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What have your 'friends' stolen off you?

41 replies

Pickles89 · 08/07/2020 08:22

Inspired by another thread. I'm thinking most of us have been burned one time or another! I no longer lend my friends things (to be fair nobody has asked since adulthood!) but as a teen I had one friend borrow a bunch of books, only to return about a third of them (she came from a kleptomanic family - her mum stole from my mum, her brother from my brother - it would have been funny if not so disturbing!) and another kept hold of my DVD of 'The Wedding Planner' despite my repeatedly asking for it back.

What about you guys?

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OverTheRainbow88 · 08/07/2020 14:08

Nothing!!!

Maybe my healthy liver!

megrichardson · 08/07/2020 14:17

When I was a young mum, many years ago, a new neighbour moved into a flat along to the corridor to me. I invited her in for a cup of tea and after she had gone, I noticed that my eternity ring was missing from beside the sink where I had left it. I had no proof but I knew she had stolen it. It taught me to be more careful about who I befriended.

Purplephonecover · 08/07/2020 14:23

My favourite grey jumper, she visited wearing it on Saturday

CuriousaboutSamphire · 08/07/2020 15:52

Yes Summer I know. I was 11 years old and in the middle of about 30 kids, jeering, pushing me round and round and chanting daft shit at me and I lashed out.

I can't remember now if I aimed for her. But I did connect.

If it helps just teach your kids not to be mean because one day they may push someone too far and, fair or not, they'll get hurt!

Scrumpyjacks · 08/07/2020 16:05

I was accused of stealing from a friends money box once. She told her mum I'd taken a fiver and when I insisted I hadn't, her mum said she had memorised the number on the side of the £5 note so she knew it was her daughters. It was awful because I really hadn't taken anything, I had a £5 note to go to the shop with from my mum! In the end the mum took the money out of my hand and I went home and told my mum what had happened. It was a harsh lesson to learn that people arnt always truthful.

BeanbagMcTavish · 08/07/2020 16:07

Well if I had to be the parent of either Samphire or her "friend" in that situation... I'd rather be Samphire's parent. I'd be a lot less ashamed of that!

SonjaHeniesTutu · 08/07/2020 16:35

I was about 11 and had to get braces. WIth braces you can't chew gum, and bubble gum was a massive treat for me in those days. Everytime someone gave me a piece, I hid it away in these wicker nesting baskets to save for the day that I finally got my braces removed. The nesting baskets were tightly fitted and there were about five of them and the gum was hidden in the small innermost basket.

I came home one day to discover the basket tops and bottoms strewn all over the house. They had each been carefully (not damaged at all) opened, and all the gum (lots of gumSad) had been eaten, every single piece complete with wrappers.

My usually trustworthy wonderful sweet (man's best friendHmm) DDog had enjoyed them thoroughly.Grin

allmycats · 08/07/2020 16:43

I let a friend who I worked with borrowed my nearly new sewing machine. When it came back all the extra 'feet' were missing from their box section in the machine. She insisted they had never been there, later I found out that she had bought a 2nd hand version of the same machine. Karma got her later when she was sacked for canvassing which of the customers would follow her to a new venture

MsEllany · 08/07/2020 17:03

This will out me to family members as it’s a tale my mum tells often Grin

I was about 3 and mum had invited some friends over with their children - a couple of other three year olds and at least one older at about 5 or six. We were all playing upstairs, unbeknownst to mum in her make up Grin. Anyway, after we were all cleaned up and the others went home, mum realised some of her jewellery was missing, some large rings. Luckily when mum rang round one of the other mums found them and brought them back but mum was quite upset thinking rings that belonged to her mum had been pinched.

Mine is quite horrible. And long Grin

When I turned 21, mum bought me a watch. I wore it one evening round a friends house and forgot to put it on in the morning. I could never be sure I left it there, until about a year later when I was out with a different friend. She told me that L had confessed she’d stolen my watch as pay back for stealing her bra and a skirt. She was about a size 6 whereas I was a 12, she was an A cup and I was at least a FF at that point so it would have been completely pointless. Plus, I’d actually borrowed a pyjama top once which I washed at the laundrette and returned by taking a bus to make sure she had it, so unlikely I’d have kept clothes that didn’t fit.

I was so upset. She was in prison at that point (for assault of some description) so I never got it back. I didn’t see much of the other friend after either as she was the type to pit friends against each other and start scraps. I have no doubt she only told me because she thought it would cause an argument. In fact now I think about it she might even have made it up.

IwishIhadaMargarita · 08/07/2020 18:09

At school a boy stole a small Magnet From my coat cost in the cloakroom. He must have gone through my pocket to get it. I told the teacher but had no proof, he was a known little scrote though. She eventually snatched it from him and handed it to me as she said his story had changed several times and mine was consistent.

35andThriving · 11/07/2020 10:07

I've only had a few books / dvds not returned after lending them out.

35andThriving · 11/07/2020 10:15

However, my mum was accused of stealing some purfume from a friend's house once (wrongly), and some cousins rang us to ask if we'd taken their Gameboy once.

Our dad was shouting and screaming at us about stealing, and then they rang back to say they'd found it.

OverTheRainbow88 · 11/07/2020 12:02

Oh once my 3 year old was invited at a friends to play for the first time... once we got home he took out a 2p coin from his pocket which he took as wanted to fill up his piggy bank!! I returned it, was quite embarrassing!!

Mummytonicekids · 12/07/2020 09:34

In my early twenties I rented a room in a family home briefly. The teen daughter stole my black flip flops that I got free with a magazine 😂 worth nothing.

At another property the lady who owned the house was my age ( about 21-22) and I’m sure owned the house for tax purposes ( I rented through her dad/ stepmum) she had bi polar and has massive mood swings and I got accused of stealing her strawberry teabags and also stealing her wipes and tampons and blocking the loo 😂 it was very strange and I was glad to leave when the family were forced to sell.

Boomerwang · 12/07/2020 10:16

I had a brand new walkman stolen. It was my own fault as I had used it in front of people I didn't know who were 'friends' of my boyfriend, at his parents' house. I stayed overnight and the next day discovered my walkman was missing from my bag. I knew right away who it was because she had shown so much interest in it. I was naive and hadn't ever hung around with people from that area so I had felt no need to protect my things.

Many months later I was walking in the same area when she and a bunch of other females saw me. She came over and was clearly off her head on something. I found it all very threatening so to my shame I denied ever accusing her of the theft and hurried off down the road. I never went back to that area again. (Marston Green, Birmingham)

Alwaysinpain · 12/07/2020 10:46

@BananaChocolateLump I also lived in a hostel at 16 years old. I know exactly what you mean! Thanks

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