Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
When I started work in the 1950's to take small items from work, a pencil, ballpoint pen, some envelopes etc was considered by most people to be theft ...

... or, to take this concept a [ridiculous] stage further ... albeit not work-related:

On one occasion when I accompanied my son-in-law to a Tesco superstore in Aberdeen's outskirts, I left him to scout around for what he needed while I'd a glance through some of the magazines on display on the newspaper stands.

I was flabbergasted when he rebuked me, saying, "You DO realise that that's tantamount to STEALING? ... !". "In what WAY?", I asked him ... to which he replied: "Reading a book, paper or magazine without paying for it, amounts to nothing less than petty THEFT ... theft of newsprint!"