Stealing glasses

[Missedthis]

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

Photos of contraband welcome.

Absolutely, I’m drinking from one now that I’ve had since I was about 19.

The Starbucks cups also make the best tasting brews…….

The landlord told us to put a pound in the RNLI collection box when DS wanted to keep the glass with a dragon on.

I always wanted to take a Bewley’s Dublin single serve teapot home with me, they were so cute and pot-bellied, but they came with loose leaf tea and I wasn’t going to risk a leak in my handbag.

DH half-inched a Jamie’s Italian napkin without telling me after I’d admired it in the restaurant. I was too ashamed to use it!
But I do have a collection of Nutella glasses with their useful lids.

@Missedthis I ask if I can buy one from the pub, if it’s one I like. Sometimes they charge me, sometimes they say I can keep one. Not all of them are freebies from the pubcos.

Jd wetherspoon basically furnished my bedsit in the 90s. Cutlery glasses... ashtrays.

Times were hard

My ex would walk out still drinking it and soon it would be in the cupboard! I'm not a saint but would feel a bit guilty about using a stolen item!
I like the idea of branded glasses but would rather buy a couple (unused and guilt free 😅)

Yeah the nice haven 1s....but at a tenner a double gin I feel like I should 🤣🤣

How old are you OP? I did this as a teenager.

The usual mumsnetty responses here 🤭 love to see it.

No but I’d absolutely love some of the crockery they use in Wetherspoons I always admire it 😂

We had a good collection in our student house.

I have some Devenish and Eldridge Pope ones, for which I blame my parents.

Not glasses but I do have a rather expansive airline cutlery collection (as well as a few glasses).

Not since Oktoberfest 2004 - fuck me, 21 years ago! Doesn't feel like it!

Only if it’s nice. Used to work at a pub and we only cared about the old handle pint mugs we couldn’t replace that the oldies used. It’s

I found a pint glass from the local pub in the gutter near my house the morning after the Millennium, a plain one with no logo. I kept it as a souvenir.

Absolutely! I'm the youngest in my friend group by 20yrs. I'm 53. I went out for lunch with six of us, I commented on how lovely the branded pub glasses were (J20) and how I might 'liberate' mine. No word of a lie, I looked away for just one moment and all of my friends had stuffed their glasses in their bags and mine was the only one left on the table!

Never too old to take a souvenir glass home!

And to the PP who commented on the Inches glasses, yes they are lovely and I may have one or four in my cupboard!

Oh! And I also 'liberated' a China plate from Betty's tearoom. Same group.of friends but that time I swiped it and they didn't notice until I waved it on the coach back to our hotel!

Maybe it’s time to re live your youth…

No, I don’t. It’s a bit scabby once you’re beyond your early 20s, surely.

This house was probably half a mile from the pub - it was just that the regular from the bar lived next door to the thief, happened to see it out of the window and then of course when the landlord said he'd had a table stolen - said oh thats interesting as next door have just got a picnic table identical to your others

My bed time glass is always the now very faded Carling pint glass. I get v upset if anyone else uses it. And we have a variety of other pint pots cluttering up my cupboard. Mainly from the local that charges £5.60 a pint. In a South Yorkshire suburb, not a swanky city centre bar or anything. Dh says for that price it must include the glass as well.

I'm astonished at those proudly admitting and justifying glass, cutlery and crockery theft past a certain age, especially from naice places. Why not just offer to pay for them? If you can afford to eat there, then surely you can afford to pay for a glass!

Yep, I go by this tact. Even the bar staff who explain they only got sent 6 of those glasses and they're not allowed to will always shout over as you leave and give you a very loud whisper to put it in your bag. Got a really nice one from a little pub opposite the jail in Dublin, all the way back in hand luggage, and then it smashed on the first day home when I knocked it off the draining board 😩 Too far too go back for another one. 😩

No, I’m not a sado, if you need glasses go and buy them.