I came out on my porch and a little girl was stealing my big flower pot!

Well flower pots didn't go missing in my side of the world. But somebody did steal the clothes we hang to dry on the clothesline some years ago. The culprit was our neighbor as we found out later. Tsk, tsk...

It happens all the time. Flowers are plucked which grow along the fence. And let me confess I have done it too when I was little. For girls flowers are irresistible. they throw caution to the winds and just grab any flowers that they can pluck and then get ready to face the consequences!

That was very common here in my place, that's why I'm afraid to put my plants near the fence, because I know somebody will steal it not even child also an adult one. Sometimes they have purpose sometimes they just like to steal anything from the back yard. That's why my I have my Odie with me so that he was the one who guarded the house.

This made me smile. I was actually imagining the look on the kids face when you asked her where she was going with your flower pot, and then I smiled when she actually answered that way. At least she was honest. Our family house doesn't really have a yard, but we have a second floor porch with my brother's bonsai tree in a pot there. I don't think anyone could steal that or would even want to steal it.

ohh that is a bit uncanny! why would she do that??

Her parents probably didn't care to teach her that this is stealing, if she said she would tell her parents, it seems they don't even discourage her from doing it. I admit I felt like taking flowers from others' yard too when I was a little girl, especially roses! But I never did because I imagined those faces who lived there after noticing it, and that they would have no flower left if everybody took one.

Crazy! Do you know her parents at all? It seems like a bigger issue here. What if you hadnt caught her? We lose toys from time to time in our yard but its my childrens job to put them away in their toy bin. The toys we have lost were small items that I could see a toddler running off with. It makes you feel like nothing is safe anymore. Im sorry this happened to you.

That DOES NOT happen here! Much too rural...and my little ruffian..Brui (my Jack Russell Terrier), in all his bravado, is the typical "his bark is worse that his bite"...would never let some-one on the property unannounced. And if you could NOT see him, only hear him...you would not want to encounter that which is making the noise! One of the great things I do not miss from urbanization...."permanent borrowing!" I am almost betting..."the seed for this thievery"...was a double-dare...or a loudly uttered wish from the Mother! I do think, tho, I would have been the one to march her home, to tell her Mother...just to put them on notice that I was aware that there were "lightfingered" people there! The biggest thieves that I encounter here, the deer or raccoons..and Ravens!

hi just lost all of a lengthy response wham so copy paste on clipgboard. I was reminded of a new shiny transmission an elderly man had left in the gutter by the curb.in the city we then lived in people put stuff out for a special garbage truck to pick up twice a week. My son and his pal were just six and saw my husband working on our pickup. the little pal Bobby asked him what was he doing. My husband told them he needed a new transmission. Bobby grabbed our son 's hand and his big old red wagon and they took off. Ten minute latter there came the two boys with a shiny new transmission., My husband was really concerned as nobody throws out a brand new transmission. Just as he was ready to go up the street to find the owner of the new transmission an old man in a pickup pulled up; "Hi mr Hatley you seen your son and that Bobby kid with that big old red wagon?My husband laughed," hi mr. Garson, yes I think I have something that they picked up off the curb. they thought it was for the garbage collectors so they brought it to me." He handed Mr.Garson the new transmission. We all had a laugh as Mr.Garson told us he had laid it there just long enough to back his pick up out and then he saw the two little boys tugging the big old red wagon up the street. so he followed them to our house. I can just imagine what mr.Garson must have beenthinking when his new transmissionj just walked off.

Wow! that is odd! Perhaps she was mentally challenged? That's the only reason I can think of to give you. Maybe put large rocks at the bottom of your flower pots from now on to make them even more heavier?

no one has ever taken anything from my yard like that. However, I experienced something different. Whenever I left something at the dirty kitchen at the back of our house, if vanished without my knowledge. That was before the great thief living near our house was killed.

Is it by any chance mothers day where you are? Here, yesterday, it was Mother's Day (and also my mum's 50th). I think if I was a little girl and had no money to buy her something for her day, I might have been tempted to do something like that and to heck with the consequences. I'm sure there are a number of reasons that could have led to her doing what she did, hopefully she's learned her lesson and won't be doing it again.

In third world countries what you are talking about is happening even as you read this. People steal and no one leaves valuable stuff where it can be stolen. However in your case its simple, just a pretty little girl who fell in love with your flowers. Forgive and forget.