Little thieves of 3B

Okay everybody, today I am going to talk about all the little thieves of my class, III B.

As with kindergarten and standards I and II, the stealing spree continues in my class. Teachers beat the thieves, but they still continue to steal. May be those kids would grow into professional thieves in future, but some might become good people.

Anyway, I want to discuss the pattern and variety of things being stolen, here. There are a few kids who are specialized in items, others steal just anything.

Items

1. Rubber (also called 'eraser' by some people, as my appa says) is the item in most demand by the thieves. Rubbers with printed patterns and the ones with nice smell are the ones targeted mainly. Such a rubber would disappear from your pencil box in two days. One main capability of the thieves is to smell out those kind of rubbers even from the other end of the class. There is a way though, to escape from thieves, and that is to create pencil holes in your rubber - they dont seem to be interested in damaged rubbers. So, friends, if you have rubber thieves in your class, don't forget to dig your sharp pencil into it the moment you get a new rubber.
   
   
2. Pencil, although not an object of high demand, the thieves are interested in those which have flowers painted on them. If you have a rubber at the other end, don't worry, the pencil would have left your box in three to four days. A good way to be safe from pencil thieves is either to break your pencil into two halves or use a blade and scratch of a lot of paint from the pencil, so that it looks bad.
   
   
3. Cutter (also called pencil sharpener) is something that might get stolen based on the other features it has, and the length of unbroken pencil-shaving it can generate. If your cutter is simple, don't worry - it will stay in your pencil box. But if it has things like a rotating lever or something to collect the shavings, better keep it at home, and bring more pencils. Else, consider it gone in a day.
   
   
4. Pencil box thieves are rare to find. In the entire divisions of 3rd standard, there is only one known thief who targets pencil boxes. Teachers always know that if a pencil box is missing, it would be in his bag, so you will anyway get the box back. Even though he spends most of his time kneeling on pebbles in the sun, or beaten with cane, I think he is stupid - he still tries to steal pencil boxes the next time he finds a good one. Once, he tried to steal the box of a 5th standard boy, and his friends beat him up around the school. He still doesn't learn. I heard Rosamma miss say that his parents also don't know what to do with him.
   
   
5. Water bottle is another item similar to pencil box. Our pencil box thief has a friend, who is the only person known to steal water bottles. He is very much addicted to water bottles which has extra pouches to store biscuits and sweets. He will either steal your biscuits and sweets, or will steal your water bottle if you don't keep it near you. Teachers know that if your water bottle is missing, it would be with him. But he learns from the beatings he get, so he mostly steals only biscuits and sweets now.

So, friends, take care of your belongings. I am sure there will be similar thieves in all schools. May be they are also like this. My tips might work in your schools too.

Have a nice day. Tata bye bye :-)