So while I was away last week for work my wife had one of her best friends and her kids out for a visit. Turns out one of the kids took the cable/dvr remote from our house & it was only found when his mother was unpacking his backpack the next day. They live almost 2hrs from us, so it's a bit of a pain to just run it back over. Well a week later and I'm like wtf? I get a bit of attitude from my wife and asked when they planned to return it. Now this remote is the cable company's and while not fancy I'm on the hook for $250 should it not be returned.
We wound up within 30mins of their house today running errands and I suggested that regardless of whatever else was going on someone from that household should at least meet us at one of our planned stops. This is when my wife started on her beotching saying that I was being a d!ck about it all. Turns out we had to drive 30 mins more out of our way to meet her friend to get the remote back. This delayed our dinner plans and causing us to get home a bit later than expected.
My view was/is that if you steal my stuff and are caught, I can either allow you to return it or call the police. Obviously I wasn't calling the cops on my wife's friend but that only leaves them returning it. I honestly feel that we should not have been imposed on to go pick it up, especially when we were already saving them 4hrs of driving if they had to drive to our house. My wife still insists I am overreacting and that "what's the big deal if we go me them".
So I put it to you all. Would you have held your ground that if someone stole from you that they should feel the pain to return it or make things right?
We wound up within 30mins of their house today running errands and I suggested that regardless of whatever else was going on someone from that household should at least meet us at one of our planned stops. This is when my wife started on her beotching saying that I was being a d!ck about it all. Turns out we had to drive 30 mins more out of our way to meet her friend to get the remote back. This delayed our dinner plans and causing us to get home a bit later than expected.
My view was/is that if you steal my stuff and are caught, I can either allow you to return it or call the police. Obviously I wasn't calling the cops on my wife's friend but that only leaves them returning it. I honestly feel that we should not have been imposed on to go pick it up, especially when we were already saving them 4hrs of driving if they had to drive to our house. My wife still insists I am overreacting and that "what's the big deal if we go me them".
So I put it to you all. Would you have held your ground that if someone stole from you that they should feel the pain to return it or make things right?