To think Mumsnetters are an extraordinarily law abiding lot

[Houseofmirth66]

Just read another thread where OP was concerned she was about to be busted by the cops for opening a letter addressed to her actual house and came up with a list of things I’ve done I could actually have been arrested for. I’m not proud of them but I was a shoplifter as a teenager, have driven drunk (would never do it now) jumped into an idling lorry with a friend and drove it, committed a minor fraud…There were others but I am an extremely upstanding law abiding type in middle age and don’t think of myself as a wrong ‘un. Am I being unreasonable to assume that even mumsnetters must have had some brushes with criminality in their youth?

Wanna pop round?

hahaa thank you... I'd get sacked though.. 🤣

I get random drug tested frequently in my line of work lol 🌸

@PallasStrand

I those those hysterical posts about accidentally opening someone else’s post are actually more about the low-grade perma-anxiety Mn seems to attract. See also ‘The school run is a daily psychological gauntlet of cliques and side-eye’ and ‘A driver ahead of me accidentally hit a cat and just moved the body to the side of the road — am I a bad person for not spending a fortnight combing the city for its owners and paying for an elaborate funeral?’

HahhahaAAA

Pretty sure I've broken a few laws over the years, nothing considerable, recreational drugs, forgot to scan an eyeliner once or twice in a corporate mega shop which I felt zero guilt about. I remember when I was backpacking in my 20s it was kind of ok to nab sweets from a mega store on occasion but stealing from another person unthinkable which are morals I kind of still stand by.

You should have seen the ‘I stole a plastic bag from Sainsbury’s’ thread OP.

People were nearly passing out in anger. I believe smelling salts were suggested at one point.

I sometimes think on here people just want to disagree.

I bet if you posted saying 'I've just realised I broke the law, I'm feeling terrible and I'm going to hand myself in' you'd be told you were wasting police time or something.

You might have shoplifted and driven drunk but at least you have never stolen a dozen sachets of nutella and jam from an overpriced breakfast buffet.

Tell me more about the idling lorry.........

I’m fairly certain there’s not been many days since I was 15 that I haven’t broken some law or another, and I’m 40 now.

Never been caught though, so did it even happen?

I did loads of illegal and dodgy stuff when I was young and have a criminal record as a result.
But that was 20yrs ago and I'm not that person now and it's honestly hands in head cringeworthy when I think of it.
But I think its made the person I am, possibly more rounded and less judgy of others.

Though some people go the other way and become holier than though reformists. So maybe MN is full of ex cons!

Also I spelt the word 'weird' wrong on a recent thread which obviously needs some form of prosecution

*I sometimes think on here people just want to disagree.

I bet if you posted saying 'I've just realised I broke the law, I'm feeling terrible and I'm going to hand myself in' you'd be told you were wasting police time*

Honestly people come here to be disagreeable because for whatever reason the don't get the opportunity to do so IRL.

Men don't on the whole come here to argue because they are 'allowed to do so IRL