I swear I can eat 2-3 lunches a week for free just on leftover food from meetings. In fact I can probably get some dinners covered this way also.

It's always useful to learn to live off the land.

someone's completely infringing on your personal space, you can bag-check them, hard. It's very satisfying.

On planes, I try shifting around and sighing audibly, but apparently passive-aggressiveness doesn't work on some people.

There is no need for legs to be pressed up against on a plane.

Oh wait, do you mean in the ass/thigh area? Then it can be unavoidable. So then let's focus on the no jiggling. COME ON PEOPLE.

After every event involving food, my firm sends out an office wide email saying telling people to come help themselves. Sometimes they even supply take home containers

Speaking for those with bad hips/backs, holding your legs away from someone else in close quarters can result in significant pain. Sometimes it seems a good idea to apologize, sometimes it seems a good idea to ignore the entire situation, depending on how it seems your neighbor will react.

After every event involving food, my firm sends out an office wide email saying telling people to come help themselves. Sometimes they even supply take home containers

One of my first jobs out of college, I had to arrange for lunches for a lot of meetings. It was a software firm, and I usually had to station myself at the table outside the conference room to protect the lunches from the vultures.

On the other hand, I always made sure to order an extra lunch or two, just to make sure there was enough food to go around. Ahem.

My desk at my old office was next to two conference rooms. People would start hovering around 1pm looking for leftovers even though everyone knows that leftovers go to the kitchen before they are available.

Connie has it right - vultures. I just made friends with the Admins who handled the lunches and they would let me know if/when there were leftovers.

At my old office, we were split between floors - 5,6 and 29. Those of us on 29 never got any conference room leftovers!

Dang, my lunch was good.

Sauteed TJ's frozen green beans (haricot vertes style) in olive oil and butter and minced garlic, adding some red bell pepper for contrasting color and texture, slivered almonds, diced ham, a little soy sauce for salty and a little balsamic vinegar for tang.

Mostly green stuff, salty tangy crunchy with protein! So good. I ate a whole panful. I make this pretty often without the ham, but sometimes the ham and the green beans want to be together.

Gallery of cute lunches that Heather makes for her son

They are more impressive than I thought they'd be....