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To think cinema guy stole my £1!

165 replies

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:
SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 17:59

Grin at yellow

You are safe from the grammar police here.

Now if you are here flaunting a pound coin...that's another story...

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:00

yellow and summer the new Cagney and Lacey. Wink

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 18:08

Sherlock holmes and the pound of baskerville Grin

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:13
Grin

The pound of silence - simon and Garfunkel

Doesn't really work but shows willingness to join in.

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 18:19

Summer I guess one could say you're "in for a penny,in for a pound". Unless it mysteriously dissapears of course Grin

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:25

rebel I am trying to think of better puns but I don't want them to be a damp's quid. Wink

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:27
RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 18:29

Had to ask OH what that was. Having english as a second language is such a pound in the ass with these things Grin

P.s. I don't care how much it sucks this is fun!

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:36

I am worried the OP hasn't come back with an update on coincam confrontation with cinema guy. Hope she didn't take.... a pounding Shock

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 18:42

pound in the ass

Could that be where it's been all along!!? Confused

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 19:02

Could that be where it's been all along!!?

OMG! Did i just solve my first mumsnet mystery? Do i get a badge or something? A new shiny pound coin? Grin

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:21

Biscuit closest to a pound coin for you rebel. I am tempted to change my username to TheSamePound

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 19:23

I guess i could be a RebelPound. You know...the one that mysteriously disappears when you need it the most GrinGrinGrin

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:33

RebelPound.... The one that gets jammed in the shopping trolley... The one that doesn't work in a vending machine....

I am glad you are with me rebel. Keeping a dead thread alive. I just can't let it go. Where is that pound?

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 19:36

Yup that kinda sounds like the story of my life 😅😅 Oh and let's not forget the one that falls in some kind of stupid crack while you're paying for something and you need to find another one.

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:41

falls into some kind of stupid crack

That's the pound in the ass alright! Grin

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 19:42

I fell right into that one didn't I? GrinGrin

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:44

Brings a whole new perspective on the phrase quids in Confused Grin

ReginaGeorgeinSheepsClothing · 12/03/2017 19:49

I heard the pound had run off to join the army......

Too much sorry.... am waiting on DH putting DC to bed to start a film! 😶

To think cinema guy stole my £1!
Yellowbird54321 · 12/03/2017 19:49

Summer Cagney I know what you mean about not being able to let this thread go..........I just can't help feeling we've not had our pound of flesh from it yet! Grin

Yellowbird54321 · 12/03/2017 19:53

The pound has run off to join the army!! Rebel forces by any chance?

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:58

Regina that is brilliant. This thread welcomes all theories especially in picture form.Grin

yellow yes!

RebelRogue · 12/03/2017 19:58

Found it!!!

To think cinema guy stole my £1!
SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 19:59

lacey

SummerHouse · 12/03/2017 20:01

Rebel is that a cigarette blue tacked to the pound. Mysterious twist!

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