{"id":6605,"date":"2025-08-11T23:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:47:19","slug":"my-male-coworker-saw-my-lunch-one-day-and-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=6605","title":{"rendered":"My male coworker saw my lunch one day and asked,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cThat smells amazing. Any chance you could make me one?\u201d<\/em><br>I smiled and said,&nbsp;<em>\u201cSure. Just bring the container back clean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when I opened it, I gasped in horror. Inside was a note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cGet away from him. You\u2019re not safe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confused and a little shaken, I looked around the break room. Everything seemed normal. I didn\u2019t recognize the handwriting, but it clearly wasn\u2019t his. The note was tucked underneath the lid, almost like someone had slipped it in without him noticing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I debated saying something, but curiosity got the better of me. The next day, I casually asked him if anyone else had handled the container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He paused, then frowned.<br><em>\u201cNow that you mention it\u2026 my roommate grabbed it from the kitchen counter this morning while I was getting ready. Said he\u2019d drop it at my office since he was heading that way anyway.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My stomach turned. Who was this roommate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later that day, I got another note\u2014this time, slipped into my locker:<br><strong>\u201cHe\u2019s not who he says he is. Check the basement of 42 Elmridge Street.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had never felt fear quite like that before. But something inside me needed answers. I had to know what this was about\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat smells amazing. Any chance you could make me one?\u201dI smiled and said,&nbsp;\u201cSure. Just bring the container back clean.\u201d He did. But when I opened it, I&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}