# Holy shit I’m bourgeois—I’m pissed off because our nanny stole my Scotch **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922 "2015-12-20T14:37:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/1 "2015-12-20T14:37:05Z")
Fuck me. I had an inkling that our (former) nanny was helping herself to my Scotch, but turned an optimistic blind eye. But what the fuck? At any time I’ll have five or six single malts on the bar: the standards (Macallan, Glenfiddich, etc.), something more peaty, something a bit lighter, and one or two higher-end blends (e.g. something from Compass Box). Nothing too out of the ordinary—most are the basic 12s, though a few a bit older from time to time. I also like to play around a bit, as in keep three Glenmorangies of the same age but different casks to give an idea of how wood affects flavour. Again, nothing you won’t easily find. I do drop a hundred or more on a single bottle once in a great while, but it lasts for months. There were signs, but they overlooked through benefit-of-the-doubt extensions that would make even Barnum wince. Signs like uncharacteristically small amounts left (I just finish a bottle rather than leave a half-shot in there) and mysteriously dwindling levels (I thought we had way more of that?). But meh. I didn’t begrudge her per se. Shit, half the reason I keep a well-rounded bar is because I love sharing. The sneakiness and whatnot bothered me more so than anything. But enough. A line of blatancy has been crossed. Down in the basement I kept a small box of 30 or so nipper bottles of The Glenlivet 18—my airplane stash. Three or four in a carry-on breeze through security, and I’ve been noticed a couple times but never hassled by flight attendants. Stupid expensive way to buy it on the ground, but they’re about the same as what the airlines charge for a Johnny Red. Yes, I could probably buy a regular bottle and fill empty nippers, but that’s a giant pain in the ass. We’re heading from New York out to Colorado for three nights of String Cheese Incident over New Years. I’m packing our shipping box (there’s another bourgeois concept. Screw lugging luggage around and waiting in more lines. We pack everything from glasses to a Keurig to all our clothes/toiletries and ship UPS before our flight. Now with baggage fees it’s about the same cost, and the time-savings is phenomenal), and go to add in a few bottles for the return flight. There are three in the box. Three. There were about thirty. Now there were three. Really? Not content with skimming a bit here and there off the top, you go and take individual bottles? Make the effort to hide/dispose of the empties? And you do so thinking that I wouldn’t notice a store going from thirty to three? What, do you think I’m a bigger idiot than you are? That’s dirtbag territory, not bored sneaking. No, not dirtbag. Depressing. Sad. Pitiful. You’re fifty-something and steal for _this_? So you saved yourself, what, sixty to seventy bucks? You could have worked a day and had enough left over for a lonely TV dinner for one, you biddy. Now you’ve killed the goose that laid the golden elixir. So in this case the worst insult, the worst curse I can think of to throw at you is simple: be yourself. Exist in the thin shell of a human being you’ve plastered together. Be aware of your own reality and realize you’re forever trapped in a grey world of mediocrity. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/2 "2015-12-20T14:52:00Z")
Don’t be so upset. Just have the butler go and get some more! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/3 "2015-12-20T15:11:11Z")
Your nanny sounds like a drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/4 "2015-12-20T15:29:15Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Be aware of your own reality and realize you’re forever trapped in a grey world of mediocrity. They grey world of mediocrity isn’t really _that_ bad. One does learn to cope. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/5 "2015-12-20T15:53:26Z")
> [@Mr.Nylock](#): > > They grey world of mediocrity isn’t really _that_ bad. One does learn to cope. Especially given enough Scotch. OTOH now I am now picturing OP making the discovery while garbed in full Edwardian house dress, their monocle popping and their pipe bouncing on the parquet flooring.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/6 "2015-12-20T16:20:16Z")
And you’re certain it wasn’t your kid taking the scotch? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/7 "2015-12-20T16:27:59Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Your nanny sounds like a drunk. Seriously, I think the concern would be about a drunken nanny taking care of the children. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/8 "2015-12-20T16:34:48Z")
Psst! I saw your chauffeur driving one of your Bentleys, but you didn’t hear it from me! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/9 "2015-12-20T16:54:39Z")
**Holy shit I’m bourgeois—I’m pissed off because our nanny stole my Scotch** How dare she while our boys are dying in the trenches! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/10 "2015-12-20T17:01:08Z")
Obviously your kid(s) are driving the nanny to drink. Or maybe she was dumping scotch in their chocolate milk to keep them quiet? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/11 "2015-12-20T17:02:13Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And you’re certain it wasn’t your kid taking the scotch? I remember this one! Edward Herrman (of course) played the dad and Sigorney Weaver the mom, and it was based on a John Cheever story. ---
**Author:** ![Bonaventure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Bonaventure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonaventure)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/12 "2015-12-20T17:49:14Z")
So just to clarify: nanny drinking on the job, okay. Nanny taking your $20 airplane stash, not okay. Why do I have a feeling we’ll be getting a new thread in six months about more scotch gone missing? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/13 "2015-12-20T18:00:51Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Don’t be so upset. Just have the butler go and get some more! But tell him to take the Mercedes, not the Maybach. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/14 "2015-12-20T19:00:52Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Your nanny sounds like a drunk. A mug full of whiskey helps the medicine go down. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/15 "2015-12-20T19:25:37Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > A mug full of whiskey helps the medicine go down. In the most delightful way! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/16 "2015-12-20T20:05:13Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Seriously, I think the concern would be about a drunken nanny taking care of the children. Eh, the resume said she was good with tots. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/17 "2015-12-20T20:16:18Z")
Shooper…cafi…calfi…religes…rexafrrfle…alllashoshes…doosheszzzzzzzzzzz ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/18 "2015-12-20T20:20:19Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > We’re heading from New York out to Colorado for three nights of String Cheese Incident over New Years. Are you sure you didn’t drink it? _[Possibly while high](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euGVZA_zZe0)_? 😃 And you’re sure that no teenagers have been in the house? Otherwise, sounds like she has a problem that needs treatment. It’s not your problem though, fire her. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/19 "2015-12-20T20:33:10Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Shooper…cafi…calfi…religes…rexafrrfle…alllashoshes…doosheszzzzzzzzzzz I’m practically pickled in every way. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922/20 "2015-12-20T20:39:23Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Are you sure you didn’t drink it?.. > > And you’re sure that no teenagers have been in the house? Otherwise, sounds like she has a problem that needs treatment. It’s not your problem though, fire her. And you’re sure that no teenagers have been in the house? Otherwise, sounds like she has a problem that needs treatment. It’s not your problem though, [del]fire[/del] bang her, then fire her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-i-m-bourgeois-i-m-pissed-off-because-our-nanny-stole-my-scotch/740922.md?page=2)