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?!

This morning I got £450 knocked off a drive by saying my husband wasn't happy with the price and if we did it at X price, he would let me book it now.

I'm single.

I ran across railway tracks from one platform to the other once when I was drunk, missed my station and got off at the next one which I wasn't familiar with, and couldn't find the exit from the side I was on. Then shared a cab with a total stranger drunk girl. Lucky I a) didn't get hit by train b) didn't get robbed by stranger.

Also got away with travelling through Kazakhstan without a visa on the trans Siberian railway , as nobody told us the train went through it when we bought the tickets in Moscow. Me and 3 friends hid in our sleeping compartment and luckily the passport people missed us.

I've told it a dozen times Derek really was one of those 'Oh Shit' moments and the pic on the front page of the paper with it burning just kind of cemented it.

To be fair I probably got away with enough to even it out. I was a vile teenager

I set up a fake university, didn't pay contractors on my construction projects, went bankrupt several times, married three times, called the population of a neighbouring nation "rapists", insulted the parents of a soldier killed in action and believe that an apricot-coloured combover makes me irresistible and I still am down to the final two in my local council ballot!

I reversed into a parked car once. I was rushing and completely misjudged the space. It felt quite bad. I panicked and quickly drove to another space. As I walked past the car I couldn't see any damage but there must have been.
I was anxiously waiting for a police summons for months!! I also clipped someone's wing mirror when I was driving down the schools road once. Eeek!
There's also been a few self scan incidents and I didn't return when I realised. As if!

Ha! Milton - The price of sexism? £450

"local council ballot" saddle I know you;re incredibly thick, but someone should've explained about the job you applied for.

Calling my ex his brothers name during sex... Luckily it's a name that can be styled out, which I did.
"Jus... Jus... Er, Jus go a bit harder...?!"

I was working in Rome and commuting weekly from London. I missed my Monday morning flight and the next flight was completely packed.

At the gate, the ground crew asked if I spoke Italian, I do speak an incy wincy bit but of course I said yes with the confidence of youth. They asked the captain if I could sit in the jump seat in the cockpit and mentioned I spoke Italian but miraculously didn't speak to me in Italian. He ummed and arghed. And said yes.

It was a brilliant experience and no one ever believes me because it was less than 12 months after 9/11 and the new cockpit security laws.

SpunBodge was the brother hot?? did you sleep with him afterwards?

Only revised for History A level the night before. Luckily the three questions that came up were the ones I'd revised for and I passed with a B.

Procrastinated and fucked about for a whole term when I should have been doing my dissertation. Faked illness, got a week's extension, wrote 10k words in a week and got a 2:1.

Gave birth to two children without having one single contraction.

Stuck a metal knife into a toaster to retrieve toast while it was on - thank you, pregnancy brain. Didn't die.

Fuck, just thought of another!

When I was 18, came home pissed from a club with then-boyfriend.

Proceeded to shag on the living room floor.

We woke up stark naked and surrounded by broken glass about 10 minutes before my dad was due to get up for work.

He would have shat an absolute brick. I still think about it and die a little inside and it was twenty years ago and I'm now divorced from the boyfriend

Also, a lorry in front of a car I was driving moved into the right hand filter lane, so I proceeded alongside of him - only for him to turn left. He'd moved into the filter lane for more turning room.

I don't know how we didn't die. I had to mount the pavement and drive along it to get out of his way, and had about 150 yards to do it and get back on the road before we hit a road sign.

All this at 50mph. It was fucking terrifying.

Oh and the best one that u forgot. When I was 16 I set fire to my bedroom. -smoking- tut tut! I was in another room upstairs and my dad shouted "are you burning something" I come to the top of the stairs to answer him (no! why would....) then saw in my room and the curtains were on fire! He smothered it with my duvet and we spent the next 2 hours cleaning/disposing and de-smellifying the house before my mum came home. He painted the room the next day and my mum still has no idea. My Dad literally took it to his grave. He used to wind me up in front of her though. Thank god he was there!

That I forgot*

Not actually reading most of the set texts for my degree. It was in English Literature. I got a 2:1.

My mil cane into the room to discover that dp, then 5, had taken the back off an electric plug, plugged it back in again, turned it on, and was just about to show his 4 year old brother which wires the electricity went down- with the screwdriver. It was nearly 50 years ago and she still shudders when she remembers it,
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Snap Bertrand ...didn't read any of my set texts from cover to cover. Still got a very good degree

Same for A Level English Lit. Just sorta dipped in and out of the set texts, but still got an A.

My lovely neighbour fixed my fence so I ordered him a case of wine from Tesco. They delivered a case to the neighbours each day for three days. Only charged me for one,

Had to order specially made school uniform for DD who dared to be 5"10 aged ten. Supplier made uniform using centimetres rather than inches so it had to be remade. Called in to supplier and said 'I'm here to pick up the pinafores'. They handed two over without asking for payment (£154).

Friend invited me to self defence taster session. I had a lovely time. First husband was standing at the fridge complaining about it being a waste of time. Used manoeuvre to disorientated husband as he stood. He slumped to the floor and thought he had passed out. I apologise wholeheartedly to the NHS for the battery of test he underwent which found no problem and proved him to be healthy.

Justalittlelemondrizzle Love your fire one!

Used my scanner, photo shop skills and printer to fake an under 16 bus pass up to about age 19 when they changed the design

Did some mild shop lifting when I was about 14. Sometimes used to steal something easy from Miss Selfridge in town and take it back to the Miss Selfridge in the shopping center and get gift vouchers. Miss Selfridge because the didn't security tag their stuff. Bad morals there really.

Had an accident doing an extreme sport - the kind of accident where I really could have died but miraculously escaped with only minor injuries.

This was a while ago and before we got married, but I used to use DH's bank account before I got my own, and I managed to get it overdrawn. They thought his account had been hacked so paid it back, only trouble was he'd gone down to London and I had the card when I saw this money had gone back in, so I spent it. (My justification was he was off seeing his girlfriend, the one he'd dumped me for but expected us to pretend everything else was normal. This was at the end of 2011 and five years later I'm still wondering why I took him back.)

Shoplifting as a teenager, I did get caught twice, the first time I got a caution that my parents still don't know about (if my mum reads this I'm in trouble!) Second time the police weren't involved. I was actually really good at it! If it was an Olympic sport I'd have a gold medal by now! I'm now a reformed criminal though.

I used to get away with stuff at school. I quit PE, I was allowed to skip lessons as long as I went to the SEN classroom (as I suppose that was less hassle than dealing with the kids who bullied me.) I used to get pulled out of lessons to talk to someone because I would let other kids read my poems and the contents concerned them, which I still find hilarious. (I wrote stuff that is pretty grim, still do, and I don't think people quite knew what to make of it. One poem had the teacher who ran the poetry club asking me if I was okay, as it was about suicide, and I replied cheerily that I was. I was depressed at that time, but I wasn't about to commit suicide, I just like writing about things like that.)

I got in all sorts of strange cars as a teenage girl. A friend and I would meet some lads in a club, they'd offer to drive us somewhere and we'd go. I have no idea how or why I'm still alive. Nothing bad ever happened.

When moving into an apartment years ago, the owners were a lovely old couple and told me about all the monthly bills, but said the TV was free, because the previous girl that lived there worked for the TV company (let's call them SKY) so she had gotten it all connected for free. They just said to leave it and say nothing.

Months later, I was expecting a friend over and left the front door open a bit, there was a tapping at the door and I shouted 'come in' from the couch, where I was watching TV. Two people walked in and said they we're from SKY* and we're invesigating someone in the buildings getting free TV, as they couldnt pinpoint to which apartment it was. I told them we didn't watch TV at all, only videos (there was a big shelf on display beside the television) and ushered them out, saying it was definitely next door that was to blame, totally dishonest looking woman etc.
They must haven believed me because it was never disconnected. When my friend finally arrived, I saw them knocking at the poor woman next door.

Another one, I woke up with a hole burnt in my duvet, I had fallen asleep with a cigarette. Frightened the life out of me that did.

When I was in what is now year 7 our form teacher who was also the science teacher was off ill for a few weeks.

We did one science lesson with another year 7 class and the other we did alone with a door open to the next classroom (it would not happen now).

In this class we were doing the topic 'electricity' and had some circuit boards to connect and a book to fill out about parallel circuits, where you put the light bulb and switch - basic stuff.

I'd had an electronics kit for Xmas 2 years earlier so I wizzed through the book (at home I had an intruder alarm for my room, had built a radio and an alarm that reacted to light to put n a drawer so 'which is a parallel circuit and which is serial?' were easy.

I then set up a version of the game 'buzz off' but with a light.

I had never been the cool kid until then, we spent three weeks playing buzz off in science.

I got into 6th form with 2 C or above GCSEs instead of 5. Although I didn't get the grades I still carried on with enrolment and started Alevels. I thought that for some reason they were being lenient, I never received anything saying I was refused. But near the end of the first year the deputy head of sixth form stopped me, looking really annoyed, and said I didn't have the right grades and must do retakes - I think they just didn't actually check we had the correct grades at entitlement, or assumed we wouldn't continue with enrolment if we didn't get the right GCSEs. Anyway- I got away with it!!! ( and she seemingly forgot about the re-takes)