Today, my nice, elderly neighbour died suddenly and I was helping his family sort through his things. I realised a lot of his stuff was familiar. In fact it was a lot of stuff I’d lost over the years, including the year I moved in. The bastard had been stealing things from my house for 9 years. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was at an estate sale of my neighbor who recently passed. I recognized many items for sale that I had ordered or won on eBay from the past 8 years. Turns out the little old lady had been stealing my mail for close to a decade. FML
Today, my roommate of a year and good friend of several more decided to move out. When I came home from a long work shift, I found all the cupboards emptied out of everything, including all the new stuff I bought to replace what she was going to take with her. FML
Today, I found out that for the past 6 months I have been sleeping next to a dead body. The cremated body of my landlord's father. It was hidden inside a wardrobe that I was not supposed to use. FML
Today, I came home from a month long vacation to find my house absolutely trashed with a lot of valuable items missing. Burglary? Nope. My dad, who was meant to be house-sitting for me, let the neighbour's teenage son have several parties there in exchange for weed. FML
Today, as I was leaving for work, I discovered my neighbor had just passed away. I found out when I came across his body lying in my front yard. FML
Today, I found out that one of my best mates had his backpack, clothes, and everything else in it stolen at an airport overseas. I was feeling sorry for him all day. It took me 9 hours to remember that I actually loaned him my backpack for his trip. FML
Today, my neighbour asked me to empty and unplug their fridge while they were on a vacation. I took what I could use and threw away the rest. It looks like I also unknowingly threw away a bottle of spices that were handpicked by her uncle and handmade with love, which her son loves eating too. I feel like a jerk. FML
Today, my uncle kept his promise and left me his holiday house in his will. What he didn’t tell me was it’s been unmaintained for 14 years and is unfit for human habitation, has 2 mortgages, and now it and all its issues are now mine. Old, dead bastard. FML
Today, a "friend" tried to sell me a digital camera that I recognized that was stolen from my home a week earlier, along with a few other things. FML
Today, I was at work when I got a call to say my grandad died. When I was walking out to my car, I realised someone had stolen all my hubcaps. FML
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RichardPencil 32
You shouldn't call him a bastard. There was something clearly wrong with him. If he was selling your stuff off to support a Viagra habit so he could bone your mom, that would be a bastard. Hoarding your stuff means he had some kind of weird attachment to you.
AlanShore 12
He had been stealing from her since the day she moved in, over nine years. I think bastard is a fairly light term for this unless there is some revelation of other mental health issues. We can't just assume he had them because he did weird stuff. He may have, and that may explain it, but telling OP not to assume he didn't is the same as me telling you not to assume he did. Neither of us know.
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RichardPencil 32
You shouldn't call him a bastard. There was something clearly wrong with him. If he was selling your stuff off to support a Viagra habit so he could bone your mom, that would be a bastard. Hoarding your stuff means he had some kind of weird attachment to you.
AlanShore 12
He had been stealing from her since the day she moved in, over nine years. I think bastard is a fairly light term for this unless there is some revelation of other mental health issues. We can't just assume he had them because he did weird stuff. He may have, and that may explain it, but telling OP not to assume he didn't is the same as me telling you not to assume he did. Neither of us know.
RichardPencil 32
On the iPhone app, it appears that the OP is male. In either case, the old dude's hoarding is weird.
Sinshine 28
How did he get into your house to steal things in the first place? And how was it not fixed in NINE years?!