Would you take a bottle of champagne from a drinks gathering?

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Free drinks hosted by an organisation I am member of. This is a very very very wealthy organisation, worth in excess of £500 million.

There were 50 people and 100 bottles of champagne.

As I was leaving I saw a crate of champagne and so nabbed a bottle. AIBU?

limitedperiodonly This thread has made me realise that even though I am lightfingered, I have standards. I keep money found in the street; I benefited from a John Lewis mix-up over a returned bit of objet d'art which meant I ended up with two; I kept the rose bush the checkout person at Homebase failed to scan among my big trolley of garden stuff; I'd have kept that £100 purse sent in error for a £12 one from the thread last week even though I thought it was ugly.

100% agree. The difference is, the op actively took this bottle. There's a big difference between being sent something/given something in error, or finding a £10 note on the street. Very different to take the £10 note off a table for example.

Crass and vulgar behaviour. Really naff.

So your dripfeed about driving home and not drinking any on the night is to justify your crass behaviour is it?

You are a thief. Plain and simple. It's cringeworthy. I hope they have cctv and put all the membership fees up or stop having this type of do which is what happens when one person spoils it for the rest.

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I was so bloody tempted, it was really obvious as in everyone else at the table would have seen it, but I figured it wasn't worth the fuss, we had loads left over, it's been almost 18 months since the wedding and we still have some prosecco left!

Oh, and I figured it was the price I'd paid to get the proper measure of her character, We don't see each much these days!

Very different to take the £10 note off a table for example.

If it's a restaurant table, I agree Nesssie. I've waited for the waiter to get back even when I wanted to leave whenever I've had the feeling the people on the next table were going to nab the tip.

If it was on a deserted park table nowhere near a restaurant I'd take it but suspect I was one of those tiresome Channel 5 stings.

I'd still have it though.

I love these threads because it's interesting where our personal morality lies.

For instance, my personal code does not align with that of Bloomini who says this:

You are a thief. Plain and simple. It's cringeworthy. I hope they have cctv and put all the membership fees up or stop having this type of do which is what happens when one person spoils it for the rest

Isn't wishing people stop being nice to most people because of the behaviour of some people shooting yourself in the foot Bloomini?

I don't give a shit. I can pay for my own drinks.

limitedperiodonly - agree, park bench is the middle of nowhere - same as lying on the floor in a busy high street. No clear owner.