Primitives Steal Things...

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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-11-08 09:07 PM
Original message
Calling all petty thieves and dirt poor who have resorted to lifting petty stuff.
Had to resist that old urge to steal toilet paper at a public bathroom today. Anyone else been so poor, dirt poor, that they thieved toilet paper into their purse (hey at .50/roll plus or minus it adds up!)?

These economic times are creeping me out as I feel the old pressure to resort to poverty tricks. I'm eye-balling the company coffee, and reams of paper, and I took home some pens "just in case". I was at the sandwich shop for lunch and took more saltines, mayo packs and creamers than I needed.

There are so many small items that don't really mean jack shit in your daily life but when you are poor, really poor, you are hyper aware. I'm watching the economy and my stress is manifesting itself by reverting to old, bad, poverty behaviors. Anyone else or am I the only confessed crook??

harmonicon (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-11-08 09:56 PM
Response to Original message
1. it's not thievery....
 .... if you keep the toilet paper in your purse and return to that same toilet from whence the TP came to do your pooping every day. Ok, not really. I've done it before.

I'm glad that I'm not super scared about money like that anymore (though I don't think I'm done with it for the rest of my life - I'm still super conservative with things for those reasons), but I have been at times. Napkins are good.... you don't have to buy napkins/paper towels if you keep the extras that every place you get anything food or drink related gives you. ... ... and ketchup packets.

AggieGal (586 posts)      Sat Oct-11-08 10:04 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Condiment Supply
 I started stocking up with condiments about 6 months ago. My husband has already tapped out the prized Arby's sauce. I have lots of ketchup, mayo, mustard, BBQ sauce, etc

leeroysphits  (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:09 PM
Response to Original message
3. I've resorted to "borrowing" needed ittems from work sometimes...
 Pens, coffee filters, TP, Laptops.

pengillian101  (272 posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. Ever pay it back leeroysphits?
 "Pens, coffee filters, TP, Laptops."
+++++++++++

Ever pay anything back - especially the laptops, leeroysphits?

Uh, ...no?

Just a common thief.
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Thieves rob everyone. Who do you think pays for theft? Everybody.

FREEPTROLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!111111

pengillian101  (272 posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:50 PM
Response to Reply #7
9. LOL. Looks like I've got a live one here...
 "LOL. Looks like I've got a live one here..."

Yup a live wire for certain. I don't steal. How about you?
I have read DU for many years, but didn't sign up to post until recently. I occasionally post. You think I am a newcomer - that's a laff.

I have a contribution star by my name.

Whoopdefrackin Do.

pengillian101  (272 posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:12 PM
Response to Original message
4. I'm eye-balling the company coffee, and reams of paper, and I took home some pens "just in case". 
 I'm eye-balling the company coffee, and reams of paper, and I took home some pens "just in case".

That IS stealing from your company for YOUR personal use at home. For certain times are difficult.

I have lived through difficulties without STEALING. That just compounds everything.

Get welfare benefits, go to a soup line and go to a food shelf - before you STEAL! No excuse for stealng. EVERYBODY is feeling this downturn.

Best to ya.

femmocrat  (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:38 PM
Response to Original message
8. Wow... are people really resorting to theft?
 

I feel sorry for the business owners if that is the case. They are facing tough economic times just like everyone else.

Oh FFS...

[Chris]

riderinthestorm (1000+ posts)      Sat Oct-11-08 09:07 PM
Original message
Calling all petty thieves and dirt poor who have resorted to lifting petty stuff.

I thought this was going to be TomInTib bait.  I am disappointed. 

I had a manager that would order supplies though the wholesale distributor, but she had the decency to reimburse the company for what she ordered.  The downside is that her family had to use the industrial, 11-inch rolls of TP and bulk food from Sysco.

[Chris_]

I thought this was going to be TomInTib bait.  I am disappointed. 

I had a manager that would order supplies though the wholesale distributor, but she had the decency to reimburse the company for what she ordered.  The downside is that her family had to use the industrial, 11-inch rolls of TP and bulk food from Sysco.

I am sure TiT had a drunken night in Las Vegas with Diana Ross (who he found to be a bitch) and The Supremes and they stole all the liquor from the Presidential Suite at the Luxor in 1973, just after he came back from his super secret assignment with john kerry in Cambodia.

[GOBUCKS]

I am sure TiT had a drunken night in Las Vegas with Diana Ross (who he found to be a bitch) and The Supremes and they stole all the liquor from the Presidential Suite at the Luxor in 1973, just after he came back from his super secret assignment with john kerry in Cambodia.

TomInTib is a thief only for political reasons.

He has unlimited funds, as do all his friends.

He pours Patrone on his cornflakes in the morning.

When he steals gasoline from a woman's credit card, it is only because of her bumper sticker, Hot Rod.

He works as a minimum-wage trinket shop clerk only as a cover for his real mission.

His abject alcoholism is a ruse that you fell for, Softee.

Everyone in America would know TomInTib if The Eagles, Willie Nelson, and Alice Cooper didn't claim all his hits.

[miskie]

Id say the easiest way to keep from stealing petty items such as toilet paper and office supplies is to get rid of the high-speed internet connection and get a cheap dialup plan. But that's just me...

[GOBUCKS]

Tilion  (201 posts)      Sun Oct-12-08 12:55 AM
Response to Original message
17. I don't find it wrong to steal when you need something...

I think this philosophy is well known in democrat society.
Probably another Supreme Court opinion clarifying the Ten Commandments.

Withywindle  (1000+ posts)      Sun Oct-12-08 02:05 AM
Response to Original message
22. I've never had a job that I didn't steal TP from at least once (in a matter of necessity)
Are there people who haven't had to?  

I really believe this DUmmy is serious.

[Peter3_1]

Is it any wonder these DUmmies are communists? Never had a job that paid enough to cover their butt paper? Pathetic.

BTW, back in the day, a friend hung out at the only Stright Bar on Fire Island. Where he met Miss Ross. She was in the mood to be picked up, but he passed. She was nice enough, just not to his taste. 

[Carl]

leeroysphits  (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:09 PM
Response to Original message
3. I've resorted to "borrowing" needed ittems from work sometimes...
 Pens, coffee filters, TP, Laptops.

Hoping that the place you supposedly work for finds you out and you serve jail time for it you low life nothing.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I thought this was going to be TomInTib bait.  I am disappointed. 

I had a manager that would order supplies though the wholesale distributor, but she had the decency to reimburse the company for what she ordered.  The downside is that her family had to use the industrial, 11-inch rolls of TP and bulk food from Sysco.

Perhaps TiT stole the OP's account and posted that, you underestimate his mightiness....

 

[GOBUCKS]

Thieving DUmmy caught in San Diego.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27139637/

[USA4ME]

Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Jimmy Buffett

Lookin' back at my hard luck days
I really do have to laugh
Workin' in a dive for twenty-six dollars
Spendin' it all on draft
We were hungry hard luck heroes
Tryin' just to stay alive
So we'd go down to the corner grocery
This is how we'd survive.

[Chorus:]
Who's gonna steal the peanut butter
I'll get a can of sardines
Runnin' up and down the aisles of the Mini-Mart
Stickin' food in our jeans
We never took more than we could eat
There was plenty left on the racks
We all swore if we ever got rich
We would pay the Mini-Mart back
Yes Sir, yes Sir
We would pay the Mini-Mart back.

It was a two man operation
Had it all down on a note
Ricky would watch the big round mirror
And I'd fill up my coat
Then we'd head for the check-out aisle
With a lemon and a bottle of beer
Into the car got to make it on home
'Cause supper time is gettin' near.

[Chorus]

I guess every good picker has had some hard times
I have had my share
It's really kinda funny to laugh at it now
But I don't wanna go back there
So every now and then when I'm in a grocery
I'll take a little but not much
'Cause you never know when the hard times will hit ya
And I don't want to lose my touch.

[Chorus]

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[jinxmchue]

Id say the easiest way to keep from stealing petty items such as toilet paper and office supplies is to get rid of the high-speed internet connection and get a cheap dialup plan. But that's just me...

You and every other person with a brain.

DUmp monkey: "Hrm...  Toilet paper or internet?  Toilet paper or internet?  Well, I can steal toilet paper from public restrooms, so internet it is!"

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

leeroysphits  (1000+ posts)        Sat Oct-11-08 10:09 PM
Response to Original message
3. I've resorted to "borrowing" needed ittems from work sometimes...
 Pens, coffee filters, TP, Laptops.

HEY EVERYBODY! LOOK AT ME COMMITTING FELONY THEFT AND ADMITTING IT ON THE  INTERNET!

[jinxmchue]

HEY EVERYBODY! LOOK AT ME COMMITTING FELONY THEFT AND ADMITTING IT ON THE  INTERNET!

If someone admits a crime to you and you don't turn them in, you could be held culpable, couldn't you?

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

If someone admits a crime to you and you don't turn them in, you could be held culpable, couldn't you?

I think that only applies when you lie to the police or withhold info from them then you could be considered an accessory after the fact! I could be wrong though!

[Chris_]

If someone admits a crime to you and you don't turn them in, you could be held culpable, couldn't you?

I think you could be exonorated if you were able to demonstrate that the person who told you he was a felon had a history of making up rediculous bullshit for attention.

He's a dummy.  Therefore, he is included under Frank's Law #1.  (Sing it with me boys and girls)

DUmmies Lie.  ALL THE TIME, DUmmies Lie.

[jinxmchue]

I think you could be exonorated if you were able to demonstrate that the person who told you he was a felon had a history of making up rediculous bullshit for attention.

He's a dummy.  Therefore, he is included under Frank's Law #1.  (Sing it with me boys and girls)

DUmmies Lie.  ALL THE TIME, DUmmies Lie.

lol!  Touché!

[Miss Mia]

I've taken pens from work.  I have a cup full of them in my car.  But these are the pens with our company name, address, phone number and website on them.  It's free advertising when I go to the grocery store and the cashier doesn't have a pen and I give her a couple.  The cup is what's left after I went to Austin back in June.  Every time someone needed a pen, I had one for them.  These pens are taken with company approval.

But other than pens, I've never taken anything from work, no supplies or anything.  I actually prefer a certain type of pen (not those free ones, I don't like them) and I buy my own.  And I like colored post-it notes, so I buy my own. 

[DarkHalo]

Id say the easiest way to keep from stealing petty items such as toilet paper and office supplies is to get rid of the high-speed internet connection and get a cheap dialup plan. But that's just me...

And in many cities, like mine, there are numerous open wifi networks for people to use free of charge. There is an open air mall area downtown and the city supplies free wifi to that entire area. Of course this would mean leaving mommies basement now and then....