ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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Guilty by ingestion......coming home from church one Sunday with my two younger sisters and my dad, we stopped in the newsagent to get a newspaper. My dad picks up a bag of toffees and slips them in his pocket without paying. I was only 10 and was absolutely horrified. I said nowt but he offered toffees to us all on the way home and I refused to take one without saying why. He realised I'd seen him and made me eat one.
I felt sick all day and toffees still remind me of that event. (Good grief...)
5 years later I got a job stacking shelves in 'Key-Mart' (UK supermarket). Found out that he'd been arrested there for shoplifting.
Me? I can't even leave a store if I've been undercharged a bit.
I sometimes wonder what it would feel like to shoplift something, but then I remember how sick my dad made me feel.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 15:28, Reply)
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