OK, so there is a coworker I work with, very nice person. Person knows that I drink tea and, every so often comes by and says "what kind of tea do you have?" always to be shortly followed by "oh, that one that sounds good, can I have some?" I purchase and keep a wide variety of tea, in my desk drawer, for personal consumption.
Now, where I come from, you don't just come around asking if you can have something of someone's unless they offer, or, unless you are friends. It wouldn't bother me if we in any way had a reciprocal relationship, where every once in a while person had something that I liked and they shared it with me. But they don't. Or even if we were anything like real "friends" - ie. ever spent more than 2 minutes talking to each other, having lunch, or otherwise had something over and above the basic cordial work friendship. But we don't.
I mean, should I walk around to all my coworkers and be like "Hey, Joe, I noticed you keep a some M&M's in your drawer. Can I have some?" "Hi Susan! I see you like to keep a case of bottled water under your desk. Can I have one?" "Hey Richard, you still got that jar of peanuts I saw you eating on Monday?" "Maria, hi! That lotion you used yesterday smelled great! Where is it? Can I use some?"
Am I wrong here?
I thought about taking all my tea home and being like "Nope, no tea. Sorry", but then I'd be denying myself. And, I think I've been over what a terribly compulsively honest person I am, I just couldn't lie. It wouldn't work.
It's just a peeve. I am so petty. OK. I'm going to just get over it now.
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If you want, I'll keep your tea at my desk so that it won't be a lie when you tell her you don't have any. :)
Fuck all of that. :) Tell her you got no tea, and offer to start a tea fund with her. Tell her you should both go in and buy a shit load of tea together. Or better yet, you should start going to her desk and asking her for tea.
People are like that. The best way is to have honest humor like
"Girl I went to store yesterday and meant to buy you some tea and I forgot."
Or make that bitch a basket of tea and tell her when it's empty she can just leave it on your desk and you'll fill it back up again.
Mention to her that your recently inherited a tea plantation, and while there is little in the way of residuals you'll have free tea for the rest of your life, and she should keep on coming over.
Start asking her over to your house for tea, on the weekend at 2pm sharp. Don't even invite her, just tell her you expect to see her on both saturday and sunday since she drinks so much with you during the week.
Just a note that person is not Ms. Moday. Even though she and I don't really hang out and don't have everything in common, I do consider her a friend; she'll come by and visit with me just for the sake of BS-ing, we'll lunch occasionally, etc. - basically, we're beyond the most basic cordial work "and how are you today?".
Unlike my relationship with person.
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