Do you steal pencils?

[Baron von Blitztank]

Simple question, do you steal stationary?
Pens, pencils, paper, highlighters, rulers, etc. Do you get an urge to steal these things when they are just lying on a desk and nobody is watching?

I for one, do it all the time. I go into school with around 2 pens and a pencil and I come back with 4 more pens by the end of the day.

 

[Jedoro]

I'll take 'em off the floor, but if it's on a desk I figure someone will come back for it.

 

[Bobic]

I come back with 4 more pens by the end of the day.

Wait, you gain 4 pens a day? What do you do with them all?

 

[Monolight]

That's kleptomania. No, I don't think I ever did it.

 

[Dimitriov]

No, but I sometimes give them to people who try to steal them.

Give them a pencil right in the %&^#&^ chest!

 

[kebab4you]

I do not, as far as thieving go I find that very pathetic... Who is such a slob that he loses that many pens/rubbers per day that he needs to STEAL it from others?[footnote]I know this wasn't with your case but that´s the only reason I can think of for someone to go around stealing such cheap stuff[/footnote]o_o

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

I come back with 4 more pens by the end of the day.

Wait, you gain 4 pens a day? What do you do with them all?

Well not exactly every day, but I do usually come back with more than what I came in with.

As for what I do with them, I just put them in a pot on my desk

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

If I saw one in the hallway back in my Highschool days, I grabbed it. Nowadays I don't need pencils on a daily basis so no. I've retired.

 

[mcdain]

I don't steal pencils. That's just silly.

Those free tiny Ikea pencils, now that's a different story...

 

[Colour Scientist]

No, when I was in school I bought my own shit. Obviously before I could get my own money my Mom did.

It pissed me off when people took my things.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Stole? No. However, I worked as a janitor cleaning classrooms and you would not believe the stuff students would leave behind.

I didn't have to buy pens or pencils for 3 years thanks to all the forgetful college kids.

 

[Sun Flash]

Not a school, no. But we got as many pens from people coming to talk to us in Social Ed classes, we were drowning under free pens/pencils/highlighters with sticky tabs on them.

Although I did and still do with Ikea and Argos pens*. It's almost a sport.

*[sub]I don't even know he last time I went in either of those places, I'd just like to point out I'm not some serial stationary bandit.[/sub]

 

[Vegosiux]

No, I don't, but for the life of me, I can't seem to stop forgetting to pick my own up after leaving them on a desk!

 

[Makhiel]

Well, the only place I ever left with an abundance of pencils that I haven't previously bought is IKEA but that's what the pencils are there for, isn't it?

Otherwise no, more so that I study Computer Science and it's kinda hard to stumble upon a pen at our university.

 

[fenrizz]

Yes, yes I do.

Only pens though.
One can never have too many pens.

 

[Dogstile]

It pissed me off when people took my things.

To be fair, if you don't care enough about it to leave it behind on a desk for half a day (edit: exaggeration, even half an hour works here), i'm not surprised it was taken.

Which is why I have a pen that cost me four quid. Overpriced as hell but i'll never forget it again.

 

[doomspore98]

seeing that pens are a lot more expensive than pencils, i only steel pencils

 

[Badong]

I steal any miscellaneous item lying around in my classroom, assuming that no one is around.

 

[Flip-Shying]

I would take a pencil with the intention of giving it back but I would completely forget to.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I used to steal everyone's pens at school, but always gave them back (usually when they started looking around to see where it went, but otherwise at the end of the class). Just training my stealth and pickpocket skills, nothing more.
Now I'm usually the one whose pens are stolen, but now I don't get 'em back.