Stealing glasses

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Do you steal glasses from pubs/restaurants? If there’s a nice one, will you slip it into your bag?

Photos of contraband welcome.

Why would you do that?

Those Inch's cider pint glasses are very alluring 😆 🤣

My sister used to as a student. She had quite a collection. She was, and is still, a little strange.

I had thought she had stopped her thieving ways, but perhaps not. Sis, is that you?

Not any more. I stopped when I finished university.

We have quite a few in our house 🤣

😆 🤣 😂

No. Dh has some pub logo glass and I hate it. It causes me displeasure every time I line it up with our other attractive, matching glasses. I can’t wait for it to smash

I used to but realised you can get them from Tesco in better condition, so I nick them from there now.

No. I’m not a thief, and they look really tacky anyway 😅

🤣🤣🤣

No, but I took a fancy to one of those IPA ones recently. I just asked the barkeep if I could buy one. He just gave me it.

You mean steal? I work in a theatre in the Netherlands and the amount of times I have remind people to give back their empty bottles of beer and soft drinks when they are finished. In the Netherlands you pay a deposit on plastic and glass bottles (and more recently cans) which are only reimbursed when we return them to the supplier, everyone knows this because the deposit system applies everywhere.

living next door to a pub I often find them tossed in my flower beds and just can’t be arsed to keep taking them back. As a result I have a cupboard full of rather nice ones.

Not now, but when I was a student in London, we all did, also ashtrays.

Not since I used to live in a pub. But they're still in my kitchen used everyday 17 years later. Pint glasses, plates, bowls, steak knives, sundae spoons.

I liked a glass and asked about buying said glass, was told to put it in my bag, everyone else does

Yes occasionally. Back at Uni it was mostly ashtrays. My housemates took a picnic bench once.

A picnic bench?!?

How big was their bag??

Because people want to have branded glasses for their favourite drinks - Guinness, Stella Artois etc - and you can't always buy them. No, it's not right. But it's a reason/explanation.
(Disclaimer: I don't drink, do deffo not me, but I do know someone who does this for the above reason).

I honestly have no idea how they did it, it was in our kitchen the next day. Kitchen wasn't even on the ground floor!

I did when I was a student 😳. I haven’t done since but maybe I would if I really liked the glass and was very drunk

My Mother was a bugger for that. No idea why, she was otherwise very law abiding

Becareful, I think that's just how the Krays started out, accordng to Ernest 'Nipper' Read of the Yard.

It's a slippery slope of the thin edge of the wedge that can lead to murder, armed robbery, arson, protection rackets, gambling, assaults and other rather nasty things...

Although, by all accounts, they were very nice to their Mother.

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In the 80s I moved into a new flat and didn't have a dining table. Was at the pub with a bunch of work colleagues next to the flat and some of them just lifted one of the pub tables out of the back door and into my flat.