Arghhh ridiculous rant!!!

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This is completely pathetic and don't quite understand why it's bothering me so much but...
A certain someone on the yard keeps using my wooden spoon and not putting it back!!!!!!
I think I need help its so ridiculous but bugs me so much partly because they have to go into my storage draws to get it then leave it on their feed bins next to their broken spoon!!! Rahhh rant over sorry just had to vent! I will just add I am more than happy to lend anything just expect it to be returned to the right place :)
 
nope would bug me too - I reckon though that wood is the perfect surface to write a personal note in permanent marker on to the "borrower" so that when it's on their bin it just cries out that it's stolen :)
 
I would buy them one and proudly present it at a busy moment so everyone hears saying. 'Now you won't have to keep rummaging through my things to use mine'

But then I'm a sarcastic cow!
 
Oh no I sympathise and I'm not at a yard! My daughter/oh find it totally impossible to put the wooden spoon back in the little ring! It's a minor offence I know but when your trying to do horses quickly before work in the morning it's best not to be locating a b****y spoon!
 
On a more serious note; we have a Stanley knife for cutting the bale twine; One of the liveries never puts it back ( has its own hook :) ) she found it in her horses bed must have been weeks later :( she had left it on the straw; and no she doesn't muck out properly either else she would have found it the next day. I have told them all ( I am YO ) to be more careful. It doesn't take much to tidy up
 
Not ridiculous rant...perfectly normal! :)

I once became so incensed because someone borrowed the old dish washing brush that I use to clean my buckets (and didn't return it) that I took it back and locked it in a cupboard.

OK...it only cost me 59p and I would have happily lent it to them had they asked....it's just the taking without asking and then not giving it back that winds me up!
 
I just write stuff that goes walk about in the yard board now. Something like
To who ever decided that my "fork/spoon/brush" needed a walk, it doesn't, please put it back" if it's not returned then another notice goes up.
 
Wow! All this passive aggressive note leaving, spoon presenting....no wonder some livery yards have horrid atmospheres.if you know who the culprit is then why not just say to her face
'Hi xx, I've noticed you've been borrowing my feed spoon to mix your feeds. I really don't mind but please could you put it back in the cupboard where you found it...it does annoy me a bit when I'm in a rush & I can't find it because its been moved'
And likewise
'Hi xx, I know this probably makes me sound like a right mardy moo but please could you not leave your buckets on my feed bins. Thank you'

Surely it's that simple, no?
 
It's not that simple though. Some people "borrow" stuff and are incredibly huffy when asked not to. It's MY stuff and I don't want to replace it when it invariably breaks like their own item. I do tie my things and everything has my name on in black marker pen.
 
I hated people using my stuff and breaking it/not returning it! So glad I'm by myself now. I don't miss livery one little bit!!
I bought my own fork, I found it a few days later with all the prongs bent! My feed bucket was used, as was my hi-viz sheet. My girth was also stolen!
I am very bitter about it, as despite politely asking not to and notes, it went on until I was kicked out!
 
Fair enough 9tails, but most people get 'huffy' as a defence because they know they're in the wrong.
Personally I think you have 2 choices :
- make it impossible for people to borrow your things. Lock away, tie up.
- or if things get borrowed ask people not to use them (if you mind) or make sure they are put back & replaced if damaged (if you don't mind)

The only time I've ever left a note was when a girl was stealing feed from me. I never confronted her as I felt it would cause too much aggro. Instead I left a note in my feed bin saying.
'Dear X,
I know that you are stealing & that you have been doing it for a while. This is your last chance to stop if it doesn't I will let the YO & everyone else know what you are doing'

Obviously she couldn't ever admit to have seen the note because it would've been an admission of guilt but it worked & the sticky fingers stopped.
 
glamourpuss said:
Fair enough 9tails, but most people get 'huffy' as a defence because they know they're in the wrong.
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Sure, but when you get the hairy eyeball every day because you dared to demand a replacement it becomes quite tiresome. Better to stop it in its tracks rather than having a polite word.
 
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