What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

[Teadrinker11]

I'm definitely guilty of stealing things from hotel rooms. I never go for anything overly big, usually teabags, toilet roll and the toiletries when I leave.
What are you guilty of nicking from hotels or your workplace?

[quote PartyPlan]**@GoBrookeYourself* I don’t owe @flowervest75* an apology at all. She is a brazen thief and thinks nothing of it so calling her out on her lack of common sense is fair game, both on this thread and on her previous thread.[/quote]
My point you can call anyone out on the thread for stealing if you like, but it’s a parenting forum and her other thread which was about a parenting concern has nothing to do with this. There’s plenty of times as a parent you’re so sleep deprived or worried or stressed that ‘common sense’ goes out of the window, so for that to be used against you will stop people asking questions later in case they think they’ll be looked upon as stupid.

If you don’t feel you owe her an apology for that, fine, that’s on you, but I know I’ve done things and asked things that someone could think ‘well, that’s obvious isn’t it?’ But it hasn’t been obvious to me. Unless past posts are relevant, and that wasn’t, don’t bring them up and certainly not as an insult.

@flowervest75

*Do you want to share what else you steal? Throw in a "lol" if you must, just so we know it lighthearted

There isn't really anything very 'lol' about that, is there?*

What do people on MN have against the word lol? Is it forbidden or something or is it better for me to say ‘haha’ instead??
I forget most people are older than my mum on here that must be why🙄

If you are going to claim youth and immaturity as justification for being a thief then you do other young people a disservice.

Nobody cares about the semantics, OP. Just accept the fact that you are being called out because you think being a thief is funny / lol / haha - you can choose which term you prefer.

You are an embarrassing thief. You have embarrassed yourself on this thread and shown yourself up as really dim. Congrats .

[quote Rivermonsters]@GoBrookeYourself it’s hardly a nasty comment tho is it[/quote]
Calling someone ‘not the sharpest tool in the box’ when they’ve asked a question on a forum DESIGNED for questions like that, isn’t nasty? Then you and I have different definitions of nasty. Whatever you think of what the poster has said on this thread, she should be able to ask a question if she’s unsure about something without fear of being mocked for it. You’ve never asked a question that might have been deemed obvious to someone else and you wouldn’t have been hurt if they’d called you, essentially, thick, for it?

Other people have also said in this thread they've stolen things. You're the only one who is engaging in arguments with people.

Nobody has told them that they were right to do it - they weren't. Also, most of them have said they feel guilty about it and don't make it a regular, planned habit. If you need/want new towels and don't want to pay for them, why go to the trouble of paying to stay at a hotel when you could just walk out of a shop with them, or order some online using a stolen/cloned credit card? It's theft: no different, however much you might protest to the contrary.

[quote flowervest75]@XenoBitch not sure if you’re being sarcy or not but if we could take the mattresses home from the Blakemore Hotel in Hyde Park then we honestly would. They’re amazing[/quote]
If the Blakemore Hotel hear of your towel stealing habit, they might take more notice when you come to stay!

Flowervest75
I'm hardly the one being obtuse here. You justify your theft by saying your culture demands you use numerous towels, personally you feel its OK to steal . In this case you can't have it both ways, either your culture condones it or you are disrespectful to your culture in which case you can hardly hide behind it. Either way , other people pay for "your" towels

@Lifeisaminestrone

I was once upgraded to first class and the air hostess told me to keep a glass as a momento! I still felt guilty, I think they expect some customers to keep them! I think Concorde customers always used to?

The Concorde glass was given to you in a presentation pack.

@MuffinStrops

Because people who say lol and hun tend to be of a certain demographic. Maybe more of the demographic that steals things. Call it snobbish but that’s a perception that’s out there.

Don’t you care that what you’re doing is increasing costs for other people if you don’t care about hotel owners?

@MuffinStrops I’d love to hear what demographic that is?!

I also assumed the word 'nicking' was originally used in a jovial sense - i.e. grabbing every mini shampoo bottle, hot chocolate sachets, biscuits, taking an extra roll and banana for lunch that you could have had with your breakfast if you'd been hungry enough then - getting your full money's worth from all the stuff that's included/allowed for in the price you paid.

I guessed there may be some people who had deliberately/accidentally taken non-consumable goods at one point, and later felt guilty about it; but I wasn't expecting unashamed glee and boasting at deliberately doing it on a regular basis.

I stole a branded ashtray from a Travelodge once when I was a stroppy teenager. I still feel bad about it thirty years later. Especially since it was a family room and the hotel probably thought my very upright, anti-smoking parents took it.

The last time I stayed at a Travelodge , I think about 2017 (I don't know why we didn't pick Premier Inn which was just as convenient and a lot nicer for the same price!) it was literally as bare a bedroom you could imagine. I Suspect prison cells might be more well furnished. It literally had a bed and 2 shelves attached to the wall as bedside tables and that was it. There might have been a rail for a few clothes but not a wardrobe. Admittedly the toilet wasn't actually in the room. The shower gel/shampoo was in a dispenser attached to the wall. I didn't want any "souvenirs" from such a depressing and bare room, and would only ever take consumables but you'd have been hard pressed to remove anything from the room!
It reminded me of my trip to Aldi early in the pandemic where the hand sanitiser was chained down!!

Just the miniature bottles of toiletries

I don't understand the "it's only one X,y, z..." Argument.

It would be if there was only one thief in the world but one towel X however many thieves X every year = a bloody lot actually.

And everyone has to pay more because businesses factor theft into their prices. So the honest people are paying for the thieves hauls. That's not ok.

Nothing. I'm not a chav.

@tkwal

Flowervest75 I'm hardly the one being obtuse here. You justify your theft by saying your culture demands you use numerous towels, personally you feel its OK to steal . In this case you can't have it both ways, either your culture condones it or you are disrespectful to your culture in which case you can hardly hide behind it. Either way , other people pay for "your" towels

@tkwal woah woah woah. Again. Reading is FUNDAMENTAL.

Nowhere did I ‘justify’ stealing towels because my culture ‘demands’ I use numerous towels. Seriously, what is wrong with your comprehension skills?

Someone mentioned that I’ll be wiping my face with a towel that someone has used on their arse. I responded saying, unlike some I’m from a culture where you use a one towel for your face and another for your body. Meaning, I wouldn’t be using a towel meant for the body on my face anyway.

So I’ll say it again, reading is fundamental, so is having comprehension skills. People keep trying to put words in my mouth. Where have I tried to justify stealing towels?? In no way does my culture encourage me to steal.

I took the towels because I wanted too. My answer for taking them is simply because I wantes too. Not sure why people like you are trying to twist my words to fit some sort of agenda? Maybe you find it hard to accept that someone will come on to an anonymous forum and admit stealing something on a thread..that’s about…wait for it….stealing…..

I don't take anything apart from complimentary toiletries and biscuits

Yes and the pen possibly

@cheekychaplin

I never take anything, I don't really see the point. Hotel toiletries don't interest me, same for tea bags. We have all these things at home.

this. I used to collect the giveaway postcards and a sheet of the stationery but I don't think you get it any more.

Also, people have said they’ve taken pens, glasses from pubs, towels, robes, pillows and so on. They took them because they wanted them. Yet people keep @‘ing me and asking why I’m staying at a hotel if I can’t afford towels. I took them because along with all those other people, I wanted too. I’m sure in my first post I said I like that it’s big or fluffy or something yet people are asking me why I’m not saving up for towels.

Now again, can people not read or is there some sort of agenda here because I’m the only one continuously responding?!

I nicked a pillow before. It was comfiest pillow I had ever slept on. I simply couldn't leave it behind!

@neverornow

I nicked a pillow before. It was comfiest pillow I had ever slept on. I simply couldn't leave it behind!

Why didn't you find out the make and buy your own?

I’ve never stayed at a hotel that had huge fluffy towels. I’ll look up the one mentioned.

I was at a hotel that had the most beautiful mugs - bone china, very thin, quite plain. I took one.
Still have it, one of my favourite mugs ten years later.

Why didn't you find out the make and buy your own?

Exactly: nothing wrong in asking where they get them from, no need to resort to stealing. Weren't you deeply embarrassed to be vacating a hotel room with a very clearly empty space at the top of the bed where there should have been a pillow?

The last time I stayed at a Travelodge... it was literally as bare a bedroom you could imagine.

Maybe they were hacked off with people nicking stuff

Very dishonest to take towels. How can you justify that?