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?!

Few more. Driving without insurance (I had just bought the car, private sale, couldn't insure it online back then and couldn't afford a tow truck AND a £100 insurance deposit, I realize it was stupid and risky no matter how careful I was driving something could've happened)
police man stood by the side of the road with his car flagged me down, I shat a brick. He just wanted directions, I gave them and he thanked me for stopping and I went on my way.
My mum ordered a bed for me on studio (credit catalogue) they delivered 2 but only charged for one. the first attempted delivery I wasn't in, the 2nd I was in and took it, then they tried to deliver again. I was meant to keep up the monthly repayments on the bed, which I did for 3 months. I sold the 2nd bed for £100 less than RRP (it was on clearance when mum ordered it) sold for £150 more than my mum had paid. I managed to clear the studio balance and have about £100 leftover. May not seem much to some but at the time I was up shit creek financially and to not have to be paying £30 a month anymore and to have a £100 windfall was like winning the lottery. I managed to buy £20 of cheap food, actually have more than £5 gas (used to just buy a fiver and use that for hot water, never had the heating on) and buy myself some much needed clothes from primark and bank some money for a direct debit. I felt so lucky at the time :)
One of DH's ones,
he'd been off work sick for 2wks, he'd crushed his foot with a fridge. They paid him hugely for that 2 weeks. His normal salary (£550 for the fortnight) plus sick pay £180, Plus holidays for each day (£30 a day, amounting to about £300) he informed payroll who said it would be deducted the following month, they deducted 5 hours from his pay (about £30-40) he thought they'd be deducting in installments so put the money in a separate bank so he didn't spend it, but they never deducted again. he left 5 years later and kept the money for another year or so before spending it. That was a nice surprise, mind you, as we were still in our 'beans on toast 3 meals a day'' broke stage when he remembered having it, All he'd spent from it was his sick pay but we still had close to a grand in there. That paid for our house move to a cheaper place and really helped us out financially (cost is 1.3k to move but it reduced our outgoings by about £300 as ct and rent was much lower) :)

We had just opened a new bank account and all our direct debits and standing orders were fucked, and I didn't realise until the day our credit card bill was due.

DH went into the bank to pay the credit card bill direct on the day, all good, no problems. Looked at the app on my phone a few days later and saw TWO payments for that amount had apparently been made on the same day (2 x £100). Except when I checked my online banking, our balance was the same and there was still no standing order for the credit card. So we got a free £100 off our credit card bill! Might not sound like much, but we really needed it!

*app for the credit card

Moved into a flat and tried to get connected to the internet but the previous tenants had obviously been cut off so we had to get bt to come out and connect us. 3 times they said an engineer was coming and we waited in for them not to turn up. After the 3rd time I called and went apeshit told them not to bother and we went with virgin instead. A few weeks later we got a cheque in the post from bt for a refund of the connection fee that we had never paid in the first place! I didn't feel guilty at all as they had messed us around so much I considered it compensation.

Not reading the book I was supposed to for my English A-level exam. Not only was I two hours late ( I thought the exam was in the morning) I ended up with one of the highest marks in the class. A lot of people ended up with E's and D's. I didn't dare tell anyone I never read the book!

Sorry meant to say I thought the exam was in the afternoon not the morning!

Not the crime of the century, but something I'm gleeful about.

I took the kids to London fot three days and decided to stay in a B&B in Chelsea so we were close enough to do lots of things on foot. The B&B had no parking facilities and meter feeding wasn't an option. The only solution was to park on top of King's Road Marks and Spencers and pay for the privilege.

BUT... Sundays are open barrier days and we just drove straight out! I'm sure it would have run to over £100.

I scored 100% on my English Lit A level coursework despite only having read half the book. It was v long and I got bored... I flicked through the last half and picked out random quotes to insert. It was my teacher's favourite book so she was delighted I'd chosen it for my coursework.

I bought a car from my BIL and was planning to tax it at the end of the month which was only a couple of days away. I hadn't used it but had to shoot over to my parents in the evening to collect something . Driving back in the dark I was convinced someone was following me so I took the back doubles and a route no one in their right mind would take. The car stayed with me. Completely freaked I was approaching a junction turning left onto a main road and then immediately right onto another minor road leading to my house. I decided to lose my stalker by indicating right but turning left ...as I turned I saw the writing on the bonnet of the car ......it was a police car. I continued on and he followed me and put on his blue light. I was out of the car like lightening and went up to him ( so he couldn't see my tax disc ) and proceeded to tell him how out of order he was following a lone woman for several miles at midnight . I had a proper rant ......he just about managed to get in I was doing 32 in a 30 mph area ......which got me ranting again about drunk drivers etc . In the end he gave up told me to watch my speed and drove off. Never came near the car so didn't see the expired tax disc.

My first job after Uni I worked in a lab as part of post-grad placement program. I had an occasional short term on/off relationship with my manager that our colleagues did not know about.

Team working very late together in office one evening to prepare for a client audit/visit ... I end up giving B a blow job when we're alone. Great at the time but looking back what the hell was I thinking?

All fine ... except next day there was some equipment/supplies reported missing, theft suspected, and security camera footage inspected. My manager was identified, but thanks to low quality early 90s recording and poor light I could not be identified. Boss left the company, he never mentioned by name.

I saw the recording several weeks (so much for security and privacy in those days) and could clearly tell it was me. Very luck escape that would have impacted my career.

When I was in about year 9, we all had to do a project on Hinduism for RS. I didn't do it, because I was lazy and never did homework (something I got away with surprisingly often) so before the lesson started I told the teacher I couldn't hand it in as my dad's printer wouldn't work the night before. This was about fifteen years ago, I suppose now it all gets uploaded to the school system. Anyway she said thanks for letting me know and I went and sat down, not for a second thinking she actually believed me.

It then turned out no one had done the project - not even the good kids! I don't know why. She subjected us all to a rant about how bad it was, then at the end said "I'm only sorry for Ezzie, who genuinely has done the project and couldn't hand it in." Everyone turned and glared at me because they knew full well I was lying
Possibly she wanted to make me feel guilty for my bare faced lie, but I wasn't the only one who had lied rather than just admitting they hadn't done it...

Another time, my sister and I went to the shop and were slightly taken aback at how much it had all cost. We got back in the car and pored over the receipt, convinced we'd been undercharged, all ready to storm into the shop and demand our money back. We then realised we had been undercharged by about a tenner, so we just drove away...

In my youth I accidentally started a riot. I used to drink with my older colleagues who were all big, well built hard drinkers and I was a skinny little runt who would have a pint and fall over.

We would walk into a pub and order a pint and half way down the pint they would say “next pub” and I’d leave half my beer and walk out. I decided that this wasn’t the right thing to do so I ordered a bottle of beer, when they moved on I casually slipped it into my jacket pocket and walked down the street with it, drinking it when we were out of sight. Finished the bottle and rather than leave it on the street I tossed it over a fence into a site cleared for redevelopment. Don’t know what happened but the bottle bounced off something, came flying back and smashed a taxi window. Taxi driver jumped out of the car and ran across the road to a group of people queuing for a pub and decked a chap in the queue. A friend of the chap in the queue punched the taxi driver and the whole thing turned into a free for all, it was like the wild west. I ran away and hid in the toilets of another pub.

Woke up next morning, badly hungover and with no recollection of most of the night before. Went into work on Monday and nothing was said. That evening walked into the mess room at work and everyone was gathered round the local newspaper laughing at me. Showed me the front page with the words Saturday night riot as headline. Sub headline said 30 people involved in riot, 8 arrested and several injured.

I still burn with shame and it must be 30 years ago.

Oops, meant we thought we had been overcharged!

I once shoplifted a bin - yes a bin. In Tesco I had a bin inside another bin at the checkout but the lady only scanned the one on the outside.

Funny you should say that but... I did an Iceland order and had it delivered for last night, well it came last night and I was a bit miffed because the delivery man didn't deliver to my door he delivered it to my patio gate plonked them on the top step and went back and fore to get the rest of the bags, he was doing this while on his mobile😡 and I didn't realise that he didn't leave the list of course I was fuming and was waiting for the email asking how the delivery went to complain.
Well I never even received an email...until today! Saying that they are looking forward to delivering my order!!! I'm waiting until 8:00, the time I booked my delivery and had it delivered last night. Will they realise their mistake? Will they try to delver order twice? Will I act as if this is my first order or will I fess up and say I had delivery last night???🤔
I await in eager anticipation!

Thing is I don't have any room in my freezer for a second order!

Nothing yet, must have realised they delivered already. Because even tho he never left my shopping list, I did sign the delivery note.

I'm not telling you

My Dad, about 30 years ago, went to stay with an old mate. They went to mate's local and drank something outrageous like 15 pints of Guinness. Got back to the house, mate had the most terrible row with his wife and ended up telling Dad he had to leave. He got in the car and drove home, praying all the way, promising God that if he got home alive, he'd never drink another drop before driving again. He never did, and never drank Guinness again either.

Taking something from a supermarket accidentally happened to me a few weeks ago in a sleep deprived moment with my newborn. It was hanging on the trolley and I never noticed it. Ironically, it was a top for baby which read 'I love Mummy'...

At school, I could get away with murder, such as being late every day as I was perceived as being good. Those perceived as being naughy couldn't get away with a thing.

I never leave my work laptop in the car ever. But ONE day I had gone shopping after work, took the shopping in and forgot to go back for my work computer. Left it on the passenger seat in a bag. My car got broken into that night, they were after the sat nav but didn't find it, I think a neighbour disturbed them. They broke the passenger side windows, shattered glass all over the bag with laptop in. Didn't see it, still sat there covered in broken glass in the morning

My life.
When a gun was held to my head in a country where life is cheap.

I've NCd for this.

I have a proper professional job, the kind where you need qualifications.
Now I do have all the qualifications to allow me to do my proper professional job.
However I don't have all the other, lesser, qualifications that are required. I'm not entirely sure how I got away with it to be honest.
I blagged my way onto the course and no one ever checked.

Oooh, my life too! Was accosted from behind by a chap holding a knife to my throat. Some ancient self-defence training kicked in somehow, and I identified him as "Anxious, try talking". Opening a conversation in that position proved a little difficult, particularly as I was still learning the language. Anyway, talking worked ... I ended up sitting on the kerb outside an all-night petrol station (bright lights; I felt safer) listening to his life story.

After a few hours I persuaded him I really needed to sleep. He got all nervous again, so I promised him we'd meet tomorrow and continue our lovely chat. Then, obviously, I warned the staff at my B&B and stayed well clear of the area for a few days.

What's your story, Tiger?

We ordered a new bed for our eldest (as he'd broken it by bouncing on it - high sleeper!) We received it with no problems, but as we went to put it together, the parts didn't identify with the instructions!

Packaged it all back up, called & were told by the large company the replacement would be with us before the New Year & they'd collect the old one at the same time. Courier turned up on New Years Eve to collect the 'faulty' one, but not deliver the new one, so I refused to let him take it away.

Cue lots of emails & phone calls etc, resulting in a newer, better bed being sent, with a gift card for compensation . . . . but the old bed wasn't collected 6 months later, so Husband had another go at assembling it & youngest son now has a lovely new bed too!