Stealin from the street.

So I was going to post this blog Tuesday...but didn't get to it so here it is.

Tuesday was my dad off from WORK so spent the day doing some errands with my dad. Drove to Costco and did some grocery shopping. We also went to Mcdonald's for lunch and used our FREE frapp or smoothie coupon that my dad got from I want to say the Examiner...some free newspaper. Anyways, after all of that my dad had to do some apartment stuff which was near Dolores Park and we decided to walk around a bit for some air and "exercise". As we walked back to the car my dad takes someone's newspaper that was left at their front door. I don't know WHY my dad does this but he is always "stealing" newspapers. I told him,Dad that's stealing" and he always tells me, "They left it out there, it's not stealing. It's been out there for a while now." And he throws in that it's a free newspaper so I let it pass. Lucky for us in this bundle of free stolen newspaper was ANOTHER Mcdonalds smoothie/frapp coupon. WOOT. Ok to be clear at this point we had 3 coupons - 1 coupon that we just used + the 1 we just found. We keep walking and see another cluster of papers (outside of the plastic bag), by this time my dad recognizes this issue of the newspaper and looks and WA LAH another coupon. We are now at 4 coupons. Keep on walking and we stumble along another one and "steal" their coupon. All this time I wonder is this ethical? But justify it with it's a free newspaper and at least point we're only taking a coupon.

OK now here comes the good part. Well this happens in between finding coupon 4 and coupon 5. My dad stops to tie his shoe lace on the corner of the block next to a metal baracade thing, you know those things they use are parades or to block off roads? Well hanging on it was a brown circle scarf. And I was like hey....and ask do you think I can take this? To preface lately we've been seeing a lot of things people are leaving on the side walk for people to take near our block (I got a really nice coffee machine). My dad goes sure! And I was like but what is someone left it and they forgot it? Because obviously this was not a here take this I'm putting it outside of my house kinda thing. But my dad says well it's probably been there a long time because I forgot what he said it had something to do with it being the weekday and most people only going to this park usually during the weekend...And he says they probably won't come back to get it and if you don't take it it'll just sit there or someone else will. SO......I took it and it is in the wash.

So my question for all of yall is what is EXACTLY is stealing? How to you define it? Are there exceptions?

Just something to think about (p.s this has gotten me to consider creating a blog of random things i think about...i just MIGHT do it, but for now just the summer thing)