Crazy Lady Took My Money!

[LingualMonkey]

Today, I took Kid #2 to a museum while Kid #1 was at dance rehearsal. Kid #2's birthday approaches and I did a little shopping for her in the gift shop.

When I pulled my wallet out, a couple of quarters fell out with it. I handed the clerk my card and bent down for the quarters. An older woman had just retrieved them.

And here's what happened:

Me: this is me
CQL: Crazy Quarter Lady

Me: Oh, did I drop some change? (I was being polite. I felt them slip out of my hand.)
CQL: NO! NO! I had my purse open! They're mine!
Me: I thought they were...
CQL: I had my purse open! They're mine!

Jeez...if you're that desperate for 50 cents, maybe you shouldn't be going to the museum except on free day.

I let it go. 50 cents isn't worth throat punching a crazy old lady (although it did cross my mind).

[spookysonata]

Me: Oh, did I drop some change? (I was being polite. I felt them slip out of my hand.)

That'll teach you!

Weird old lady.

[Imogene]

So, wait, this is in fact the opposite of "The monkey has my wallet"... what the hell?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, clearly, she needed it more than you did.

If were feeling mean, though, you could have said, "Oh, sorry, I thought I dropped 75 cents."

Then she would have spent the rest of the afternoon looking for the third quarter.

[Calie]

Well, clearly, she needed it more than you did.

If were feeling mean, though, you could have said, "Oh, sorry, I thought I dropped 75 cents."

Then she would have spent the rest of the afternoon looking for the third quarter.

*snerk* pity I'm never able to come up with such ideas till after...must remember if some crazy lady ever tries to steal my money. LingualMonkey, you did the right thing, if you had tried to reason with her, she may have gone even crazier...

[LingualMonkey]

If were feeling mean, though, you could have said, "Oh, sorry, I thought I dropped 75 cents."

Next time I go museum gift shop shopping, you're coming with me.

[blas]

I definetly do not thinking stealing is ok in ANY way....nor would I be saying this if any of my expensive belongings were stolen.....

But people who steal things like burned CDs out of people's cars....air fresheners, deoderant (someone stole my deoderant out of my gym bag in my car in high school) coins, car wash tokens, etc etc.......they must really, really need it worse than me if they are taking legal risks to do that. And they'll be really disappointed when they listen to my super 80s CDs and try to use my old car wash tokens for a car wash that doesn't exist anymore........

Another funny theft story. I had an acquaintance (you'll see why I ditched her in a sentence or so)....she was a little flakey but I gave her a chance. She came over one night and wanted to use my bathroom to freshen up before we went out. She stole my $4 Maybelline Great Lash mascara and my $5 ZapZit cream. Then she stole my $10-$15 PAYLESS platforms and left her $80 Adidas shoes behind. I found this out when I returned later. And I kept the $80 Adidas shoes.

[RootedPhoenix]

Another funny theft story. I had an acquaintance (you'll see why I ditched her in a sentence or so)....she was a little flakey but I gave her a chance. She came over one night and wanted to use my bathroom to freshen up before we went out. She stole my $4 Maybelline Great Lash mascara and my $5 ZapZit cream. Then she stole my $10-$15 PAYLESS platforms and left her $80 Adidas shoes behind. I found this out when I returned later. And I kept the $80 Adidas shoes.

Usually one steals things to improve one's situation. Wow.

[Broomjockey]

Usually one steals things to improve one's situation. Wow.

Sounds like kleptomania, to me. Quite often, it's not the keeping, or using, but simply the taking, so if they find something else, they'll leave behind the previous. Still not acceptable behaviour, but a possible explanation.

[blas]

I didn't stick around her long enough to figure out if she was a true klepto or just stupid. I think Broomjockey's explanation is pretty much the best so far.

I just wasn't going to let her steal anything else from me!

[Broomjockey]

I just wasn't going to let her steal anything else from me!

Good idea. Klepto or stupid, best to kick her to the curb before something you needed went "missing."

[MergedLoki]

See in HER mind. 50 cents is still enough to take the trollee to see the matinee and get a moon pie... with a nickel left over.

[protege]

I had someone break into my car once, right outside my then-girlfriend's building. We'd just come back from the grocery store, and possibly forgot to lock the car. Pretty damn scary, considering all the expensive crap that was in there--some of my model train stuff, tools, several CDs, things I'd bought at the hobby shop earlier that night, etc. Anyone want to guess what was taken?

Whoever got into the car, left all that stuff behind...and took my parking pass. Seems they thought it was a card to get into her building--same size and color, etc. I'm sure it drove them nuts as to why it didn't work

[MergedLoki]

I had my car broken into once.

There was a laptop in the backseat, the radio was a detatchable one worth (then) about $300.

and I had a bunch of cd's (this was a few years back, mp3's players weren't around in big numbers yet).

Anyways, laptop was fine, stereo fine.

this guy took my case full of cd's. But the jokes on him.

they were ALL burned discs of some of THE WORST music you can imagine.

hmm I think there was some vanilla ice, right said fred etc. (pick a bad/cheesy song in the last 20 years and it was probably on there).

Because me and my friends had just made a bunch of the cd's in order to drive by and piss off all the lil skids and wannabe gangsters that liked to hang outside of the corner store by my house (why did they hand there? I have no idea but they were annoying so we enjoyed pissing them off by blaring some vanilla ice while driving by at about 10 KPH) :P

so yea.. this woul dbe thief left anything of value and stole useless crappy cd's that would have probably been listened to once or twice.

[protege]

Because me and my friends had just made a bunch of the cd's in order to drive by and piss off all the lil skids and wannabe gangsters that liked to hang outside of the corner store by my house (why did they hand there? I have no idea but they were annoying so we enjoyed pissing them off by blaring some vanilla ice while driving by at about 10 KPH) :P

Damn, and I thought I was the only one who did that I have several CDs worth of annoying music for such occasions. You haven't lived, until you've pulled up at the lights in your Mazda...while blasting the "Zoom zoom zoom" song