Taking Without Owner's Consent. Evidently it was a bigger problem in my part of Teesside back in the day than it was in yours, otherwise the slang/abbreviation would be instantly familiar. :-) (It may well also be the case that having gone to a boys' school rather than a girls' school altered the usual topics of conversation.)
I had a suspicion that there might be something like that involved. A bloke I know went on holiday some years ago and left his house in the care of a housesitter. On his return, it turned out that some of his valuables were missing. It also turned out that housesitter's boyfriend had got her into drugs. Nothing could ever be proved, but... (As it happens, said bloke I know is reasonably near the top of my Bad Books for unrelated weaknesses of mind and short-sighted, greedy decisions, so I'm not too unhappy about it.) Time to (get your landlord to?) add new locks, I fear.
Going back about three messages: yes, I do remember Frances. Kindly pass on my compliments of the season to her.
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Re: As ever...
Date: 2002-12-13 07:41 am (UTC)I had a suspicion that there might be something like that involved. A bloke I know went on holiday some years ago and left his house in the care of a housesitter. On his return, it turned out that some of his valuables were missing. It also turned out that housesitter's boyfriend had got her into drugs. Nothing could ever be proved, but... (As it happens, said bloke I know is reasonably near the top of my Bad Books for unrelated weaknesses of mind and short-sighted, greedy decisions, so I'm not too unhappy about it.) Time to (get your landlord to?) add new locks, I fear.
Going back about three messages: yes, I do remember Frances. Kindly pass on my compliments of the season to her.