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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The Corner ShopWhen I was about 10 a new corner shop opened on my estate with extra cheap prices to drive the lady who owned the shop next door out of business. Me and my friend decided to go on a bit of industrial sabotage and would go into the new shop, buy a 10p fudge, thus to make them think we were real customers, but paw everything making it look like we actually wanted some of his overpriced wares. Our item of choice were Jolly Ranchers(mmmmm). This went on until one day the shop keeper saw my friend, who claimed it was an oversight on his part, he had 'accidently put the sweets in his pocket', and this scared us so much we never stole again.
He won the price war and the old lady shut down. I feel a bit bad now though as every time I go in he is really friendly, he even remembers where I went to university, which is more than some of my friends!
(, Tue 15 Jan 2008, 13:44, Reply)
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