People really will pinch ANYTHING!

[marthamoo]

Bit of background info so you get the idea - I live in a terraced house with a communal passageway that runs down the back of the houses with a gate at each end. My actual garden is up a few steps and through a locked gate.

The other night I was picking up snails and slugs in the garden with a pair of old kitchen tongs I keep for such jobs. Then I hung them on a little pipe that sticks out of the wall by the back door. Just looked for them to pick up more snails and some t*sser has pinched them! They were rusty, and snail slimed and disgusting - I hope they are using them to turn sausages over and I hope they get very, very ill.

A few years ago I also had my pram ramp pinched - two planks of wood which dh had made a lip for so they fixed onto the doorstep and I could get the pram in. Absolutely no use to anyone except me. Weird.

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Took the children swimming in Stockholm - it was minus 7 outside. Someone took my horrible old C and A ski jacket - very little in the pockets. I wouldn't have minded but the journey home was freezing!

All the drain covers at the side of roads have beem disappearing round here, apparently they get sold for scrap.

Also, friends of ours in New York had their Rottweiler stolen from the garden!

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people keep pinching my buggies!!

once when we went on eurostar to disneyland, we got off at waterloo and our pram was no longer in the luggage rack! dh walked the lenght of the train to find it and it was not to be found.

and then some b**r broke into my car and stole my replacement pram and a buggy and a car seat! please tell me why, surely they can get no more than a few pounds for a buggy that had irremovable chocolate stains in it!

my mum and dad were burgled a few years ago, and the burgalars (we know who they are, they live on the same estate!) put one of my mums ornaments (an ugly little china frog) on her chair, with her slippers at the foot of it. - obviously been checking them out thru the window to know where mum usually sits and was obviously supposed to represent her.

now i was angry about the robbery, and i think they should be strung up - but - i couldnt help having a secret giggle about my mum the frog! - btw, they also made themselves a sandwich AND WASHED THE DISHES!!!!!!

A friend left a wrapped birthday present for my DS on my doorstep and someone stole it, it was a t-shirt for a 7 yr old!

Talking about stolen dogs, a friend of my father had this beautiful pearlg gray toy french poodle and one day, after picking him up from the vets (had just had it's haircut), somebody aproach them and started fussing about the dog and ask her if he could hold it. As soon as he passed it to the man, he run away with the dog never to be seen again!

I definitively have a problem with my pronouns...

When we had our pub we had all sorts of things pinched. The lovely bentwood coatrack and the antique guiness clock I could understand. But a flyblown old mirror from the ladies loo? Or the net curtains? People are weird! Someone even managed to take a large wooden table with benches attached and a lavender bush from the garden without being caught on the CCTV!

One of our customers did rather sheepishly return a large number of ashtrays. He'd started taking them as a joke and got carried away but then felt guilty.