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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1pAnd another...
When I was a 9-10yr old kid I lived in the Isle of Man for a short period. Nothing exceptional there, but as my dad controlled where I lived, and he was pretty unstable, things could happen quickly.
One day I'd bought a pencil from the local shop but been a penny short. No problem, said the nice chap, pay me next you come in. Problem is, three days later I was told to pack my bags, I was going to live in Bolton with my dad and the woman he'd just married.
I never had the chance to return that penny. I even argued about it with my dad on the ferry for about three hours solid. He must have thought I was losing it.
And it bugged me for years. And years.
But did I learn? Oh no. Just before being forced to leave one of my first summer jobs, I'd been 7p short for a sandwich from the shop below. It still haunts me, twenty years later, that this old guy who ran it probably went to his grave with his trust in people mortally shattered.
Length? It's all about my having no sense of perspective.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 8:36, Reply)
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