Originally Posted by
JBord
Perhaps noticing the OP's FT handle would have made you less surprised about this 
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I agree. What's a book?
I stress about leaving my kindle or phone.
I've often thought of dragging an old book around with me on vacations to save a pool lounge chair, but not to restaurants.
LOL--Oh I noticed.
I used to do this all the time. Those chair vultures at resorts in Mexico would sometimes just throw the book aside and sit on the chair anyway & play dumb when confronted. It was brutal.
Originally Posted by
gaobest
totally. I’m amazed with people who leave stuff as if it’ll just be safely respected. Thieves break into cars to take things. Why wouldn’t they take a device or jacket that is left on a table? Just such a disaster.
Obviously your experience is different but the parking lot at my Costco is always packed with people both in and out of cars. It takes less than 10 seconds to return a cart which is certainly not enough time to
break into a car, grab groceries and run to a getaway car or run through the lot with arms full of food. Do you honestly see this happen...ever? What kind of paranoia makes you think that people are hanging around a Costco lot waiting to pounce on somebody's groceries in a few seconds? It doesn't sound like a very profitable way to be a thief. As I said in the Costco thread, if that really concerns you maybe instacart is the way to get your Costco stuff.
No one is saying to leave a rolex watch on a table but in the OP's case it was a root beer that he just got from the restaurant and it was not stolen. Maybe I just don't hang out in unsafe places but I do think most people are honest. Just last week, a friend drove off with her purse on the roof of her car and another car stopped and picked it up and chased her down and honked at her and gave her the purse back.
Way OT...sorry.