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?!

I had a 20minute phone call with my teacher pretending to be my mum, about how I didn't have to do a presentation if I didn't want to. 3 weeks later at a parents evening said teacher was there, he went to bring it up, I cut straight across him and said to my mum 'oh yeah remember that presentation that we talked about?' My lovely dm (none the wiser) agreed with me and then changed the subject. My friends still talk about it, it happened nearly 15 years ago

Dragon I have been the teacher at the other end of that kind of conversation. I KNEW that it wasn't the parent but didn't have the confidence to call the kid out on it. I had to wait until the child was in school and then call the parent back and then refer to the conversation "we" had had the previous day and comment that she sounded different today.

Detention and grounding - but nice try.

I phoned my then BF who was working abroad and didn't hang up properly. Was tipsy. Didn't realise what I'd done until well into the next day.

My friend works at the phone company deleted that £700 call from my bill.

Pawprintz!!! I laughed but really shouldn't have

I did a learning beyond registration module with my local school of nursing last year and was given a student card. Without an expiry date.....

I got to the end of my last uni exam, before noticing that I had put my bright red A4 sized revision book, full of all the answers to the exam, on the exam desk right in front of me! I'd meant to put it under my chair in my bag, or at the back of the hall, but somehow I'd just plonked it down then not noticed it. If an invigilator had seen it, I would have automatically have been failed and expelled for cheating - after 3 long years of hard work at the very last moment (despite the fact I hadn't opened the book at all so hadn't actually cheated).

Incredibly, the fact that I didn't notice it must have somehow served to not draw attention to it IYSWIM, and no one spotted it. I then had to very, very subtly pick the book up and carry it out with me as I left!

I also accidentally shoplifted a cooler bag from a shop once - put it over my shoulder while DP and I looked at other stuff and didn't realise it was still there until we got to the car later that afternoon! I was too embarrassed to return it, besides the shop had shut by then and we were 250 miles from home.

A part of me is still amazed that they let me carry two babies out of the hospital and take them home with me...

Thing is the school had my mobile number as my mums contact number, so if he'd have tried calling back he'd have got me again anyway. I had some balls as a kid hahaha

Paid for a meal using contactless payment, it declined first time so tried again and was told it was fine. When I checked my statement no payment had gone out of the bank.

Also my criminal record should be as long as your arm, it isnt...

I told quite a big lie in a job interview 20 years ago that got me on the ladder for my current career. I work in a profession where honesty and integrity are regarded as essential attributes

The child I spoke to (pretending to be her Mum) put on a falsetto posh voice I really did know it was her but couldn't help imagining the trouble there would be if I called her out on it and it was the Mum - or if the Mum decided to lie and support her. I am such a wuss.

I am better with forged notes though - excusing homework and requesting permission for unlimited toilet access.

I've got away with absolute murder with teenage parties, even got away with a kitchen unit being broken and 4 drunk boys doing a repair job at 3am....to be fair when I looked at it sober the next day they had done an excellent job! Mum never found out about 2 YEARS of parties nearly every weekend until I jokingly mentioned it when I was 28 and she was absolutely horrified!

I got ran over by a speeding car outside a nightclub, in a hit and run. I was off my tits (it was the 90s). I was underage. I got up off the floor and there was not a scratch on me. Bit of a sprained wrist, which I told my mum I got tripping up some steps.

I told my mum that my sixth form college didn't issue reports as we were considered old enough not to need them.

In my old flat I got free wifi for 18 months by using next door's unsecured connection. No password or anything, could just jump straight on.

In second year uni end of year exams, all turned up to exam and there were no invigilators. They'd fucked up organising staff for the right date. So everyone got an automatic pass without having to take the exam.

Accidentally drove off after filing my car up to the brim. Was too far away from the petrol station when i realised to turn round and do anything about it. Somehow got away with it.

Shagging my ex's band mate regularly behind his back when I was 18/19.

My BF was a porn obsessive who was never impressed with the real thing, but his band mate was a 6'4 dreadlocked, tattooed lump of gorgeousness with no morals so...

We didn't pay a gas bill for 5 years at our last house. I wrote to to the company once but they didn't follow up on it. When we moved I kept waiting for a huge bill to land on our doorstep, but nothing ever came.

When I was young and very stupid I was talked into letting some unknown person pay a large cheque into my bank account which would clear and I would get half of it. The cheque cleared and money was lifted but then it must have been cancelled. My bank account was thousands overdrawn!!
I had to call the bank and ask what was going on, feigning ignorance about any cheque.
They contacted the police who took me in for an interview and recorded it! I held my nerve and never wavered in my innocence and that my bank card must have been stolen and I stupidly kept my pin no written in my purse.
My own money was refunded and I got away with it.
I can lie for Britain if I had to, I should get a job doing it !!!!

Between ages of 16-18, had a very strict weekend curfew which I honoured. In theory. I actually went home, stuffed a pillow under my duvet, then went out the back door, climbed over the gate, spent all night doing drugs with my friends, then rocked home about 5am, lurked in bed until mum left and then I somehow managed to do a full day's work.

I would be HORRIFIED if my dc did that. In fact, I'm sort of horrified at myself.

Lots of stuff travelling. Only noticed I had an expired passport when standing in line for the passport check, I got out of the country and back in again a week later. I also travelled into the UK on an expired passport, 10 years later, lol. I also forgot my student visa going back into the states, passport control asked me some questions about the uni and let me in with a smile. I just wouldn't get away with it now.

Shaved my copious pubic hair off in an en suite wet room to a backpackers dormitory, then realised that the drain was blocked when i turned the shower on, so the floor was covered in pubes floating in a thin layer of water

Crept out (everyone else was sleeping) and came back later to find my cute dorm mate slagging off the beirded guy in the next bed for shaving his beard all over the floor

My shave was not in vain as pulled the cute guy a few nights later

I think WhatWouldCoachBombayDo must be Nigerian royalty...

In the early 90s I was supposed to be doing a year abroad as part of my degree however I was so in love that I only went for a week and realised no-one would realise if I went home.

Unfortunately I bumped into my form tutor in blockbusters in England and a week later a letter arrived from the uni saying they suspected I was not abroad and asking me to call them. They mentioned throwing me out of uni and making me repay my grant.

I arranged to go on a £10 day trip to Calais a couple of days later and called them from outside a supermarket, gave them the number of the pay phone and asked them to call me back. They did so and immediately apologised for their error as they said it was clear I was actually abroad. Can't believe I got away with it.

I do regret it though, I was never fluent like the other students were and I split up with him a short time later