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To think cinema guy stole my £1!

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TheUnicorns · 12/03/2017 01:57

Not so much of an AIBU but a WWYD

This evening I went to the cinema. I had £1.90 exactly in my purse, I remember being peeved that I was 10p short for a parking ticket so paid by phone instead.

Saw the film, bag placed on floor. Had some food in the bag so I'm assuming at some point either my purse fell out or I absentmindedly removed it to get to something.

Leave the cinema, go to a shop. Realise I don't have purse. Go back to cinema, find a guy who works there and he finishes my sentence as I ask if he's found a purse anywhere. I get it back and check my cards are there but not the change section, which is zipped.

I go back to the shop and pick up £1.90 worth of goods. Get to till and just hand her all the coins in my purse because I know exactly how much is in there.

Except there isn't, woman behind the till says there's only 90p there. I am mortified, have no other method of payment on me (previously mentioned cards are unused bank accounts so no money) - lovely man behind me gives me the pound. I'm very grateful and leave quickly, red faced.

Am I right in thinking that the guy who found and returned the purse nicked my £1?! And what do I do, on one hand it's only £1 but on the other nobody should be taking anything from anyone's purse?!

OP posts:
Happyandhungry · 12/03/2017 08:40

Why don't you have a debit card? Everyone is entitled to a basic bank account now even people currently bankrupt and most of them are even contactless too. So get one and stop being odd about a quid.

Whatthefreakinwhatnow · 12/03/2017 08:42

Why are you even still thinking about this, it's a bloody pound!

Be grateful you got your purse back and get over it! Jeez! Confused

pillowcase6 · 12/03/2017 08:43

I also vote that it was THE SAME POUND. Just to make some sense of this tragedy.

Chloe84 · 12/03/2017 08:46

Why are you laughing your arse off at sycamore 's sensible post, OP?

You lost the fucking pound. Get over it. FFS! You didn't even lose out, the man in the shop lost out because you didn't check how much money you had before going to the till. The arrogance of people who can't believe that sometimes things get lost.

Trollspoopglitter · 12/03/2017 08:51

I also don't get the non working cards yet going to the cinema - if my cards weren't working, and I had ten quid, I wouldn't go to the cinema and be left with 1.90 for my food. If I booked the cinema online, I paid with a card. So your cards work.

insancerre · 12/03/2017 08:51

It's a shame we don't know who the man in the shop is
We could do crowdfunding to pay him back

Bubbinsmakesthree · 12/03/2017 08:52

I once left my Iphone at the cinema - the following morning we tracked its location so I headed back to the cinema confident I would find it down the side of the seat or on the floor. The cinema manager checked their CCTV and confirmed where I was sitting and that he could see me using my phone before the film started. We looked everywhere - practically took the seat apart. Nothing.

Meanwhile DH had been at home and looked at the tracking again and seen the phone was moving - he tracked it half way across London before it ran out of battery.

When we told the cinema manager that it appeared someone (it could only have been a member of staff in the screen at that time) had taken the phone he suddenly got much less helpful.

I couldn't prove anything so had to chalk it up to experience.

Be grateful it was only £1 OP!

OdeToAutumn · 12/03/2017 08:53

Stop thinking about it. The only person who is £1 down right now is the bloke behind you in the queue.

The80sweregreat · 12/03/2017 08:54

YABU, I would be trying to track down the man that came to your rescue when you were short for the goods you wanted to buy! Or just grateful i got the purse back, with the cards and that someone was willing to help out and you didnt have to put the goods back! A £1 is a £1, it could have been 20 pounds plus all the cards to cancel and re-apply for - that would have had alarm bells ringing for me. It probably fell out the purse or you didnt have it in the first place. It could have all been a lot worse!

insancerre · 12/03/2017 08:56

You should be kicking yourself, you've missed a trick
You should have imagined you had a £2 coin
You could have got more free shopping

Bluntness100 · 12/03/2017 08:59

I think that if you had real financial problems, were skint and needed that pound I can see why someone would be bothered by losing it. However that wouldn't be the person who goes to the cinema, pays a couple of quid in parking and buys stuff in the shop after. Spending exactly 1.90 when that's what you have in your purse is a bit weird.

All in a bit strange really.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 12/03/2017 08:59

YNBU but it could have been anyone.

I used to work in a nightclub many years ago and purses were handed in to us all the time. Empty of course and we'd always get accused of being the ones who stole the money Hmm

It's a £1. Let it go. Someone nicked my sons £1 in a B&M store ages ago. Yeah I was pissed off about it but I'm not demanding cctv evidence.

I like novembers scenario! Grin

snapcrap · 12/03/2017 09:04

I'm loving the drama of 'I'll never get over the horror of not having enough money at the till, I'll take it to my grave'!

OP everyone's done this at some point. You either put the stuff back, say you'll come back later or some kind soul helps you out.

It is not horrific or shameful.

Do you always make catastrophes out of everyday 'problems'?

Auspiciouspanda · 12/03/2017 09:05

Why would someone take the pound and not the rest? You probably lost it

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 09:06

Who leaves their house for a cinema trip and a bit of shopping and only takes £1.90 and a bunch of useless cards?!? Why carry the cards to begin with if you can't use them?

HemiDemiSemiquaver · 12/03/2017 09:07

Maybe after you counted all the change and were looking for the 10p, you dropped the pound somewhere, in the car or nearby?

Whoever said that you need a card with you to pay for parking by phone, though, you don't - you just have to have a card somewhere, registered to your phone app, and then you can charge that. Some of them might even let you sign up to charge your bank account directly or use paypal. Or your partner's card. etc.

liz70 · 12/03/2017 09:09

The sprites took it.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 12/03/2017 09:12

Why would someone take the pound and not the rest? You probably lost it

To be fair. I once had my purse nicked on my birthday. (swiped out my bag). It was found an hour or two later with all the bank cards and everything still in, but the 80p change I had in there gone. I figured anyone needing the 80p needed it more than I did!

I just wanted my purse back as it had sentimental value. My Gran bought it me for a birthday present about five years ago.

ghostyslovesheets · 12/03/2017 09:13

You go to the cinema

You have exactly £1.90 in you purse and no credit/debit cards

How did you buy your cinema ticket?

Tinkerbec · 12/03/2017 09:17

😍 to the man who gave you a pound.

Just lovely.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 12/03/2017 09:18

It could have been a prebooked film? I took my DCs to the cinemas recently. Only cost me as they had had cinema tickets bought for their Christmas present by a family member.

redandwhite1 · 12/03/2017 09:23

Why take £1 and not £1.90? Why bother take so little at all?

I think it fell out as I can't see anyone bothering take part of the money if at all at that amount

The80sweregreat · 12/03/2017 09:26

i bet the pound is sitting right under the cinema seat and will be until they do a deep clean of the place or sweep underneath the dark recess of those chairs, which they probably dont have time to do in between showings of the films, just a superficial tidy up of all the other crap that appears!

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 09:46

I used to work in a cinema.

20 years ago I showed a man to his seat.

Before he sat down he tucked a pound into my hand.

Is this linked? I will let you decide.

Whispers... the same pound...

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 09:48

Ps don't be mean to the OP. This thread is great and she gets the credit for starting it. I will give you a pound OP.

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