Stolen glasses..
Have already seen a few of the "walk out of the pub with a glass" stories but....

This wasn't just one glass. A dear, departed (ie dead!) ex colleague of mine. We were enjoying the official reopening of the newly refurbished pub (with stupid new name) beside our office building. We'd been enjoying it for several hours before we noticed that Alec had been stashing glasses at the side of his seat.

His excuse was that he was having a New Year party (a few weeks hence if I recall correctly) and needed some more drinking receptacles.

This didn't seem too bizarre, or even wrong, at the time, so we all pitched in with a few more empties, all shapes and sizes. Someone found a carrier bag, and we decided it was time to go.

We made sure that he was in the middle of the crowd of us leaving, and found ourselves safely out of the pub and round the corner, undetected. We all went our separate unsteady ways, to enjoy a work-free (if slightly hungover) weekend.

Come Monday, Alec limps painfully into work, to a chorus of "What did you do?" from all and sundry.

He'd got the stolen glasses on (and off) two buses to get home. He got them safely all the way to his front doorstep, where he tripped. And landed on the bag. The broken glass therein slashed his leg in two different places.

He got himself inside, checked his leg, and nearly fainted at the sight of his own blood. He then had to wake his wife, who was a seriously scary woman, and ask her to run him to A&E for some stitches. She verbally abused him for the entire journey - 30 minutes each way - and the waiting time at the hospital of nearly three hours. Poor guy didn't hear the end of that one for months.

Moral - stealing is wrong!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 10 Jan 2008, 14:53, 1 reply)

Especially something as cheap as glasses.
Five for a quid at Ikea, fuck's sake.
( Bob Todd whee, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 15:44, closed)