She stole from me!

@lilybug (21107)
United States
November 16, 2009 9:09am CST
I had an old friend over this past weekend that I had not seen in a few years. While she was there $20 of the money I had set aside for a bill showed up missing. I mentioned the money being missing and she totally ignored that I even said it and then immediately decided that she and her daughter needed to get home. She was walking out the door without even saying goodbye. So, I confronted her about it on her way out the door. She denied taking the money and got really angry and left. I know for a fact that I had $74 sitting in that spot. The only other person in the house that could have even reached the money is my 9 year old son and he knows better because that money is for the cable bill and without it we would not have cable or internet( 2 very important things to a 9 year old boy). Have you ever had someone steal from you? What did you do about it?
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15 responses
• India
17 Nov 09
if i had been got stolen i would have never doubted my friend!
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
19 Nov 09
The money was there when she came over and it was gone when she left. There was no one else who could have taken it. Nothing to doubt.
@eLsMarie (4346)
• Philippines
16 Nov 09
i haven't had this experience before but i would definitely ignore my friend if i knew that she stole something from me. i won't beg for her to return the material that he/she stole but i'll promise myself that i will no longer be friends with her/him.
• India
17 Nov 09
thats a very good answer i liked it grt repply els marie but try to understand y he did that before leaving him clear the air between you and him
@eLsMarie (4346)
• Philippines
19 Nov 09
thank you very much... :D i'll take that as a compliment...
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
23 Nov 09
Yes.....a long time ago I had a neighbor who stole from me.....she would come over for coffee and when I'd go to the bathroom or someplace I could hear her walk around....one year for my birthday she gave me a bottle of perfume that she had taken from my house!!!!!!! I nailed her with that one!!
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
23 Nov 09
That is really bad when she gave you back as a gift something that she stole from you. Apparently this girl has made a habit of stealing from people recently. One other friend of hers stopped talking to her because of it just the other day.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
19 Nov 09
I really really really hope that you are right in this. You probably are by the sounds of it. Still, well, I hope you are right. Years ago I was missing some money. It happened a couple of times and I was thinking it was my friend who was in and out of my house all the time. I mean I was seriously convinced that it was her & I am now so so glad that I did not confront her. I guess I felt that I needed some proof. Well then, a large amount of cash went missing from my house. I did not confront anyone but I did report it and I was determined to find out who it was. In the end, it was a woman whom I babysat for her son. She came into my home when I was not there and was taking things. I never ever would have guessed. I am so glad that I did not confront my friend.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
19 Nov 09
If I thought it could have been anyone else then I would not have said anything to her. Fact is she is the only one who could have taken it.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Nov 09
I am so sorry about this. Just yesterday the children and I wee talk about jewellery and I began to get really upset remembering a Yong man that I had befriended. He was a teenager and he would sometimes babysit for us when I only had the boys. He found my jewellery and took a a solid gold nugget that had an emerald (my birth stone) inserted into it. It was 22 carat gold - the chain that the nugget was one. He also took the first gift my husband gave me when we were engaged. This was antique (Victorian chain ND GOLD PENDANT AND IN HE POENDANT WERE SEVERAL RUBIES. not LARGE BUT WHEN i HAD IT INSURED THEY SAID THAT THE RUBIES WERE OF GOOD QUALITY. Sorry for caps - have to get back to work now. It is a violation isn't it? You feel invaded.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
19 Nov 09
I have spoken to a few other people since and there are a few more times when she has done things like this to friends apparently. Sad really.
@UnD1n3 (37)
• Malaysia
16 Nov 09
if i'm in ur shoes, i wouldnt want this kinda fren. if the relationship worths juz 20 dollars, wad gud would tat be?
• India
17 Nov 09
hey plz see in the view of ur friend
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
16 Nov 09
wow, what a betrayal of trust. I don't know how I'd feel about this.
@rsa101 (37932)
• Philippines
17 Nov 09
That is really bad that you lose that money. I hop you can replace them them so you would not have the trouble of getting disconnected. I am just disgusted that it was your friend that do that. In my case it was not money that was stolen but my son's PSP. We were in the middle of a storm when there came flash floods in our area. In our efforts to help our neighbours we allowed them to pass through their roof to our second floor balcony and to our bedroom to be able to pass free from the raging floods. Our PSP was just placed on the bed and after the neighbors pass through our bedroom the PSP was gone. I was so disappointed by the fact that we tried to help them and yet they managed to stole something from us. I trusted them to help them but they were still taking advantage of our generosity. It was an experience that really broke my trust with our neighbor.
@Ithink (9980)
• United States
17 Nov 09
It is such a disappointment to realize someone thinks so little of you and your friendship to steal from you. I have had this happen and it really made me mad. I wouldnt let them over for a long time, now we do but only when me or my husband is here. You might ask why we would even do that. If it was just a friend I wouldnt but it is one of our children. That makes it even harder. I dont understand people like that either. I could never steal from a person like that not even my better off friends. It is just a total lack of caring and respect.
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
17 Nov 09
This actually happened twice to a friend of mine, what's worst is the fact that her sister-in-law obviously did it and everyone is covering her up! It first happened when she decided to go to a small gathering (hosted by the in-laws). Since it was a family gathering, it wasn't something formal, since she had her baby with her, the in-law's parents told her to put her things on the family room so as not to trouble her too much with all that she was carrying. But before she did so, her sister-in-law asked if she could borrow her cellphone because she wanted to buy the same unit. Being, family, she lent it to the sister-in-law, afterwhich the phone went missing. The sister-in-law said she had put the phone in her bag inside the room, the phone wasn't there. They even strip-searched the house to no avail. After a while (about 2 weeks), and after a lot of investigation. The cellphone was found by the in-law's mother in one of the sister-in-law's shoe boxes. My friend didn't question her anymore so as not to make the topic bigger. The sister-in-law defensively told everyone they knew (including those who didn't go to the party) about what had happened to seal her innocence. Then, several months after the incident, they met again in a gathering, and my friend lost some money with the sister-in-law the only person who went in the bedroom (since she claimed she was feeling sick). From then on, my friend never trusted her with her things anymore. It wasn't surprising though, that it has been known in their workplace (sister-in-law's workplace) that whenever she is around, something would go missing. And usually it's those things that she appreciates that'll go missing, then after a few days, the things would resurface. I think the sister-in-law is just sick. I had told my friend several times, if I was the victim of that incident, I would probably talk to her (sister-in-law) in private and recommend her a good doctor or a group before he stumbles over someone who could not think twice of beating her up.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
31 Dec 09
hi stealing and accusing someone of stealing are both difficult to do and if you are wrong wow. you have made an enemy. I would have insisted she empty her pockets and I think an innocent person would have readily agreed so as to prove she was innocent so I think she must have taken it.I have never had anyone take anything of great value but I did find a co resident who was going to go through mypurse which I had stupidly left sitting on the floor beside my chair as I walked across the room to look for a book I wanted to read in our little library. she claimed she was just going to put it on my chair,but then why was she unzipping the zipper where my billfold was and why was she holding my billfold? she could not explain and I counted out all my money so she had not had time to take it but I am sure she intended to. I had ninety dollars in t here. after that I either carried it on my shoulder or gave it to a coresident that I did trust to watch over it for me.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
16 Nov 09
I had a friend come live with me for a while because her and her husband were getting a divorce and she had nowhere to go. She later decided to get back with her husband but before she left, she took all my jewelry. I had had most of it since I was very yound and was devastated to have lost it. I guess I would have jerked her a new one had I ever run across her again but I have yet to see her. I have moved to another state but for months I looked in the pawn shops for the stuff. I hate that she stole from you. Take care.
@smartie0317 (1610)
• United States
21 Nov 09
Yes, actually, I had a similar experience to you, but I was very young at the time and didn't have any bills. It was about April or May and I still had left over birthday money. I had just turned 12. Anyway, I had this girl over my home and my grandmother was watching us. I thought she was my friend, but she wasn't. She got up to use my bathroom and had to pass where my coat was and I had a certain amount, I forget how much. However, when she left, me and my grandmother were going to go a story and I wanted to get something and I didn't have enough. I told my grandmother. My grandmother asked if I was sure I had that amount and I said yes. My grandmother didn't say anything. Later, when my mom came home from work, my grandmother told her she thought my friend stole money from me. My mom called her mom and her mom told her her daugther would never do such a thing. Now, being older and knowing this girl and her mom better, I know she took my money.
@maryann7 (17)
• Philippines
17 Nov 09
Hi lilybug, That was a horrible thing that your friend did to you. I guess she's not worth to be called as friend. A true friend would not steal from you. A person like that could not be trusted anymore. I don't have any experience like that but my mother had one. A friend of her who stayed overnight stole some money that my dad saved for my mom's delivery. My mom was 7 months pregnant that time. She don't have any other suspect because it was only her friend who was able to get in our house that day. After the incident maybe because of shame and conscience her friend did not show up to her ever again. maryann7
@dmrone (746)
• United States
16 Nov 09
Hi, lilybug! Yes, i have had this happen to me. It was my ex-husband who did it through my special needs child. My husband and i were running a family business, and we would take home the money at night (we did not have a safe to put it in at that time. My ex-husband would wait until we were all asleep, and tap on my son's bedroom window and have him go take some of the money for him. I confronted my ex-husband and told him if i ever caught him around my home again without my permission i was going to have him thrown in jail.