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.

Same

I'm doing the reverse and leaving random wine glasses at people's houses who don't have wine glasses when I go over for a drink and a catch up. Sometimes it's that they have lost or dropped all of their wine glasses, sometimes I am the only wine drinker, but it has happened several times now

I found a beautiful glass in a pub in Costa Teguise and asked the manager if I could buy it. He only asked for 3 euros and said the previous week, someone had tried to put one in a baby's changing bag.

You need to pass on the cost of the deposit to the customer and make it their problem to return them.

Husband does, but only if they are different country and a specific reason from a foreign holiday.

I wouldn't do it myself and wouldn't authorise some carlsberg / Beavertown / inches in the house. I can sort of justify it as a souvenir although I don't do it myself.

I did this once and was told no.
Wish I’d just nicked it now. I left it behind.

Dh used to. He doesn't drink any more but has a quite nice Carlsberg glass which he asked to pay for and they gave him it.
He used to ask if I was taking a big bag in case there was a nice glass. No if you want to nick it you do it.

That happened to me with some gorgeous cups in Stockholm

No. My ex SIL used to nick something from every restaurant, hotel, bar or pub we went to. It’s a horrid trait and it got to the stage we didn’t want to go out with her. She was a scummy fuck. I wouldn’t lower myself. If you want it, go to a shop and buy it.

When my kids were in early 20s I woke up to one in our yard one morning. I woke them up and made them take it back.
I often find them on my window sill when people have dumped them after a night out. If they are nice (hello Inches and Neckoil) they go in the cupboard if not into recycling.

Am loving the bench and table nicking students 😂

No, it actually costs the company to replace them and many a pub landlord has appealed to their patrons not to do that

My MIL too, she's in her late 70s now and still loves to steal a glass (or pitcher!)

We have a load in the cupboard of accidentally stolen glasses from pub stops over the years where you can park your camper in the garden or car park of a pub and they've ended up in the van instead of in the pub. Normally due to still having them when it rains or after last orders rather than a planned steal

No those days are long gone

It was a common thing to do back in the 80s and 90s became less popular in my local area when they bought in generic glasses

Ashtrays was more my family's thing my mom kept my dads collection in the divorce she didn't even smoke she kept her plant pots in them

Also happened to me in Jamie Oliver's restaurant (Jamie's Italian, which went bust) I bought a pack of teatowels and the server gave me the one he used to serve my dish with for 'free'. I think this and the freebies like bottles of Prosecco and puddings when you had a birthday probably contributed to it not being a brilliant business model.

The teatowels are still going strong 10 years later, mind.

I always say, never trust anyone that doesn’t have a pub glass in their house.

Hats off for the picnic bench fair play very impressive

By the box full. But only when they're swapping glasses and the brewery sends them all new.

Story gets better by the post lol 🤣 howling at some of the replys

And for the record if it were not for pubs I would not own any glasses

I used to have quite a collection of the plastic Aftershock branded shot glasses you used to get back in the day. God knows why, I never did shots at home only when I was out and had already had a few. They probably expected those to get stolen anyway.

If i had a pint for every time my husband asked me to plank a glass years ago id still be hungover. Thankfully he now buys them off Ebay much to my disdain and switches them round every few months with the massive collection he has in the shed!! I only allow 6 of them in the cupboard at one time. Bloody men and the pint glasses, i dont get it, why all the glasses when you have one mouth? His side of the argument is well why all the handbags? 😆 🤣

Now we have to see a picture please!

No 😂 I’m not desperate.