Have you ever stolen anything???(Light hearted)

When my younger son was around 18 months old my mum and stepfather had a Post Office and shop. It was a beautiful listed building in a beautiful village. We went over for Sunday lunch and after a while realised we hadn’t seen son for a while. Mum had forgotten to lock the door to the shop and son had toddled in there and was merrily eating quite a lot of sweets which filled a couple of shelves.

GagaJo

When I was 5, I remember sneaking and eating a mars bar in the supermarket, one bite at a time. Putting it back on the shelf inbetween bites. Mum didn't notice and I guess it was before in-store security.

When I was 15, I went try-on shopping with a friend. She tried a top on and put her own top over the top and walked out. I would have loved to be brave enough to do it, but was too scared.

At around the same age, I was shopping alone when a school friend half ran past me, looking scared stiff.. ‘I’ve just nicked a jumper from M&S!’ she gasped in passing - M&S was very close by.
If I’d ever been tempted, seeing how scared she was would have put me off for life.

I’m afraid the odd pen, pencil, rubber and ruler ended up at home, not at work, I had to measure plans on site, hence the ruler.

on the way to sunday school we went via the allotments to 'get' some rhubarb as it was harvest festival and we were very poor.

Some years ago, when loading shopping bags from the supermarket trolley into the car boot I saw an item I’d missed and hadn’t put on the checkout belt. I rushed back into the store and confessed to two very tall managers. Looking at my stricken face, they both started to laugh, told me not to worry and no need to pay for it.

That’s not stealing Jax - merely relocating items of stationery. Well, in my eyes anyway. My favourite teaspoon is marked DCC - Durham County Council - I left in ‘79.

I ran in to a Tesco recently for just a few things, I hate the store, don’t know where anything is and find it overwhelming.
I went to self scan to pay and I tried everything to find the olives I had from the deli counter, in the end I gave up and didn’t pay.

I was once accused of stealing a pencil from the teacher’s desk. I was about 6 years old. It was very traumatic for me - it was a convent school and Sister X sent 2 senior girls to my house to tell my mum, which meant everyone came to know . No phones those days ; well at least my mum didn’t have one. I have chosen to forget that incident. Hence, I can’t remember how it ended. Did my Mum pay for the pencil. TBH this is the first time I’m talking about it. It’s too painful for me even 65 or so years later

crazyH

I was once accused of stealing a pencil from the teacher’s desk. I was about 6 years old. It was very traumatic for me - it was a convent school and Sister X sent 2 senior girls to my house to tell my mum, which meant everyone came to know . No phones those days ; well at least my mum didn’t have one. I have chosen to forget that incident. Hence, I can’t remember how it ended. Did my Mum pay for the pencil. TBH this is the first time I’m talking about it. It’s too painful for me even 65 or so years later

Blimey!

Sorry - I know it’s supposed to be a lighthearted thread - my apologies - it’s time I laughed about it , I guess

Ah maddyone
I did exactly the same, strapped Toddler into car seat, loading shopping into boot noticed very large pack of A——-x hanging on trolley.
Couldn’t remember paying searched and found receipt not on there?
Got grumpy tired Toddler back in to trolley and took rolls back apologising profusely really stressed about it. Tesco very nice about it and thanked me for taking them back.
I was absolutely mortified ?

When I was about 8 years old my friends dared me to steal a Chelsea whopper sweet from our local shop, which I did. Forty eight years on and I still feel guilty for doing it.
I was in retail for years and the things people get up to in shops would amaze you. I could write a book about the things that people do and for some it's not because they need to, it's because they just want to do it. A guy took orders in his local pub for things people were 'buying' for Xmas presents and then he came in the shop I worked in and tried to steal all round him. People like that made me so angry as I stood for hours at a till for £8 an hour, if I was lucky and he probably made more money from shoplifting.

HeavenLeigh

No never, but my DD when around 4 decided to help herself to the pick n mix in woolies which was easily within her reach, as I turned round there she was with a milk bottle in her mouth and two shrimps in her hand

My youngest son did similar, about 200 yards from Woollies I checked his pushchair to make sure he was warm enough and noticed he had a Santa Claus tree decoration in his hand, I was too embarrassed to take it back and 33 years on we still put it on the tree

Cadburys Creme eggs from the corner shop when I was about 12. When I went there to get shopping for my mum, I grabbed one out of the display box near the counter when the lady shopkeeper's back was turned and pocket it. Did it about three times. I feel a bit bad about it now!

Other than a few penny sweets as a child, I once exaggerated the items in a missing bag at Heathrow. It took me ages to get everything sorted and, I have to admit, I didn't feel the least bit guilty. That doesn't mean I'd do it again as I had several sleepless nights imagining a SWOT team bursting into my bedroom

Anothee toddler strikes again story.

Unloaded Tesco weekly shop onto conveyor belt, paid, reloaded back into trolley, trudged to car, unloaded shopping into car boot and then went to lift daughter out of the seat of trolley, into the car, only to notice that she was holding a bag of potatoes that was taller than her - my fault, I'd given them to her to hold all round the shop and then just forgot about them.
I didn't go back in and pay for them.

I once went out of Sainsbury's with a small block of cheese in the pram in the tray underneath. Rushed back in a panic to explain and pay. Shop assistant said most people wouldn't have been so honest.

As a kid I stole some sweets. Never owned up to mother when caught. But have lived with a guilty conscience to this very day. I'm 65. Was brought up honest in a big family. At last I can confess.

Did the same thing in a department store was looking at bags and jewellery went into another store and one of the bags had hooked onto my own bag there I was walking about with two handbags and nobody said anything! I took it back explained to the assistant and she just shrugged and said ‘ your honest’

I was working as a courier out of Slough and filled the bike up at a petrol station on the Bath Road. I picked up a Kit-Kat and in the flurry of queuing up, paying and putting all my crap away, forgot to pay for it. I went back the next day to settle up and the cashier was so astonished that someone in Slough would even bother that she refused to let me pay and gave me another one for free.
I have to say, this is no reflection on Slough which I actually thought was not a bad place to live. if only temporarily.

I have, but I'm too embarrassed to discuss it here!

This exact thing happened to me in Rome, but when I discovered the bag I was miles away from the shop so I kept it, but gave it away to a friend. I was absolutely mortified.

Anniebach

Apples, rhubarb, cocoa powder and sugar , from gardens, orchards and parents, apple and rhubarb scrumping, dipping
the stolen fruit into cocoa powder and sugar , delicious but naughty,

And a cat, my elder daughter saw a man kicking his cat around his garden, she took the cat and I took the cat to a rescue centre, my daughter was 7 at that time.

Dipping into cocoa powder & sugar sounds like something I ought to try. Like cinnamon & sugar on toast.
Did you mix them together, or dip in one then the other, please?
Good for you & your daughter for the cat. A friend and I did the same with a pregnant cat years ago.

Yes. A dog from the neighbour of a former colleague. It was a young hog that had never been allowed inside, was living a miserable life existence in the garden and constantly being goaded by the children. Authorities were contacted, but they said there was no evidence of ill-treatment.
We left the back-gate open so that they thought she had escaped.

A young dog, even…