Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Happened in middle school. I used to bring lunch from home (my school did not have a lunch program). During one of the classes, a friend of mine began stealing my sandwich. No one owned up to the theft. Then I had an idea, I prepared my sandwich with the hottest available pepper (short of Naga chilli), and took it in class the next day. Lo behold, I found my two pesky friends desperately looking for water bottles. The theft of sandwich stopped after it. But I always wondered if I was TA.