'My mom has sticky fingers': Mother steals $1,200 vase from hotel, gets caught and makes it her son's responsibility to get her out of the charges

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    Posted by u/Competitive_Oil5227 15 hours ago My mother has sticky fingers.
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    Today I got a package in the post from my mother. Which was odd, as she just came to visit me in chicago over Christmas.
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    I open it and there's a two foot tall Baccarat crystal vase in the package and a post it note that says 'please call me love mom' stuck to it.
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    I'm perplexed as I'm not a fancy crystal vase kind of guy. Well, turns out that she was staying in a fancy suite at a hotel over Christmas that had this
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    object displayed and she took a liking to it. So much so that she took it with her. As I looked at it I could see chunks of that white putty
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    that people use to stick things down with. So she literally must have pried it off. And the hotel noticed, as they added a $1200 line item to the bill that arrived. My mother
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    does not like it apparently that much. She also removed a robe, but I guess she is ok with paying $125 for that item as it was not included in her package.
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    So it's now my job to take this back to the hotel and explain to some poor desk person that my mother took it in error and could you please remove it from the bill.
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    Please tell me that they will do this? If they don't I will feel the full wrath of an old lady, as anything less than a full refund will be seen as a failure on my part.
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    Love Objective_Welcome_73. 14 hr. ago Call hotel, explain mom has a mental challenge, and offer to bring it in. Apologize and throw your mom under the bus, and hope they pity her, or pity you.
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    LingonberryPrior6896 11 hr. ago • Let them know she is being evaluated for dementia...(of course she can't stay there again)
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    93 Cassilac 13 hr. ago ● This is the only way. Otherwise tell mom to spend a couple hundred to come back and do it herself.
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    Danerys Targaryen 7 hr. ago ● This ^ .Yeah they aren't gonna buy the "mom accidentally packed this in her suitcase" when it was practically glued down and she pried it off and still has gobs of goop stuck to the bottom of it.
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    13auricles 4 hr. ago. ● edited 4 hr. ago I'm just imagining this woman struggling to wrench this 2 foot tall Crystal vase off a table and think no one is going to notice.
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    QuietDustt. 56 min. ago Or...mail back the items to mom, tell her she needs to handle the problem she created and set hard boundaries in your relationship for how she gets to treat you.
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    As the son of a controlling and immature mother, I fully understand that what I just suggested sounds impossible (not least because it would potentially/likely involve going no-contact for a time), but trust me, it's the best course of action in the long run.
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    handicrafthabitue 17 min. ago ● Here are some additional ways to throw her under the bus--or to at least prevent her from dragging you under it with her: She's not your mom, she's your MIL or crazy aunt. She didn't go straight home after checking out, she came to stay with you. She didn't
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    send you the vase, you found it while helping her repack her stuff because her suitcase was too heavy. You grilled her on where it came from and she claimed she bought it. You saw the putty and are calling to ask the hotel if they're missing any vases. You know nothing about a robe.
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    MandaMaelstrom 14 hr. ago. edited 3 hr. ago ● If you call, explain, and apologize up and down, hotel management might let it go. I tend to be a lot more sympathetic to the long- suffering family members of my problem guests than said guests themselves. Just
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    make it clear you're mortified by your mother's behavior. But on a ranty tangent, WHY can't people stop stealing our decorations??? We try hard to make our SO hotels pretty and welcoming, and guests just keep ruining it. They stole my cute little bobble-
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    headed leprechauns on St. Patrick's Day, they unscrewed the pineapples atop the luggage carts, they somehow carried off the gorgeous antique model ship that was nailed to the fireplace mantel, they tried to steal a whole sofa from the conference center...I
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    think the worst was a few weeks ago when a guest stole all of the shower curtain rings. Just the rings. They folded up the shower curtain. I'm just saying. If anyone thinks that modern hotels lack charm, there's a good reason why. All of our charm got freaking stolen.
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    "Apologize and throw your mom under the bus, and hope they pity her or pity you."

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