[AnonChick]

This whole passive-aggressive stuff is mindboggling to me. When in Rome? They didn't KNOW? How could they not know? The concept of "sharing" is something taught in kindergarten. The concept of "don't claim what isn't yours" is something taught right along with the concept of sharing.

Are you really all justifying rude, childish, selfish behavior as ignorance? You're excusing it, patronising the offender, and saying "oh there there, it's okay, you just didn't know."

Of course they knew. I mean unless they were brought up in 'the hood' where turf wars are faught with knives and guns and every man for himself and if little Susie didn't carve her name in blood on the chair, then someone else was gonna steal it from her...

But I'm getting the impression that the Villages has a slightly higher caliber of residents.

The poachers know better. But they know you'll excuse them, and justify them, and not say anything to them, and probably even become one of them if they keep doing it enough times. And so they'll continue to poach.