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Just discovered two Barnes and Noble gift cards were missing out of two bags under our Christmas tree. The only people that have been in our house over the past week were workers installing wood flooring.

About 5 years ago, we got a new microwave. We think that guy went into the next cabinet and took out a camera and walked off with it.

We are way too trusting. I swear the next time someone comes in to work I'm going to hover over them like a hawk. My wife had to leave for a few minutes last week, and I'm sure they took that opportunity.

Hopefully they are really broke and really needed something for their kids, otherwise it just ticks me off to no end. We always make sure we have Cokes and such for the workers, are always nice to them, and this is how you get paid back.

I don't think I would ever let people run free in our home, and that's in SD. I guess I have had my wife meet a plumber or something at home, but if I was in Chicago, I wouldn't even dream of that.

And if people are crooks, they really don't believe in Christmas anyway, so it isn't any big thing to them. Just easy pickings.

My parents had their credit card stolen in Vegas last week. It wasn't physically stolen, but whoever it was even took that 3 digit code and went nuts online (thousands of dollars). Luckily, they're not responsible for the unauthorized activity. They should change the whole giving your credit card to restaurants, etc. and just swipe it at the table as it seems like most European restaurants do. What's the success rate of catching these people anyway?

We also think we were ripped off by maintenance people in the past, but we had no proof. Since we checked the next day, it was either the maintenance people or the pizza place. The strange thing was they paid off an Ameren bill which listed an address???

planet pujolsian wrote:My parents had their credit card stolen in Vegas last week. It wasn't physically stolen, but whoever it was even took that 3 digit code and went nuts online (thousands of dollars). Luckily, they're not responsible for the unauthorized activity. They should change the whole giving your credit card to restaurants, etc. and just swipe it at the table as it seems like most European restaurants do. What's the success rate of catching these people anyway?

We also think we were ripped off by maintenance people in the past, but we had no proof. Since we checked the next day, it was either the maintenance people or the pizza place. The strange thing was they paid off an Ameren bill which listed an address???

We had that last month! Apparently they figured out that I couldn't have bought gas in Richland Center, WI AND bought a TV in Mississippi the same day, so they caught it.

Halloween thieves suck too, so you can't leave them out of this rant.

Ah, never mind.

Dog took the stuff into her crate. Found it this morning.

jim wrote:Ah, never mind.

Dog took the stuff into her crate. Found it this morning.

Sure, blame the flooring guys.

cardinalkarp wrote:

jim wrote:Ah, never mind.

Dog took the stuff into her crate. Found it this morning.

Sure, blame the flooring guys.

I know we are too trusting, we left them in the house alone for an hour and a half. They seemed like good guys, so my wife felt comfortable running some errands. Dumb I know, but I'd rather be too trusting than cynical in life.

So when we see the bags still under the tree but the Barnes and Noble gift cards gone, we naturally assumed it had to have been one of the workers. I woke up feeling fine about it, because I know one guy had a house full of kids and probably had a tough time finding work because he couldn't speak english. At least I think he did, my Spanish is a little rusty. So I woke up this morning with charity in my heart, hoping some little kid got a little something under the tree. I really did. I figured they didn't take the crystal, they didn't take the china, they took a couple of crummy gift cards to a book store. Sounded to me like someone really needing a present for Christmas.

But who would have thought that the dog would root through the bag to get the card? Why? Why would she do that?

Bizarre, and yet another life lesson learned. Maybe I can apply it to steroid use in baseball.

Did you ever wonder why the flooring guys had taken the card and crapped in the bag?

jim wrote:But who would have thought that the dog would root through the bag to get the card? Why? Why would she do that?

To teach you a lesson, Scrooge.