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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Technically theft.Taking things from skips is, apparently, frowned upon. Even though whatever is in the skip is going to be thrown away.
I assume this, anyway, from the fact a nice man in blue politely dissuaded us from taking the ten foot long plywood sign that had once graced the front of a bar that was being refurbished. From a skip.
The fact it wouldn't fit in the flat wasn't the point.
We made up for it by finding a lovely table further down the road and using it to set up our wooden train set on.
No, I can't remember why we'd bought a wooden train set. I think we might have been drunk.
Later that week, a friend of mine decided we needed a chair to go with our table. Having been told he couldn't get a free sub in the local Subway, he helped himself to a drink instead. Being told he wasn't technically allowed to do that, either, he shrugged.
"I'll have a chair instead, then," said he, picking up one of the hefty metal chairs and wandering out of the door.
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gone, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 16:06,
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