Here is a fun little story about the start of my day. Hope this is ok to post here, this seems like the best forum.
Getting ready to take my son's sleep over guest home this morning before work, I noticed a sleeve from my son's water deck on the floor. Hmm, that's odd. But we sometimes have loose deck sleeves when we borrow cards for other deck builds so it may have fallen out by mistake. Then, by chance, I asked my son to get me the binder where we keep our lv.X, ex, and rare foil starters (absol, pachi, etc). He couldn't find it, but our guest knew where it was. Turns out he had fallen asleep with it looking the cards last night. OK... hmm... I'm not to crazy about that... but kids will be kids and no harm done. The guest hands me the binder...one of my absol's is missing. He nervously tells me it must have fallen out while he was looking at them last night. We search the bed for it. No luck. He goes and "finds" it in the play room. I then notice several open spaces in the binder. I ask my son and guest where the cards might be. My son has no idea. Our guest mumbles something about how he had brought some cards over and maybe he put them with those by mistake. He then pulls the following cards out of his pocket (no sleeves or protectors mind you).
including:
Flygon EX
Dialga lv.X
Torrterra lv.X
Infernape lv.X (taken out of a deck box and unsleeved from my deck) - when asked the guest was able to "find" the sleeve from under son's bed
Blastoise SW holo
Suicune SW holo (taken out of a deck box and unsleeved from my son's water deck) - this is the sleeve I found
Empoleon lx. X
Basically this kid had been systematically pulling rare cards from our decks and our binder last night and this morning. Luckily none of the cards were damaged and luckily I had a whim to check the binder before he left. I am pretty sure guest never had any cards of his own over here.
He not only tried to steal these cards but broke up 2 decks to do it. I am a tad miffed.
We didn't accuse him or make a scene, but I made sure he checked to see if he had mistakingly "picked" up any more cards. Needless to say I had to use my best poker face and tantric breathing to remain calm enough to collect our cards, do a quick card inventory, help him gather his things, and then drive the kid home. It was a long and quiet car ride.
Not sure how I will handle this. But at least our cards are safe. We also didn't make a big deal about it with our son and never mentioned "stealing", but the first thing our son asked my wife was: "do you think ______ was trying to steal these cards?"
Sorry for the long post but I had to share. The trust and invasion by a guest in our house is what really gets to me, that plus my son's feelings about a "friend" doing something like this.
I am just glad I happened to check before these cards left and got damaged or lost for good.
Anyone else have any stories like this? How did you handle it?
Getting ready to take my son's sleep over guest home this morning before work, I noticed a sleeve from my son's water deck on the floor. Hmm, that's odd. But we sometimes have loose deck sleeves when we borrow cards for other deck builds so it may have fallen out by mistake. Then, by chance, I asked my son to get me the binder where we keep our lv.X, ex, and rare foil starters (absol, pachi, etc). He couldn't find it, but our guest knew where it was. Turns out he had fallen asleep with it looking the cards last night. OK... hmm... I'm not to crazy about that... but kids will be kids and no harm done. The guest hands me the binder...one of my absol's is missing. He nervously tells me it must have fallen out while he was looking at them last night. We search the bed for it. No luck. He goes and "finds" it in the play room. I then notice several open spaces in the binder. I ask my son and guest where the cards might be. My son has no idea. Our guest mumbles something about how he had brought some cards over and maybe he put them with those by mistake. He then pulls the following cards out of his pocket (no sleeves or protectors mind you).
including:
Flygon EX
Dialga lv.X
Torrterra lv.X
Infernape lv.X (taken out of a deck box and unsleeved from my deck) - when asked the guest was able to "find" the sleeve from under son's bed
Blastoise SW holo
Suicune SW holo (taken out of a deck box and unsleeved from my son's water deck) - this is the sleeve I found
Empoleon lx. X
Basically this kid had been systematically pulling rare cards from our decks and our binder last night and this morning. Luckily none of the cards were damaged and luckily I had a whim to check the binder before he left. I am pretty sure guest never had any cards of his own over here.
He not only tried to steal these cards but broke up 2 decks to do it. I am a tad miffed.
We didn't accuse him or make a scene, but I made sure he checked to see if he had mistakingly "picked" up any more cards. Needless to say I had to use my best poker face and tantric breathing to remain calm enough to collect our cards, do a quick card inventory, help him gather his things, and then drive the kid home. It was a long and quiet car ride.
Not sure how I will handle this. But at least our cards are safe. We also didn't make a big deal about it with our son and never mentioned "stealing", but the first thing our son asked my wife was: "do you think ______ was trying to steal these cards?"
Sorry for the long post but I had to share. The trust and invasion by a guest in our house is what really gets to me, that plus my son's feelings about a "friend" doing something like this.
I am just glad I happened to check before these cards left and got damaged or lost for good.
Anyone else have any stories like this? How did you handle it?