{"id":149710,"date":"2025-03-04T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/someone-left-a-strange-wheelbarrow-in-my-kitchen-now-what-do-i-do-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:38:22","slug":"someone-left-a-strange-wheelbarrow-in-my-kitchen-now-what-do-i-do-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/someone-left-a-strange-wheelbarrow-in-my-kitchen-now-what-do-i-do-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone left a strange wheelbarrow in my kitchen. Now what do I do? | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt\u2019s not mine and I don\u2019t know where it came from. I\u2019m just hoping that someone will take it away againI\u2019m going to do one of those tricks like a magician with a ball and cups, because it is imperative for legal reasons that I don\u2019t say which of the household\u2019s three teenagers was involved in this thing \u2026 but on Sunday morning I woke up and there was a wheelbarrow in the kitchen. Cross-examination revealed that some other party had removed it from its original home, but it had ended up in our house because they didn\u2019t want to take it on the tube. Nobody knew whence it had come, so it couldn\u2019t be returned. I immediately suggested we put soil in it and plant vegetables, because that\u2019s what passes for moral guidance in my world. You can strip the fun out of any misdeed if you make the end result boring enough. The counter-suggestion, from the person who definitely didn\u2019t take it, was that we fill it with ice and beer and have one continuous party. There was no plausible compromise between these two ideas, so it currently sits in our front garden, waiting for someone to grab it back off us.I don\u2019t know when it leaves you, the urge to pilfer things. I would never have stolen a thing with an (individual) owner (a dog, a bike), and I\u2019d never have taken a traffic cone, because it was just too much of a drunken cliche. But when I was young I stole a fire bucket, which was incredibly heavy, being full of sand. I stole a gigantic, very recently cut down log because I thought it would make a good table, but in fact it was kind of still alive and it rotted the carpet, then the floorboard underneath, and, if I hadn\u2019t moved house, would have ultimately, I think, crashed into the room below. I stole a flashing orange light from a building site, and a spoon from British Rail (that\u2019s going back a bit), and a long piece of felt \u2013 all of this completely directionless, none of it even as useful as a wheelbarrow. Then, one day, I just stopped. Now I\u2019d be much more likely to leave things in places.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading…
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