Each of you can remember how she took home from the office or restaurant a small trinket: a beautiful ashtray, a bright handle, a small vase that would look perfect on the kitchen table.
As a rule, after the "childish" act, the "thief" is overtaken by a feeling of exultation, a rush of adrenaline, which pleasantly tickles the nerves. Then anger comes to his behavior, shame and swearing to himself that this will not happen again. But a little time passes, promises are forgotten, and the desire to take away the vending bauble overrides.
As psychologists say, such "addictions" are not dangerous, and it is not worth scourging oneself. More than half of the world's population suffers the same. Joyful emotions from the opportunity to get beautiful little things for free have a positive effect on the psychological state of a woman. It is worth worrying if a small addiction begins to grow into a large, called kleptomania.
Most of the "carried away" things are useless: office paper, soap and shampoo from the hotel, envelopes, a small spoon, pencils and pens. But the stolen (meaning, if you tear off a leaf, a branch) plants, according to the Russian saying, perfectly take root and grow.
The first experience of such prank, as a rule, a woman receives in childhood. It can be a free advertising distribution of new products, for example sweet candy. After receiving a valuable and desired prize, the girls line up and pass it several times until the distributors calculate them. The first experience may be different. So, in my childhood, there was a following case. We were visiting friends of parents, where there was a girl of my age. We played, showed what clothes there are for Barbie dolls. And, I remember how I liked one bright pink suit that she had! The girl left the room, and I quickly put the doll's clothes in my pocket. At home, I dressed my Barbie in a new suit, which turned out to be not so beautiful, also old. But, at the moment when I was hiding it, he seemed to me the most beautiful in the world.
Passion for free "cute little things" is not alien to celebrities. So, one American actress in an interview confessed that she had taken an impossible pink robe from the hotel in Paris, without which life seemed meaningless. Politicians take spoons, knives, napkins, and sometimes glasses from the restaurant halls.
There is a special kind of "women's prank" when collecting free catalogs and advertising brochures from exhibitions and seminars. Not only bright booklets, branded notebooks and brochures are taken in, but also price lists! Sometimes serious companies give free souvenirs, stickers, stuffed toys, mouse pads and T-shirts for free at exhibitions. And it's absolutely not embarrassing that a T-shirt is five sizes bigger than needed, that pens, notepads and souvenirs of the house are collected quite a lot. But, there are no such! After all the shelves on the cabinet are clogged with unnecessary trash, cleaning takes place and everything is thrown out. The place for new trophies is being vacated.
Such behavior, it would seem, is typical only for women of the former Soviet Union, when it was difficult to get something beautiful, simple things were lined up for simple things. But, according to sociological surveys conducted in the US, Japan, Europe, every third inhabitant something "yes" tyrit "home, feels a passion for free getting a small beautiful trinkets. Childish mischief is absolutely harmless, if it does not develop into large theft.