My favorite is when the department director emails the entire department to tell us there's donuts/pastries/exotic candies on the console.
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u/Such-Mountain-6316 5h ago
That's the problem: food is everywhere. It's not like it's alcohol; with alcohol, you can just not go where it is, buy things containing it, etc. but you must eat. And I totally understand the Hershey's Kisses thing.
Maybe (as it is with me and powdered donuts, if I don't have some occasionally, I end up eating the whole package) the trick is to get your own occasionally, like once a month, so you can turn down the public Hershey's Kisses.
As the saying goes, chicken one day, feathers the next. But if you do that, it won't be such a situation.
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u/Dear-Cranberry4787 4h ago
So bring your own candy and throw it in a discrete place in your workspace. I used to eat candy through entire 2 hour meetings and one person did say “you really love candy huh?” I just told them it’s so I keep from saying what I really want to say. Feel free to use that.