Just curious, what do you think?

[scfr]

I only take in to work what I want the people at work to eat. In other words, I don't expect to bring any of the food home. But I do expect my food containers to be left for me to bring home!
Potlucks are different. From an office potluck, I did bring food home (after asking around if anyone wanted to take some).
At a work potluck at a colleague's home, I offered to leave the remains of the tart I brought with the hostess; she politely said "but what about your hubby" and the conclusion was that I took one slice home for my husband and left the rest for her and her children who were coming home from college and bringing friends.

Since your husband's office is small, I think it would have been acceptable to have had your husband take a half-cake (leaving the other half at home for the kids). Maybe cupcakes next time?

[Gailete]

I think it depends on the type of office. Although when I worked in a hospital as a nurse, we would get food sent to the unit especially around the holidays. 1st shift would have decimated all of it before 2nd and 3rd shift had a chance of a nibble or we would find crumbs. Doctors that we wanted to kiss would send in three identical platters labeled 1st shift, then second and then 3rd. So that was fair. But in the office that I last worked at, we took home leftovers of what we brought although some that didn't want to would offer it up to the others. A bakery made cake for a birthday or shower type party at work got sent home with the recipient. What is weird is how these things get worked out at family get-togethers. For a couple of years, for some reason unknown to the rest of us our niece would invite her friends and her husband to our FAMILY get-togethers. They would come eat our food and would bring maybe a loaf of bread that wouldn't even get set out and when they left they took their bread with them. My mom thought that they should at least have left the loaf of bread. Eventually, they stopped showing up, but it did irritate my mom who was hosting the party. My problem was one set of nieces and a nephew that would bring ziplock bags to my house when I had a Christmas open house with lots of homemade goodies. They would be trying to fill the bags to take the goodies/candies home plus what they were stuffing their faces with, without asking and way before the party was over. I would make them replace everything that they were trying to take away with them. Unfortunately, their behavior was condoned by their mom, once I overheard her telling them what to do.

Over the years and in many situations I have seen variations on a theme. At a camp, I was at one day when I was in my early 20's and so was another girl my age, she thought nothing of going into the other counselor's room and if she had a candy bar laying around, would take it and eat it! Some folks just have no manners. If in doubt, ask what the rules are!

Glad you got your carrier back!

[LivingAlmostLarge]

bring carrier leave cake. The cake was for office to finish off.