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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Rage against the machineVending machines are evil. Many tempting treats are hidden away inside them, and all at horribly expensive prices, that is if you can even get them to work.
Imagine the joy when we found one somehow stuck - buying one out of a selection of beverages resulted in you getting your drink, and the machine still believing there to be a fresh £1 coin in the machine ready for use in the purchase of some of its delights, ready for you to then reselect your drink and get another.
Being students the machine was emptied of all the relevant drinks within about five minutes, everyone wandering off with a few more bottles than would be expected.
Theft? well, yeah. Morally though? It doesn't come near to compensating for all the times vending machines have swallowed my money and given me nothing in return...
(, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 21:51, 1 reply)
Free tea.Chocolate actually.
At my secondary school in the 70s the drinks machine began to give out free drinks. The queue stretched all the way down the corridor in the end until it was bled dry. The teachers, alerted by the patient well-behaved but unfeasibly long queue, enquired what was up.
And then a couple of them joined the queue (pushed in, though.)
(, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 18:40, closed)
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