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You are a Burglar

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VioletSky Sat 07-Jan-23 22:46:52

But you only steal things that slightly inconvenience people.

What are you taking?

I'd take:

The glass plate in the microwave

The knob off the oven.

The bathroom light bulb

Squiffy Tue 10-Jan-23 17:06:25

The last digit from all the numbers in the phone book.

OnwardandUpward Tue 10-Jan-23 17:17:52

Haha thanks Janet. I have to admit that if I was a burglar I would probably be a selfish one.

I already crept in and stole all the coffee because it was more important than food wink

Secondwind Tue 10-Jan-23 18:12:47

Pillows and cushions.

Blossom5 Tue 10-Jan-23 18:14:10

Slippers and keys

Wheniwasyourage Tue 10-Jan-23 18:14:11

One leg from each table.

The lid of the teapot.

inishowen Tue 10-Jan-23 18:18:13

The kettle, the car keys, all the cutlery.

Rainnsnow Tue 10-Jan-23 18:18:30

DhFavourite thin cushion, his old gloves, glasses with one arm.

VioletSky Tue 10-Jan-23 18:55:24

I can't help laughing at how many people would burgle their husbands

I can just see it now, head to toe black, creeping through the kitchen, forward roll across the living room... grabbing the TV remote, then diving through the window before jumping the fence

HotfootSue67 Tue 10-Jan-23 19:05:16

Coins
Toothbrush
Toilet Roll
Mirror

It's the second time i've robbed this week ha ha...

glammagran Tue 10-Jan-23 19:53:41

If I was a mean burglar I would put prawns in the curtain poles and put grass or cress seed on the carpets and water it.

Pinkrinse Tue 10-Jan-23 22:30:53

All the spectacles in the house! Tee, hee, hee,

Kartush Wed 11-Jan-23 06:56:38

interesting topic, the things that some of you think would only cause slight inconvenience would seriously inconvenience me.

Gabrielle56 Wed 11-Jan-23 08:10:02

hmm....two steak plates[like rocking horse sht to source]
small food processor that slices chops etc but compact!
any loose change left openly out[car park while i burgle]
and.....any new looking boots size 6?
wink

narrowboatnan Wed 11-Jan-23 09:24:21

The labels from all the canned food 🥫

BeverleyJB Wed 11-Jan-23 10:24:09

Rosina

*downtoearth*!! You are a sadist! (But how inventive)
I'd cut the plugs off everything and take them away.

The first house I purchased with my DH was acquired from a divorcing couple and suffice to say it was not amicable.

On moving in day, we found that all the TV aerial cables had the ends cut off and also the lids of all the bins had been taken away!

I'd remove just one slipper from each pair…… wink

Witzend Wed 11-Jan-23 10:35:18

BeverleyJB, the woman we bought our house from decades ago, was so incensed with dh for negotiating the price down, she took all the screwed in curtain rails down, plus virtually every light bulb out. Even though she knew I’d be moving in on my own with a very young baby, and I’d allowed her to stay 4 days after completion, since her next, bigger house, wasn’t ready.
My solicitor had a pink fit!

She had been in a hurry to move, and knew that dh was working in the Middle East at the time - her reaction to his reasonable enough offer was, ‘You are not in an Arab marketplace now!’ (Pls imagine a German accent.)
He said, ‘Well, take it or leave it.’
She took, and evidently seethed!

BeverleyJB Wed 11-Jan-23 10:51:25

How awful Witzend! Particularly as the vendor must have known your personal circumstances.

At least we knew that it was one of the divorcing couple (each one moved out of the property at different times) trying to inconvenience the other rather than an attack on us personally, but still very petty. We still have a “spare” dustbin with no lid so we had the last laugh so to speak!

Wheniwasyourage Wed 11-Jan-23 16:12:53

Every second slat from a bed base.

The wire rack from the grill pan.

VioletSky Wed 11-Jan-23 16:33:51

narrowboatnan

The labels from all the canned food 🥫

Oo genius idea

MrsKen33 Wed 11-Jan-23 16:58:40

I had a friend once whose husband worked at Heinz. He often brought unlabelled tins home. After a while she was quite good with guessing the contents. ….by the sound when she shook them .

OnwardandUpward Wed 11-Jan-23 18:40:38

VioletSky

narrowboatnan

The labels from all the canned food 🥫

Oo genius idea

It would keep things interesting I suppose grin but meal planning would be hard.

Nothing like opening a tin of peaches when you're trying to make bolognese and wanted tomatoes wink

Wheniwasyourage Thu 12-Jan-23 10:22:06

All the calendars.

Lampshades.

DeeDe Thu 12-Jan-23 14:37:01

All the cutlery… and TV remote

Wheniwasyourage Thu 12-Jan-23 18:46:44

The clothes pegs.

The address book.

VioletSky Thu 12-Jan-23 19:20:04

The spare hangers

So they can't hang up the clothes fresh out the wash