To ask - what have you unbelievably got away with?

[Mollymoo78]

Normally I get away with nothing, however there was one day not so long ago I had to get something from the server room at work and I accidentally knocked over some strange thing with lights on. It looked like Johnny Five's head and was rather warm. I put it all back and crept but when I got back to my desk they said everyone in the building had lost their connection to the system!! I kept nervously silent while the IT bloke spent the entire morning trying to sort it out, listening to my colleagues moaning about not being able to work. To this day they don't know it was me!

So has anyone else got something they secretly got away with and can't quite believe it?!

At university I submitted the same essay on two different modules. Got 73% and 54% respectively (as it only vaguely addressed the essay title I had chosen).

Had my hair cut and hi lighted at a swish salon, price £145. I paid by debit card and only after I'd left noticed they'd put the decimal point in the wrong place and only charged me £14.50...

Went out with three blokes, all at the same time, it was exhausting...

Hardcoreladytype - she hasn't gone as far as you think 👆

Had a voucher for £10 off a haircut. Went to pay and the hairdresser said "oh I forgot to take the £10 off the price." I said ok and pressed cancel on the card machine, ready to start again. But seeing the void recipt come out of the machine she thought it was too late and that the transaction had gone through so she gave me £10 out of the till!

I was basically given a tenner to have my hair cut.

Can I just say how much I love Rab for using the correct 'cue'?

My first Christmas with my then dp we were absolutely skinty poo. Did our Christmas shop at Iceland ( y'know frozen turkey. Pigs in blanket that sort of thing) next door was Tesco where we did our fresh shop. I noticed that their frozen turkeys were half what I'd paid. So bought another one and went back in to Iceland to cancell the other surplus one which was due to be delivered next day.
You can guess what happened. Got the refund and the other turkey. Bonus. Next year sorted. Thank God we had a chest freezer back then.

Cheers Iceland.

One Christmas our Tesco Xmas delivery sent us two of everything With three DCs and the in-laws visiting it was a very welcome bonus. I didn't realise until after they'd left. Phoned my friend to say 'should I let them know?' She said they make billions, just keep it. So I did

Bought a lovely nest of wicker hampers. Got them home, not a nest of wicker hampers at all, but several separate hampers. I maintain it was their fault for nesting them, the girl on the till made the same assumption as I did. Could have fessed up, but I didn't.

Wrote my undergraduate dissertation in a day. Passed by some utter miracle

Same as PP in that there was a qualification I needed in order to do my post graduate professional training. I don't have it. Not a sinner has noticed.

Ordered a very expensive TV from a well known retailer. 2 were delivered one day apart. I called to inform them and they said collection would be arranged. It never was so a few months later we sold the extra one and it contributed towards a holiday

GarlicMist - i aim to please

DH has on several occasions ordered expensive electrical goods (laptops, phones) and received two instead of one, with two dispatch notes and everything! He just seems to get lucky. Most recently he bought 12 bottles of prosecco as there was a deal on in sainsburys. The deal turned out to have expired though, but as they hadn't taken the signs down in time they agreed to honour the deal price if DH went to customer services so they could void full price off and resell at deal price. He didn't realise til he got home that they voided the full shop off rather than just prosecco then failed to put anything back on again! So we got full shop including 12 x prosecco free. We figured sainsburys would cope...

I stopped going to maths classes in my GCSE year as our teacher went on long term sick and I didn't like the new teacher or maths. Because I was a model pupil in every other subject, no one ever questioned it, and I even had a long conversation with the headteacher when I bumped into him during one maths class while I was wandering round the school. It was always presumed I had some other legitimate activity to be doing. I still managed to pass too!

Probably the thing that makes me feel most uncomfortable though was years ago when we booked two hostels for a holiday abroad. Paid for one online, and was convinced I'd also paid for the other online. When we checked out I argued long and hard that we had already paid when they tried to charge us so in the end they backed down. I returned home, checked my email confirmation and saw I hadn't paid after all Contacted them to apologise and ask how I could pay. They told me I would have to make an international back transfer that was going to cost me £25! I was outraged at this suggestion so just never replied. They sent a couple more emails then gave up. So I still owe that youth hostel 3 nights accommodation

Lived in barrierless zone 6 and got away with zone 1-2 travel cards for a year. Saved £1,200.

Moved out of London and got a travelcard loan (£3,500) from old employer. It was treated as a payment and money never taken out my paycheque. Kept quiet and left the firm!

Cheated in exams. Didnt declare some extra income once.

Am a bastard!!

Broken an expensive vase at work- blamed their dog, broke plates at work- blamed their cats, got ink on friends's designer bag- claimed it was her baby who I was holding whilst she popped to loo.

Nb. None of these poor creatures got in trouble so don't worry- I would have had I owned up!!

Given all the educational "dodges" on this thread I hope all the people who are so impressed by various qualifications etc can now see what a joke some of these can be.

Just remembered another minor one - supermarket had DVDs £12 each or £20 for 2. I was buying 2, and noticed the young chap on the till had only charged me for one at £12 - I pointed this out to him and he said "I wouldn't moan if I was you - it's a good offer" he was right.

BTW - I have (honestly) never done this myself, but have had several colleagues (work in IT - used to travel 100% of the time) who got our IT section to send them a new laptop, printer etc and gave the old one to friends or sold them.

It seems some people never learn, floggingmolly.

Should add that the qualification I don't have is a technicality. It's a maths GCSE, I got two modules at higher level, one at intermediate, so no full GCSE at either level. Had to pass maths and English GCSE equivalencies to get onto my degree and my post grad qualification :-)

Had a 8mth affair with now DP. It was nearly 4 yrs ago and to this day nobody knows.

confusion i am 99.9999% sure you are about to get eaten alive

Yeah... Probably.
I was about to write a long post about how I really regretted it but had to run to the door.

FWIW I REALLY regret it. I'm obviously hugely ashamed as haven't told anyone and the relationship hasn't been easy because of it. Not expecting any sympathy obviously as it was all our own choices.

Both our exes have moved on well though and deserved better than being cheated on

I can tell you one I didn't get away with....

Age 17, I'd jacked college because I hated it. Mum decided I was to work voluntarily whilst I job hunted and found me a position in an old community centre doing the typing for some OAP organisation. Now I hated it. I was 17 and spending a day in a cold, drafty attic room in this place surrounded by OAP's was actually my idea of hell, so one morning I decided 'fuck it, I'm not going'.

My parents left for work before I did, so I simply stayed in bed all day. This was the 80's so no internet and I didn't listen to local radio etc. About 4pm I got up, put on my 'work' clothes and positioned myself on the sofa after my long day at work.

Mum came through the door, the conversation went like this...

Mum-"Oh, you're there. Good day at work Sisters?"
Sisters- "Yeah, same old"
M- "Were you up in your attic room?"
S- "yep"
M- (holding up front page of local evening paper) "Thats good, it burnt down last night"

Sisters I love that story! I league every time you post it

Laugh**

For our first house we bought everything from IKEA in one job lot worst Saturday of my life
They were due to deliver on 10th of the month. They called on the 9th to say it was going to be another three weeks for some ridiculous reason so it would all be delivered on 28th.

Between that day and the 28th, we had random bits of a our furniture turning up on random days. I kept a note of all the days/dates ready to complain to them.
By the 28th we'd actually had everything delivered but on 28th we had a knock at the door and a delivery man had a van full of all our furniture. We ended up with double everything. It was a complete pain for a few weeks and we were worried someone would realise the mistake but they didn't so we sold the duplicates and made about £1,000

We have a Christmas party every year for family and friends, I order seafood/pudding/various things from Waitrose Entertaining. Went in and joined the bloody enourmous queue to collect my order, whole place in disarray, staff member rude to everyone and practically threw my order at me shouting 'show your reciept at the till'. I assumed that was so you could prove you had paid. I had paid online and didn't need anymore shopping so collected my food and went home.

Found out later that online payment system had failed and i should have paid at the till. In my defense they did not make that at all clear!