gravy ladle thief

Certain kitchen items of mine disappear on a regular basis. For instance, I've had a couple of potato mashers, but now I have none. I don't pay any attention to this fact until I am called upon to mash something and then I have to frantically call all of my friends and ask them to borrow one. My mother used to misplace kitchen items as well. We seemed to lose a variety of odd things when my parents divorced and we moved. One of the main AWOL items that always bugged my mom was the gravy ladle. Its disappearance became lore and forever more anything that went missing was blamed on the Gravy Ladle Thief.