AIBU?? Finders Keepers???

[mummaduke]

DH comes home tonight, asks me to collect his dry cleaning on Monday.

No problem, what has he to collect?

'Oh, my jacket and anew raincoat I found on the way home'

Erm... Where did you find it?

'On the rack above my seat'

So someone forgot it?

'I guess, but they didn't come looking for it'

AIBU to think my DH is an utter twunt to think that this is acceptable???

I've made it very clear I expect him to report it and take it to lost property at the station on Monday morning.

Seriously, this is not ok is it???

No. He stole it. Wtf for?? Take it to the station lost property.

He sounds an asshole. At least some one has had their coat dry cleaned for them.

Not good at all, it's technically theft. The idiot!

No idea!! It's not as if he is shirt of coats, or money if he wanted a new one.

I can't quite believe my DH would do this?!

*short of coats

Yanba, he is a thief, but the fact that he dry cleaned someone else's jacket, and now he has to take it back to lost property is making me laugh. Make sure you don't pay for the dry cleaning!

It was the last stop, no one claimed it. Aaaaarrgghh he's so stupid.

He'll definitely be paying for the dry cleaning bill, picking it up, and returning it to lost property.

Seriously, wtaf!!!

It depends on the fit.

If you hand it in to lost property it'll probably just sit there for however many years they leave it before passing it on, he's got it now he may as well keep it.

What are you going to do if he doesn't do as he's told?

You're posting as though he was involved in a diamond heist

It was an unclaimed coat at the last stop.

I once left my favourite coat on the train - I asked at Lost Property, but it hadn't been handed in. I think the person who kept my coat was pretty despicable, and I think you are brilliant for making him hand the coat back!

I just think it's really off!!

I'd like to think most decent people would hand it in, or to the guard. Simple.

But no, DH not only claims it for himself, but obviously likes it enough to have taken it to the dry cleaners on his way home (he never does this)!

Not a diamond heist... But not decent either, no?

Erm agent it's still theft. I've witnessed a friend today on the phone to numerous people trying to track down an item she thinks she left on a train. Just because someone hadn't claimed it then and there doesn't mean someone isn't looking for it. I would be pretty pissed if it was me. It may have been expensive. It's theft, petty but still theft!

Exactly! It's probably a much loved/valued coat that someone is hoping will be handed in...

In fact, DH once left my maternity notes on the train. Not that they had any value, but we were certainly dependant on the good nature of someone to hand them in.

I just thought he was better than that

HIBU - if he liked it that much, then why not buy himself on the same rather than steal someone else's?

I found a ring when I was out with the DDs a year or so ago, and as I walked DD2 along the wall outside the police station (going to hand the ring in) she came across over a tenners worth of pound coins (pisshead must have leant back on the wall and it had fallen out of his their pocket )

So we just handed it all in and got it back 6 weeks/whatever it is later.

I'm not saying you shouldn't hand things in, and I would have handed the coat on if I'd have found it, but the outrage in the OP and OPs other posts are just a bit OTT IMO.

It's like she's just found out he's got a gambling habit and lost the house or has deliberately trampled on a kitten.

I think it's more surprise at her husband doing something that she would never have thought was in his nature to be honest (although, judging by your other thread, I gather you may be a little more 'mellow' than most tonight Agent!).

Of course he's not as bad as a kitten trampler. But, I think he's been a bit of a pillock and I expected better. Not impressed, so I told him so. He can't see the issue... That is all.

The Bev thread DoJo?

Any bevs I've had haven't changed how I see this, maybe I see it as less black and white than mumm? Knowing someone kept a coat they'd found on a train wouldn't change the way I saw them, I wouldn't see them as devious or a thief.

I'd probably encourage them to hand it in, but the way mumm said 'I've made it very clear I expect him to report it and take it to lost property at the station on Monday morning' just made me a bit and what if he doesn't, will she sit him on the naughty step?

I once forgot my dd's new raincoat on a train. We went to the lost property office day after day hoping it would be handed in but it wasn't. I didn't have money to buy her another new raincoat that season. Somebody like your DH obviously found it and took it home to their dc.