Aw really. I still have the bulk of my collection. I remember having shoe boxes full of cards, but I sorted a lot of them out and sold the duplicates. I don't think I could ever part with them.
Yeah...stealing others' cards was a big thing in my school as well. Not so much Pokemon, but Yugioh cards. Man I wanted to hit those kids who stole my cards over the head. I got them back eventually. I had to steal them back haha.