To think cinema guy stole my £1!

[TheUnicorns]

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?!

I really can't imagine someone stealing one coin and leaving the rest behind.

Alternative plot twist: ... the woman behind the counter said there's only 90p here but was there?

Indeed, perhaps she works in partnership with the queue-Samaritan, whereby she nabs your pound coin, then by sleight of hand flips it to the queue-Samaritan, who offers to pay for your groceries, prompting your horror and rushing to Mumsnet to post about it. And here's the biggest twist of all: they are both reporters for the Daily Mail creating MN fodder that they then regurgitate as news.

They're also the ones who park across your driveways, potty their toddlers next to your restaurant table and feed their 6 month old McDonalds chips, all to generate more threads and thus more news.

pillowcase yes! This is the true fake news. They also park in parent and child spaces.

I reckon next time the OP looks in her purse, there will be a pound coin in there and she will realise with a sense of creeping horror that the man from the cinema followed her home, broke into her house and replaced the coin just to freak her out.

Of course, Rebel. We need a murder...got to be a murder here, somewhere.

Maybe OP should log it with 101 in case police find a beaten to a pulp body with an artistic drawing in blood of a 1£ coin next to it.

Won't somebody get this logged with the police? In that notebook all the 101 operators share and pass to PC Plum at the end of the shift.

There's a thieving cinema usher at large, and nobody will get the goddamned thing LOGGED.

Are they still called ushers, btw?

No 101. No police. We need to sort this ourselves.

Or, the newspapers will report tomorrow the mysterious death of a purseless woman, found in the cinema toilets with a pound coin rammed into the back of her throat.

It's always the one that says 'No police, no getting it logged...'

Do you honestly think that someone would risk losing their job over a pound?
Are you sure you didn't drop it?

Or, the newspapers will report tomorrow the mysterious death of a purseless woman, found in the cinema toilets with a pound coin rammed into the back of her throat.

Ooooh maybe this isn't the OP at all,but the usher turned killer trying to give himself an alibi by making OP seem alive on sunday morning.

Talk about glass half empty
So you start a thread about the unlikely fact that a man stole your £1
Instead of talking about the lovely man who GAVE you £1

There's a thieving cinema usher at large

I'm with Summer - reporting this could make it worse for the OP, how are we to know she won't yet receive a ransom note for the pound in question.............this might not be simple thievery it could be kidnap or even blackmail.

Yellow don't you mean coinnap?

I have a finger prints dusting set (actually I have two) and an 8-yr-old who attended a Science Centre training day on dusting for prints ok it was a party activity but close enough
You can hire him OP for the princely sum of . . . one pound.

I bet you find the quid in your car in a few days.

Otherwise I go with the 'stalker/same quid' theory tbh.

I once lost my purse in Centre parcs. I had 200 quid in it (stupidly). It was handed in, minus the case. I never thought of accusing the staff of stealing the money, I was grateful to have my bank cards back and feeling stupid for losing it in the first place.

*minus the cash

"WTF? Seriously"

Yes. On the few occasions I've lost something valuable in the past and had it returned to me, I have ALWAYS offered something as a thank you to the finder (probably only about four times in twenty years but still). And on one occasion where I got my purse back with the money removed, but cards and photos intact, I noticed the shop staff's name on her badge and dropped in an envelope with a lottery ticket in it for her the next time I passed that shop. Nothing unusual in this, I would have thought?

Wtf? You actually think the guy stole the pound but left the rest? He'd risk his job over this
Everything sycamore said.
This is just, there are no words.

Ok I have an idea.

Back to the cinema. Ask for the cinema guy who gave you the purse. Ask him if he found it or if someone else passed it to him. If he says yes, he found it, say "I have a little something for you." Slowly pull out and hold up a single pound. Maintain eye contact for uncomfortable period. Finally pass him the pound.

Report back on his general demeanor.

Go.

Or where a bodycam whilst doing the above and post footage here for feedback

Body cam. Of course yellowbird. Why did I not think of that?!

You can't be expected to think of everything Summer, complex cases like this require a team approach

Coincam

Oh and previous post should have been wear not where (obviously) - don't want to get thrown of the squad for poor grammar & spelling

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