Why did you steal that!?

[greek_jester]

My bank has got around that by putting boxes by each cashier & a few on the ledges around the bit where you wait filled with pens. On the front of each box is a note saying that you can keep the pens when you're done with them if you want. Weirdly, people rarely do. They all get dumped in the hole you pass bits through under the glass at the cashier's station.

[MoonCat]

For some reason this reminds me of the time the cops caught this couple stealing a rose bush out of the city park. They have a big rose garden that is very well known in the area. They caught these two old farts...they were in their late 60s, IIRC...with shovels and the rose bush.

[crazylegs]

When working for The Chemists we had to put security tags in the loo rolls in the customer toilets. Why anyone would want to steal that stuff is beyond me, it was like tracing paper...

[Lace Neil Singer]

Confession here; back when I was at school and very interested in art, I used to go to a certain public loo and steal the tracing paper loo roll they had there, cuz it was exactly like tracing paper, could be used as such and also free. XD I also wasn't the only one doing it. I'm pretty sure that was the reason why the council eventually started putting soft loo roll in their public loos...

[greek_jester]

...back when I was at school and very interested in art, I used to go to a certain public loo and steal the tracing paper loo roll they had there, cuz it was exactly like tracing paper, could be used as such and also free...

Actually, we used to have the same stuff in infant & junior school, & whenever we ran out of tracing paper the teacher used to send one of us down to the loo to grab a few dozen sheets. I bumped into one of my old teachers years later, & she said that the school's tracing paper budget tripled when they started using real loo roll!

[Lace Neil Singer]

I bet the council members were puzzled tho as to why anyone would want to steal the tracing paper loo roll.

[Ironclad Alibi]

That tracing paper loo roll has a different name in the US. Over here we call it John Wayne toilet paper.

John Wayne toilet paper – Term used to describe the low grade toilet paper found in public and institutional restrooms. Called so because it’s rough, tough and don’t take shit off of anybody. Can also be used in place of extra fine grit sandpaper when refinishing furniture.

[ADeMartino]

That tracing paper loo roll has a different name in the US. Over here we call it John Wayne toilet paper.

*I* call it 40-grit. 'cause that's what it feels like.