"every Village has an idiot"

I disagree. There are some villages that are so small they have to take it in turns to be the idiot.

When DH left BM, he took an extra set of silverware they had, unopened.

"Stolen cutlery" was a theme of many emails after that. Yeah, we still use the pilfered tableware.

LMAO! 

my own memories. My husband (now obviously ex) had an elderly aunt, she was a bit of a hoarder and when she passed not one local family member, not him not his 4 siblings, would organize so her daughter could deal with the estate. I offered. The daughter lived many states away and greatly appreciated my efforts. My ex and his siblings had no problem swooping in after the debris was hauled away, they took anything they wanted. When the daughter was able to get there, she asked me (who had done all the work myself) if I was interested in anything and I said I wouldn't mind having the old View Master, it's reels and attachments if no one else wanted them. No one did, she told me to keep them. Cool beans. When my ex and I divorced, surprising no one who knew him, he actually demanded that View Master be returned as it was his family item not mine. I refused. Stupid request, stupid man. He sent the police after his attempt to have it put in our court paper work as a "family heirloom" was denied. The police then had to contact his cousin and she told them it was a gift to me. Up until a few years ago when my ex passed away, he still reared his pathetic head once in a while demanding his birthright of a View Master, it's reels, and it's lighting attachment. Those items still live happily in my hall closet. I plan to be buried with them just to continue to piss off my ex.

This story made me laugh out loud. When DH and I were dating, BM angrily accused him of stealing some pillows that she swore SSs brought to DH's house. That was back in the days when SSs brought nothing with them, so it would have been easy - even for someone as unobservant as DH - to notice if SSs had shown up with pillows. Around Christmas, BM insisted that DH take SSs for a picture with Santa because she "didn't have time". Being a foolish, not-quite stepmother, I took SSs out to purchase shirts appropriate for such a picture. We got two collared, button-down plaid shirts at Marshall's or some similar discount store. I purchased these shirts with my own money. After BM saw the pictures, she again sent the list of all the things she claimed DH needed to "return" to her. The list included the infamous pillows (that were never at DH's house to begin with) and also the "colored shirts" from the photo. DH told her, "struggling bought those, they don't belong at your house."
 

BM was notorious for claiming things as her own that were not her own and also notorious for losing things in her pig sty of a house and claiming DH "stole" them. My favorite was when SS called DH crying to say he'd left his football pants at our house. I knew he hadn't because I had packed them up myself and put them in the back of DH's car with the rest of the football gear. Despite my assurance that I knew they had gone to BM's house, DH undertook a frantic search for said football pants, all the while receiving texts from BM that he had "ruined" SS's life because he did not return the football pants meaning SS could not play in that week's game. A little over an hour after the frantic phone call from SS about said pants, BM sends DH a text, "nevermind, we found them." You'd think they would have looked a little harder before accusing DH of purposefully keeping the pants from SS, but no, if BM can infuse a little drama into any situation, she will. 

My psycho exh demanded (in the divorce) that he get custody of a quilt his mother had given me for my birthday before we married. He also demanded any wedding gifts that had been given to us from HIS friends. My second greatest desire (first being to divorce psycho) was to rid myself of every single thing that part of my nightmare with him, so I made sure he got my birthday quilt.

Funny thing: one of the wedding gifts from HIS friends was a toaster! I never used it - I was not allowed to touch HIS toaster - and it was dirty and sticky (he never cleaned it). Even if I'd been desperate for a piece of toast, no way in hell would I have used that toaster after I saw a mouse scramble out of it. Not telling him was probably the meanest thing I ever did to him. Then again, I didn't want to be blamed and "get in trouble". 

lol. Yeah. My ex VI wanted some photos off a laptop that he gave me. And sent a disk. I keep forgettting.

Toxic Troll wanted to get a statue that DH had been given by his brother. He said no of course. but he did promist her a large circular mirror during their "divorce discussions", and about 3 years later mentioned it out of the blue. I was so mad, I sent it right over with instructions that hed better not install it for her...he didnt lucky for him, although she did ask. Because shes TT, she actually asked.

I think its sitting around somewhere in her knarly apartment. DH replaced it with a new nice mirror that sits above our fireplace.

AND to make life ever more fun, she contined for about 3 years to ask for things "its so hot, can you send the snow cone maker over?" or better "Tweedle Dum and I are thinking of going camping, can you send the tent over?"

It doesnt happen now.