O/T - mini creme eggs
I don't have a smoking story cos I don't smoke so thought I would post this instead.

I'm leaving here next week and one of my colleagues has just given me a tube of mini Creme Eggs as a goodbye present - what a poppet.

However I'm trying very hard to shift the lard so I won't be eating them but I'll have to take them home so she won't be offended.

So I thought I might give them away, by hiding them in the old cemetery opposite my flat (it's the sort of very very old cemetery everyone tracks through) for lucky passers-by to find.

If you, dear reader, found a tiny mini-egg with a nice note attached (with a cocktail stick, so it looks like a little egg-boat) saying If You Enjoy This Easter Treat, Please Do Something Nice for Someone Else Today, would you:
a. Be a bit freaked and leave it alone in case Dom Joly jumps out at you with a film crew?
b. Do as it says?
or c. Gobble it up and then start looking for others?

Answers on a postcard please, this qotw is really crap.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:51, 25 replies)

well
I would think it lovely, but I might not eat it in case it had been laced with poison. (That's just because I love random loveliness but am also cynically suspicious/paranoid.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:54, closed)

Aaaawww...
What a lovely thing to do.

I'd go with (b), I think.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:54, closed)

@chcb
What if it came with a disclaimer? You know - "this egg is pure and good and not laced with poison" - written in tiny letters at the bottom of the note?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:57, closed)

I'm with CHCB
My first thought would be that it was some sort of sick trap were I to find it in a cemetery!

Why not offer them to Big Issue sellers on the way home or something?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 10:59, closed)

too good to be true
there must be a catch - free mini eggs?

A wonderful idea, but would send my paranoia sky high.

(although eating a "glowing" E i found on the dancefloor was a great thing to do. one of the best i ever had)
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:00, closed)

I'd have to go with
None of the above, so:

d) Take it to give to someone else.

If they eat it and are fine then I get karma for giving chocolate to people. If they die in choking twisting agony, at least it wasn't me.
( Cawl, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:00, closed)

...
Or just give them to the first stranger to take your fancy on the way home. Maybe a kiddiwink. Or a woman in a burqa. She'd love to be wished a happy easter, I'm sure.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:02, closed)

^
Yes! Feed it to a child. Their small bodies would probably feel the effects of the poison faster, so you'd know.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:04, closed)

huh
I can't believe you're all so paranoid!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:05, closed)

what?
I can't give them directly to a child! I'll get arrested!
(and then asked for more)
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:05, closed)

Arrested?
Why?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:10, closed)

oh come on
I don't know any children and there's no way I'm going up to one I don't know and offering it sweets, even if I am a girl.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:15, closed)

@HLT
You'd probably be OK, so long as you don't mention puppies.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:17, closed)

I've toyed with the idea of leaving books on park benches

So others may enjoy as once I've read a book I can't really re-read it, what with all the surprises/plot ruined.

However I fear people or the weather would destroy my novels :(
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:20, closed)

Go with Enzyme's suggestion
Give it to a woman in a burqa - I'm sure she'd appreciate the kindness of another woman approaching her with a gift and recognising her as a member of society. Her religion shouldn't stop her from taking it - even if Easter is a (sort of) Christian festival. I've gone to a Muslim family at the end of Ramadan to celebrate - and I was a stranger.

And also it's nicely twisted.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:22, closed)

what K2k6 said
it's probably best not to show them your puppies.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:22, closed)

@ Dirtyweekender
Try this -

www.bookcrossing.com/

I'm a member and have been for a few years but I've never managed to part with a book yet...although I have some crap ones which won't sell on Amazon...maybe that's the way to get rid of them...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:24, closed)

18 replies?
Well, the record seems to be 263. Wonder if we'll make it?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:26, closed)

@chickenlady
Lovely idea. However women in burqas are few and far between where I live... in fact I can't remember ever seeing one in my town!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:28, closed)

@Enzyme
if we don't it'll be a bit of an anticlimax.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:28, closed)

^^
Speechless...

Goes off for a fag.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:30, closed)

@ Enzyme
That will only happen should someone introduce wanking...

So, should I give the eggs away or keep them for after my 4pm self-love?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:32, closed)

^Hahhhhha
How do you like your mini eggs?
Unfertilised.

Hahaa.
(I am easily amused.)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:35, closed)

^^ So bad
Yet so good...
( Cawl, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 12:05, closed)

ha
This is all academic now, since I succumbed to a greedy spell and ate them...
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 16:57, closed)