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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I lifted a shoplifter! And then displayed shocking naivety.It was strange, I walked around the corner in a local mini-market to see a guy looking around suspiciously, while completely failing to see me. He then quickly grabbed five or six boxes of chocolates and stuffed them in his bag.
Then he looks up at me. His face drops, I shake my head, and he starts putting chocolates back. Neatly.
I don't know what then happened. I think I was touched by his non-aggressive approach. He actually tried to explain what he was doing. He was skint, his brother was in trouble with drug dealers for a petty debt, and he needed to raise a tenner to get his brother out of the shit.
That's when I did something of such astonishing naivety I still kick myself. I said "here mate, don't worry - here's a tenner and you can pay me back when you're ready. Just give me your number and address and I'll get in touch."
Of course, the number was never ever answered and when I went to the address in a rough estate (I could see through the windows - fakkin hell don't chavs have big tellies!?) the guy who answered said he'd never heard of the bloke.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 8:23, 4 replies)
Unfortunately,the moral is, don't give to hard luck stories.
There's a guy who walks up and down Oxford road all day, asking people for 30p, to make an important call to his brother, (why is there always a brother involved)?
He does this all day, and it must be paying all right. Otherwise, why would he do it?
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 8:33, closed)
welcometo the real world
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 8:54, closed)
Ah, you sound like a nice personI felt the need to at least praise you a little bit after the first two replies.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 13:44, closed)
I hadSomeone do that to me... "diabetic" apparently - he had medical cards and all the arse. I like to think that maybe he choked on his Mars bar. @_@
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 16:40, closed)
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