To have shouted at this person for taking more than 2 apples from my box of apples outside my

[BigRedBall]

I have an apple tree in my garden which grows nice big cooking apples. We just moved here and I thought it would be nice to put a box outside our house for neighbours.

Anyway, I put a sign up saying "free to take, 2 per person" so all our neighbours got some.

I just saw a man come in a car and was piling up a tesco bag full of my apples and taking them to his boot.

I went running outside and asked him what he thought he was doing and to put them back. He looked at me and said it says free apples. I told him it's 2 per person. He just ignored me and sat in his car and drove off.

Now my box of apples is empty and some person who doesn't even live on my road has taken them all. I'm really not happy.

Why would someone do this? AIBU?

What a fun thread! It is nice to know that while some of us are working hard to do things out there in the real world, someone in here has the time to worry about someone taking more than TWO free apples!

It's these details of running the world that count. Clearly the rest of us are just not trying hard enough to see what's important

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You rascal

Well, this thread made me realize I need to buck up my priorities. I'd better stop educamating the country's young adults, and take photos of reg plates and horses instead. And count apples, of course. That should be my TOP priority. Otherwise my neighbours may think I'm an uncaring ungenerous citizen, who doesn't care about them.

Well up....better late than never eh? That's what I say.

hang on whats a glut? ive not heard of a glut and im quite country.intreguing.

A glut is when you've far too much of something, for example, if you planted a couple of apple trees for personal use and they produced far more apples than you could possibly use before they went off, that would be a glut of apples.

My husband sowed a whole packet of basil seeds, in the hope I'd have enough fresh basil to not need to buy any, and we ended up with approx (lost count tbh) 537,896 large basil plants!

I want to live somewhere I could get free apples!

It is a really funny thread, if it cheers up somebody, its done it's job IMO

You sure they aren't crab apples he sounds rather shellfish

Ba boom boom tssshhhh

oh a glut! I see! I thought it was some kind of vegetable id not heard of! It didnt sound very nice, something like sloes which I think sound horrible.

Only 2 free apples Stripeybanana, steady.

This thread has made me paranoid about fruit. I was worried id get shouted out this morning when the gentleman opposite came out of his house as I walked my dog and was giving my ds blackberries from the bushes down the street. We do it everyday and now i worry we must be annoying the neighbours for taking the best!

Oh dear OP you are getting a good thumping for this thread and are taking it rather well considering.

You do sound a bit daft though, probably in a nice way I'd like to think. Lady bountiful with her lovely big apples...actually that sounds quite saucy. (Apple sauce anyone?)

Bless you.

Generosity is generosity even when people take advantage, so fret not. Its the thought that counts.

But you are right on one thing - an apple crumble should have a filling/topping ratio of 1:4 respectively. Its a jolly good excuse to eat a shedload of butter sugar and flour mashed up and baked, with lashings of custard, with the convenient disclaimer that its one of your 5 a day.

My ex dp had a green Volvo (or was it an Audi) he was a selfish entitled twat too