to take a small plastic knob to replace my broken one

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Have a Smeg cooker and one of the tiny black timer buttons has broken (there are four in total). Smeg replacement buttons are extortionately priced. Comet have Smeg cookers on display that have the same buttons. Would I be wrong to take one (they just pull off). One cooker already has one missing so someone has obviously had the same idea. Don't want karma to comeround and bite my arse!

Do it. Lol

No it's stealing , what would happen if everyone thought they could just take one small thing.

I did this once in Ikea

Do you know what, your thread title has an entirely different and, ahem, interesting interpretation if your mind is in the gutter.

Not saying mine is. Just saying there are two ways to look at it!!!!!!

I'm not saying its right, but I'd be tempted

just call Smeg customer services and ask them to send you one (or a couple for spares). May cost you a few pennies but in my experience, if cooker is a recent purchase they will send them out FOC.

You will feel much better and be able to sleep the sleep of the just.

It's the wrong thing to do and you know that. How much is the button usually? £10 and under I'd pay for a new one, you know SMEG is a high quality brand and the parts will reflect that brand. Over £10 I'd be getting my balaclava out.

YABU, it's stealing. Keep your hands off knobs that aren't yours!

Just imagine the shame if you got caught and they pressed charges...

(Babybythesea, I thought the exact same thing!)

I nicked one of those weeny ball bearings that make the main ballbearing work in a mouse from PCWorld. cough

You can see the headlines now: Woman arrested for stealing small plastic knob

OP, you know it's wrong, I know it's wrong, but I would do it.

this happens where I work all the time and it pisses me off

we have to pay for replacements

people don't order them because they think they are poor quality so we lose sales

I have taken to using suerglue to stop people STEALING them!

"Comet Share Prices Plummet after Spate of Knob Nicking"

That will teach you to handle your knob more carefully in future!

In the meantime don't do something so silly as to take a knob that doesn't belong to you. It will never feel quite your own IYGWIM

Do it if your integrity is only worth £10 to you

I'd do it and nick another one as a spare, a woman can never have too many knobs IME

woman gets stuck to knob in shop with superglue

I have jjust found the smeg site for parts and buttons were 1.90p Op which model cooker do you have and which buttons do you need to replace - I am sure someone could find you a legit button to have from ebay or the like cheaper.

Comet would steal your knob if you could.

if it could, even.

Sorry, it's that time of night - I saw knob and smeg and giggled.

I have nothing of worth to add.

I wouldn't do it on principle. I would however get drunk and do it for the headlines

I would.

You shouldn't pinch knobs in public, it's a bad habit and only leads to further naughtiness...