Stealing Paper

theSun is a good newspaper with some salient points and opinions peppered here and there within. There are some good writers whose columns I consistently read. People like Jacqueline Ann Surin, and Tan Siok Choo. theSun is also a free newspaper that is freely distributed at news stands, coffee shops and other drop points.

So, I was in a coffee shop yesterday, planning to have breakfast before I go befuddle myself with Law 101 (Law has its own set of perverse logic – one which I cannot quite follow). I picked up a copy of theSun, which was stacked in a pile by the counter, found a table, and put my bag and newspaper down on the table.

Then I went to get some food (it was a self serve place). I paid and returned to my seat. Lo and behold! The newspaper is gone. My bag was still there, but the newspaper was taken.

Why would people steal FREE newspaper? I mean, there is a pile stacked by the counter. Would it kill to walk a few extra steps to get it from the counter? (well, I answered the question why people would steal free newspaper – for convenience’s sake)

Anyways, disgruntled, I went to get a second copy of the newspaper for myself and ate breakfast.

Then last night, after a failed attempt to watch TNMT (stupid cinema listings listed the times wrongly on their site), I went to McDonald’s and had a pretty intellectual talk with Ke Pang and Abel – well, mostly about sociopaths/psychopaths and their cognitive processes (Ke Pang is a psych grad).

Anyways, I saw a copy of theEdge sitting beside Ronald McDonald. theEdge is a 5-dollar weekly magazine (though usually I get them for free). No one claimed theEdge beside Ronald McDonald for about 20 mins. I took it.