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

crazyH

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

Another one “taught” by nuns here!

I was about 7 and waiting to catch a bus on my own. I started poking at the chocolate machine and a bar came out so I ate it.

I was consumed with guilt for ages and when the opportunity arose put sixpence through the shop letter box all in small change.

It was years later when I wondered what they thought when they found the coppers.

I completed my supermarket shop and then decided to look again at the homewares aisle. I chose a stick blender for my son and put it on top of my groceries, which is already paid for. I browsed a bit more before leaving the shop. It was only when I got back to the car that I realised I hadn't paid for the stick blender. I hurried back with it and took it to the customer service desk to explain. The girl there told me no-one else would've brought it back. She thought I was amazingly honest!

I'm another who got to the car and found the toilet rolls still hanging on the trolley. I went straight to customer services with profuse apologies and the money in my hand to pay. The assistant said 'You needn't have bothered, if the alarms don't go off we don't know it hasn't been paid for'.

I suppose not paying your bus fare is technically theft. I often did that when I was at secondary school. I just thought of it as getting away with something and saving a bit more money for the following day.

I've never deliberately stolen anything.

I found that I was walking round my local town with a hanger of several pairs of yellow broderie anglais pants dangling from my coat pocket. It would have made me late for work if I had taken them back right then, so had to stuff them in my bag and take them back next day. The assistant at the customer service till was a bit hoity toity over it.
I have also walked out of a shop with two handbags over my arm. Took them back too.
Another occasion has come to mind. I was paying for my clothes items at the counter, picked up my bags and left, to find later that I'd picked up another customer's bag with an angora jumper in it. She had paid for it, and when I took it back, she and the shop assistant had been looking for me.
They were not best pleased and laid on the guilt, but I really didn't mean to do it.

When my daughter, then age 4 walked out of a greengrocers store I saw she was acting oddly. Turns out she’d swiped a single brussel sprout and hidden it in her armpit.

I was going away for the weekend with my daughter and stopped to get petrol and some drinks and bits for the journey. DD was chatting and picking things out - magazines, etc. I paid for our purchases and we went on our way. About 20 minutes later I realised I hadn't paid for the petrol (in fairness the assistant hadn't asked if I had had any fuel. I drove back to the petrol filling station worried that they would have contacted the police and explained and apologised. They didn't seem to have noticed. This was about 20 years ago and I expect things have changed now but I still remember and was glad I remembered before I got on the motorway.

Loads of times ? can laugh now but mortified at the time. It always happens when I'm in a rush and got lots of other things on my mind that I'm trying to juggle. I always take it back explain and apologise profusely. I'm sure my mug shot must be in every cctv room in the country! Maybe I should start wearing a disguise. It's got to the point now where my grandchildren call me Gansta granny???

Many years ago, 43 to be exact, I was picked for jury duty. The trial was of a woman, in her late 60s accused of stealing a packet of tea bags. Her defence was that she had inadvertently put the tea bags into her own shopping bag instead of the shopping basket by mistake. She paid for all the other items. Needless to say we found her not guilty by a unanimous vote. What a waste of money!! Reading through these posts I'd say many of you are lucky not to be doing jail time .

Ha ha ...MANY years ago (but I never forgotten ha ha ) I had been looking at some spikey wire hair rollers ....I had on a new coat...one of those fashionable types in the 60;s....black and white tweed .....walked out of Woollies and suddenly realised my coat sleeve had picked up two spikey rollers .............was out of the shop and down the road by then ...too embarsased to go back !!!! not a lot, but never again!

Many years ago when my daughter was about 2 years old and in her buggy we were shopping in M&S food hall. Only when I got outside did I realise she was eating a small Milky Bar that she must have swiped from a display near the checkout, and was smiling devilishly at me like the cat that had got the cream. I went back in and paid for the half-eaten item, no questions asked and no explanations given. I’m sure they must see this kind of thing all the time.

I paid for my shopping, in our small local shop, and walked out. Then I realised I had a large packet of cornflakes, which were too big for the supermarket basket, tucked under my arm. I hastily dashed back, wondering how the girl on the till hadn't noticed them.

As a teenager one Saturday in town my best friend put a mascara into her jacket pocket. I was totally shocked. After that I never went out shopping with her again. But my husband ran outside our house to snatch a skate board off a young lad saying he had stolen/taken it from our son. I shouted after him - "stop as our one is here" - a case of the 2 being identical. The boys mother never has spoke to me again - I was so embarrassed. What was he thinking !! Not funny. But yes being protective.

I never paid for the school photos of my then 6 year old daughter , she brought them home from school in 1974 I was suppose to either send the money for them or return them I couldn’t afford to pay for them and I really wanted them as they were beautiful so I kept them , so yes I have stolen . This is the first time I have confessed.

A friend must have had a bit of a Robin Hood complex - robbing the rich to help the poor. She had a summer job in a factory, packing cakes into boxes. To make things more interesting she would see how many extra cakes she could squeeze in, mini rolls being her forte.

Mum & step father used to do the self scan at their supermarket. Well over £150 worth of shopping.
They loaded the car and went home. Mum looked for the receipt.
They hadn't paid!!
Poor mum, very anxious called tesco. They had to take back everything to the shop and have it scanned by a till operator! All the staff knew them, (Mum lived around there most of her adult life) and were very understanding but the security guard wanted them banned ?
He didn't get his way thankfully.....

If anyone owns up to taking my (sadly missed) mop and bucket.

I will track you down……..

Couldn't possibly comment on this subject....

PunkWomble

Many years ago when my daughter was about 2 years old and in her buggy we were shopping in M&S food hall. Only when I got outside did I realise she was eating a small Milky Bar that she must have swiped from a display near the checkout, and was smiling devilishly at me like the cat that had got the cream. I went back in and paid for the half-eaten item, no questions asked and no explanations given. I’m sure they must see this kind of thing all the time.

My eldest once managed to drape a blouse over his out turned little feet in his pushchair once in M&S!!! And my mum also (still a puzzle) managed to get a frock hooked onto the back of her cardi in marks!! It was hilarious! I was trying to unhook it and she kept saying "stop trying to tuck my labels in!" And trunking this way and that to avoid me! ?? We returned the offending item....

#Turning!!

I realised I had been undercharged for a bottle of cider at our caravan site shop due to a badly printed price label but went back the next morning to pay the difference.
I did see a dog in an indoor market in Bath delightedly munching his way through various treats on a pet food stall while his owners were obliviously nattering!

I remember shopping in the first self-service supermarkets in our town. My 5yr old son was with me and he kept pulling on my arm, and saying "Mum, Mum". I just kept telling him to wait a bit I am busy. Eventually he stepped firmly in front of me and said "But you are putting all those things in your own bag".
He is 61 now, and still keeping me on the straight and narrow!

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Ludicrously, obviously while drunk, a mate and I stole and tried to drive away a tug boat ! Didn’t get very far as we forget that there are TWO mooring ropes !!!