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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SecurityWhen I was a punk/proto-goth with orange hair living in Stockton-On-Tees and stood out from the crowd my friends and I were always followed by security in a couple of shops, mostly the big toyshop on the High Street and the Northern Electric shop where I had to go to pay my bill! In the former my friends and I ended up being on nodding terms with the lady 'undercover' detective (who always wore purple for some reason) although she still followed us. And what the hell did the N.E. people think we were going to nick, a bloody fridge?
And while they were watching us no doubt some non-descript individual was probably filling their pockets unobserved.
Now I work in a shop I know even more that it's not the distinctive types who nick, it's the subtle ones.
And old ladies with baskets.
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