# What have you gotten and kept that you weren't entitled to?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-gotten-and-kept-that-you-werent-entitled-to/504350 "2009-07-26T20:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-gotten-and-kept-that-you-werent-entitled-to/504350/101 "2009-10-05T17:34:34Z")

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> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> To you? Didn’t he even try to give it back to Rosemary?

He tried, but he ran out of thyme.

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**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-gotten-and-kept-that-you-werent-entitled-to/504350/102 "2009-10-05T18:16:37Z")

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Similar to the ham story, years ago I was coming out of a Wallyworld, with my three kids under five. Harried, and not much money, since I was a stay-at-home mom at this point. Every penny was budgeted. On the ground next to the cart stand was a five-pound package of hot dogs, still frozen. No one was around, so I scooped it up and took it home. We ate hot dogs for a whole week.  
I end up taking random pens/pencils home from my desk often, but I take a lot of my stuff from home to school, so it probably all evens out.

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