Do you think it's wrong to take

[Trigger Hippie]

Poll question: Do you think it's wrong to take

lots of extra salt and ketchup packets from fast food restaurants and the like? I know it's only for use at that place, but is it OK to take some home? Some people think it's a deadly sin to do this; I think they believe is just like stealing anything else. What do you think?

[davidinalameda]

1. do you think anyone actually buys Sweet and Low

from the store?

hell no!

I steal every little pink packet I can get my hands on

[Demit]

9. I buy it in the un-little-pink-packet form.

So that I can use a spoon. It would drive me crazy to constantly be tearing open little packets.

[Shell Beau]

2. I take Taco Bell's mild sauce home with

me everytime I go there. It is just too good! I guess I am a thief. Screw it!

[MissMillie]

I take them from our work cafeteria all the time

Whenever we have a family get-together and we're having a deli platter, I stock up on condiments from work so that we don't have to also bring a bottle of mayo or mustard or ketchup.

(Plus our cafeteria has yellow mustard, honey dijon, and spicy brown... so there's more variety.)

[XemaSab]

3. You're taking money from John Kerry

and furthering the republican reich when you fail to buy ketchup from the store!

[kick-ass-bob]

4. What about a bottle of Texas Pete?

I had a coworker who
1. Didn't buy anything
2. While walking past a table, lifted a full bottle of bbq sauce.

:eyes:

[Trigger Hippie]

5. Damn, that ballsy.

:rofl:

[kick-ass-bob]

7. she has also taken flowers from

the governor's mansion property.

:o

[Trigger Hippie]

8. Right on!!

Fight the power... by taking their purty flowers. :)

[Bassic]

6. It pisses me off when restaurants are too lazy

To put real bottles of ketchup on the table (i hate the packets) So I say taking a few packets away is only fair retribution. Of course since I hate those packets I don't exercise that right myself but I fully encourage it.

[smartvoter]

10. A must-do for Arby's sauce. nt

[Trigger Hippie]

13. Hahahahaha

I used to work at Arby's... Never really liked that sauce though. :hi:

[smartvoter]

21. Well, then,

there must be something wrong with you!!! :evilgrin:

[Trigger Hippie]

23. I think it must because I always smelled like

the sauce. I couldn't stand to eat it. :silly:

[smartvoter]

24. I would certainly understand that. Same with fries after being

around the grease all day -- it would be the end of fries for me.

[Greyhound]

11. Nominated for most pointless (obtuse) thread this week n/t

[Trigger Hippie]

12. Uh, OK. whatever. (n/t)

[no name no slogan]

14. this is the GREATEST THREAD EVER!!!!!!!

You mess with BushIsAPoohHead, you mess with me. :grr:

ON EDIT: NOMINATED!!!!! :P :+

[Trigger Hippie]

18. Thanks, doll. Glad you got my back...

[no name no slogan]

19. anytime, sweetcheeks

:* :pals:

[Greyhound]

26. LOL! OK, OK, I forgot it's the Lounge. My humble apologies.

[Trigger Hippie]

27. OK, no problem. Since it's not like this is GD.

There are plenty of goofy stuff going on in this forum. :)

[bertha katzenengel]

15. I wouldn't call it a deadly sin but I wouldn't do it.

They have to pay for that stuff. It's there for the use of their patrons with the meal the patrons purchase. :shrug: Not sure I'd call it pure stealing, but it is the behavior of the inconsiderate. It's like littering.

It's a fine line. Somewhat similar to drinking a soda while you're at the grocery store, then paying for it when you check out. Some folks think that's stealing.

[Trigger Hippie]

20. Yeah, I can see that it's kinda bad manners

to load up on those packets. But, if I'm standing in a long line, I do crack open my drink and start on it. I don't see it as stealing because I will pay for it. :hi: Bertha...

[bertha katzenengel]

25. I grab a soda first thing and drink it while i'm shopping.

Now, I grab a soda, pay for it, wrap the receipt around the bottle, and then start shopping. After a woman was very ugly to me for "stealing" ("You know that's stealing, don't you? I could call the police and have you arrested for shoplifting!").

It was her problem, but I don't need the embarrassment of being part of that scene. So I pay for the soda first.

[DrGonzoLives]

16. Take them

Fuck 'em, if they don't want them taken out by the armload, they should keep them behind the counter.

[no name no slogan]

17. I usually just take what I need

However, I will occassionally load up on toothpics, because I'm too cheap to buy them on my own :P

[StuckinBFE]

22. I normally load up on sauce packets before a backcountry trip

However if you want them take them those things cost nothing to a large corporation.

[Broadslidin]

28. During The Depression of The 1930s..........

After a day of hawking newspapers on a city corner
(Usually yelling: "Coolidge shoots Santa Claus")

My neighbor and his friends would buy bowls of soup
for 2 to 3 cents each and keep filling the bowl
with oyster crackers long after the soup was gone.

For flavor, they would continually pour on more ketchup.

When crude oil finally becomes a distant memory,
a couple enterprising urchins, waifs, and ragamuffins
might come up with the same enlightened :9 idea!

Maybe, even a future Heinz commercial......