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Oh man all this talk of stationery reminds me: when I was about ten there was a stationery thief in my school. She (and I say she because I am 90% sure I know exactly who it was) used to mostly steal gel pens, but she also took a set of mini erasers I had. I never got the damn thing back. D< I tried to hard to find out where it had got to but no luck.

And here's the weird part, and the part that makes me so sure I know who took it: one of the girls in my class, E, confided in me that she knew the thief was another girl, R. I think maybe she wanted me to back her up when she went to a teacher, but I really liked R so I didn't want to believe her. Then a while after all my ranting about my mini erasers, R came into school with another set and told me she'd 'found mine'. I told her that it was not my set as it was a different colour, and it was also brand new. She insisted that it was mine, and when I insisted that it was not, she said she would hand it in to a teacher.

So yeah, R totally took my erasers, realised I was actually very attached to them, felt bad, and tried to replace them. No idea what happened to the original set.

I'm not sure whether I feel bad for not turning her in or not - she was almost certainly the thief and she caused a whole lot of trouble, but I kind of get it? Gel pens and pretty stationery in general was a huge status thing at my school, and from what I know of her home life and her family, it was pretty clear even at the time that she just didn't have the resources. I think even when I was that young I kind of saw her as a victim of our ridiculous materialism.

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Aw, that really is sad. :(

I think that the fact she tried to replace it when she saw how much it hurt you lose the set speaks well of her.

I mean, it doesn't excuse the fact that she went on a thieving spree, but I can't say I'm unsympathetic to her given the context.

Yeah, pretty colorful items were kind of a big deal back then and could earn you attention and "friends", or at least a little respect, so I can see the desperation.

I could be wrong about the circumstances behind the replacement erasers but I can't think of any other explanation that makes sense - if it wasn't her then why didn't she just say 'here, I bought you another set'? xD On the plus side I think I did eventually find somewhere else that sold those erasers and got a new set so there was that.

Yeahhh. I totally understand the desperation - even if it wasn't her, I feel bad for whoever stole all those gel pens. There's something so pathetically sad about risking getting into that much shit (I mean they were searching people's bags for stolen gel pens, they would have searched lockers if we had them) over some pretty-coloured pens.

Oh god, I was a kid who stole stuff. I'm so sorry.

The worst thing I did was steal these tickets the teacher gave out for good work hat you could turn in at the end of the year for a prize. I was always out sick and had way less than anyone in the class. So since I had to stay later while waiting for my Mom, I would sneak into the empty classroom and take a few tickets from whoever was stupid enough not to take them home. Then of course I found myself in deep shit when I couldn't explain how I had so many, but for someone reason I was never called out for it. Some of the girls I stole from used to count their tickets loudly in front of each other and knew exactly how many they had.

God it's been years and I feel so bad about doing that.

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