Thank goodness for cake in the breakroom!

I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon, so packed myself a theoretically yummy lunch to eat at my desk; a Morrocan vegetarian stew (frozen dinner, packaged under the Moosewood name), yogurt, corn and black bean chips, and a Coke Zero.

When I got in, I pretty quickly went to the breakroom to put my lunch away and heat up my breakfast oatmeal.

Then, an hour or so later, I walked by the breakroom and saw what looked to be a real, homemade chocolate cake (note: Like a good Southerner, I consider chocolate cake to be yellow cake with chocolate icing. Chocolate cake and chocolate icing is Devil's Food Cake. Sadly, I've not managed to pass this along to my children).

Now, it was only about 9:30 am when I saw the cake; way too early in my world for chocolate. But, even BAD food tends to disappear from our breakroom quickly; good food is gone in seconds. And there wasn't much cake left.

So, I cut myself a small slice to have later, and took it back to my desk.

Lunchtime came around, and I went to the breakroom (cake was LONG since gone), got my Morrocan veggie stew out of the freezer, and zapped it, then went back to my desk. Sadly, the stew was very, very watery, but I had some individual servings of brown rice in my desk, so I went BACK to the breakroom to zap one of those.

Rice in hand, I came back to my desk, mixed it with the stew, sat down to eat, and suddenly realized that I hadn't gotten the rest of my lunch.

So, I went BACK to the break room (3rd time), opened the fridge ....

And no lunch!

I opened the other fridge. No lunch there, either.

Now, lunches have been known to disappear from work fridges before, but lets be honest; all that was in this one was a Coke Zero, a bag of corn chips, and a raspberry yogurt. Not exciting, plus I work with nice folks; I really didn't think someone would take it.

But it wasn't there!

Finally, I looked on the counter NEXT to the fridges. Yep, there it was. The Coke and chips were fine, but after sitting out for 4 hours I didn't think I'd better risk the yogurt. Which, had it not been for the cake I'd picked up earlier, would've meant no dessert to my lunch!

Thank goodness for found cake!