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.
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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Stupid things we did as students part [insert big number]One evening, drinking in a pub we'd never been to and were unlikely ever to visit again, we were busy half-inching bar towels (those promotional things they put on the bar to soak up the slops) when one of the group noticed that one of the beer pumps -- the one right on the end of the bar -- was loose. And as luck would have it this was one of those L-shaped bars, meaning that if the staff were all 'round the corner at the other end of the bar, they couldn't see what we were up to.
Two minutes later we were pegging it down the road, waving said pump -- trailing various bits of plastic piping -- over our heads and giggling like idiots.
As it happens, we did return to the pub, the following day, having been overtaken by an unexpected -- and decidedly unfamiliar -- sense of shame. Yep, we took it back. And we even apologised.
Not that we didn't get up to even stupider and more antisocial stuff after that, mind.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 16:15,
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