260 transgressions each year

numberplease Ho hum! The ups-and-downs of being a parent.

Flower , MOI?? As if! Actually, I wouldn`t have dared, even if I`d wanted to, which I didn`t! No, it was as I said, hubby`s teenage niece and her boyfriend, who became, and still is, her husband. I`ll bet that her mother didn`t keep that edition of the Daily Star as a souvenir, it was a very clear photo!

I wasn't be accusatory, just trying to be funny. The posts are just catching up with me. At last!

Maybe it takes longer because I'm in France! Also a joke.

Right I'm going to have a G&T and shut up now. Really.

numberplease Was that you?

Ana and so she did...I was

No, that Rachel definitely threw her container on the ground - the other one emptied the dregs out of hers and the shot ended, so we'll never know what she did with hers...

Merlotgran they didn' t chuck the cups - just emptied the remaining coffee out.

That's what I saw anyway.

Soop, they didn`t get away with it, though, up in court, severely admonished, and fined. It was back in 1980 or 81, and it was hubby`s teenage niece and her boyfriend, now her husband, a policeman caught them "at it" at the side of the road. Got their photos in the Daily Star. My FIL was disgusted, didn`t speak to them or her mum, his daughter, for months afterwards.

I wasn't told about it until years later - my mother did not discuss such things! I was just told they had been 'messing about' and disturbing people. I wouldn't have liked to be sitting next to them. Perhaps it was a boring film.

Greatnan I'm all agog... [horror]

Now the back row would have been different.

A pair of our neighbours in Salford in 1949 were thrown out of cinema for having sex on the front row.

number How on earth did they hope to get away with such shenanigans?

Not a good idea to fare dodge on the metro system in north east, they name and shame you on billboards.

I know a couple who were had up in court for having sex in the street!

I don't drop litter but I have....
Taken toiletries from hotel rooms (I've paid for them after all)
Taken sugar sachets (always - ditto)
Parked on double yellows when some pratt (clearly not disabled) used one of the very few disabled parking bays
Broken the speed limit on motorways
Fare dodged on the tram in Bordeaux (not deliberately)

Never lost any sleep.

Sometimes it's good, useful and necessary to step out of the 'box' of rules

Perfectly fine to take any unused shower gel or shampoo, they are just swept into bin bags. Fine to take slippers too because they are binned, nobody else would wear them and they are single use standard.
Never done any of the other things, well maybe one

I had an argument with my daughter about taking unused toiletries from a hotel bathroom. She said I shouldn't so I asked the manager, who laughed and said they were promotional and they expected people to take them (not the slippers, dressing gowns or towels though). Same with books of matches and sachets of sugar - they are provided for customers and whether you use them on the premises or somewhere else is immaterial to the business. They often carry adverts.

I heard about an elderly woman in Cheltenham who was very 'Ladies College' with the cut-glass accent. She saw a youth throw a can on the floor and picked it up and handed it to him. 'I don't want it' he said'.
'Neither does Cheltenham' she said in her poshest voice. He put it in the bin.
I used to use my best teacher's voice quite often, such as the time some lads were using bad language in the cinema queue, in front of my two little girls. I just said that it would be nice if they didn't swear because my girls were not used to it and they actually apologised. I am not sure I would intervene now - too many young people high on drugs or alcohol and ready to pull a knife.

merlot, I did that at Lochcarron once when I saw a child of about ten years old drop a can he'd been drinking from onto the beach. In my best teacher voice, I said: "Pick that up! Put it in a bin!" He did.

I surprised myslef actually. Then I looked round for outraged parents but there were none, which was perhaps why he did it, the blighter!

What you trying to tell us grace

I note that nobody is "owning up" to the public place thing.......?

Merlot, that had me hopping mad as well!
When my girls were about 6 the younger one said very seriously that nobody could rob the bank in Mold, because they wouldn't be able to park the getaway car on the double yellow lines. Perhaps I had stressed good behaviour a bit too much. However, she seemed to get over it by the time she was 16. Luckily, she got married at 17 (and she wasn't even pregnant - there's posh!)

I parked on double yellow lines outside the chemist yesterday first time ever everyone in the village just ignore them, so I thought if you cant beat them join them.

OHHH and when I was about 7yrs I shook a syscamore tree for the helicopters on the RAF camp where we lived and got the wrath of the Sgt.
I couldnt sleep for weeks as he threatened to drag my Dad into the guardroom and charge him, I lived on the edge of my nerves everytime Dad came back from camp incase the Sgt had told him.