To ask if you’ve ever accidentally stolen something

[Sevendaysaweek]

Did you return it?

When I was 10 I ate a penny sweet before we paid... such a criminal!!

@Hazelnutlatteplease

If it's happening to you regularly its not an accident.

I thought I was just being really scatterbrain just after DC were born. I now know ExH was deliberately shoplifting using the kids and the pram to get stuff out the shop.

Seriously shoplifting accidentally or otherwise is not a nice thing

This

I stole a whole tank of petrol once. Filled up, assumed my friend had paid (no idea why; they'd not gone into the shop!) and drove off. Realised later when I asked her how much it was and she looked at me like I was a nutter!

Went back the next day. They had my registration details in a little book with the amount and a timestamp. I paid, they crossed it out, no issue thankfully!

i stole a black jack when i was about 6, but i was chewing it in the back of the car and saw in the mirror it was all over my face, the guilt

jammin my first ever proper theft was of a single blackjack - aged around 5. My mum matched me back to the small store and made me apologise and pay - both she and shop guy were relaxed and matter of fact about it but I remember that as if it were yesterday - seemed absolutely huge at the time !!

When I was younger I went to my friends house and stole his Laughing cow cheese as a joke. I only realised that it wasn’t his house when I came out of the flat and Walked passed his actual flat.

I was at that age where it was too funny not to eat the poor victims cheese.

@Themadcatparade

Used a b&q tape measure to measure something in store. Got home with it in my pocket. The guilt!!! £2.99! Went back soon after but totally forgot about it and now in use regularly..... Maybe I'll go leave it on a shelf there someone

My son's bank book went missing in Year 6 of primary school - we noticed at the time because we wanted to close the account and couldn't find it, but it didn't matter because the bank let us close it anyway. But the bizarre thing is that the book turned up again this week, 3 years later! It was left in a Year 9 classroom at their secondary school and returned to us by a teacher. One of my son's pals must have taken it when he was 10, then found it aged 13 but felt too guilty to return it in person!