in not paying for my bottle of apple juice in tesco this morning

[applejuice]

i was running late this morning and could not find ds's juice bottle for lunch, i made a mad dash to tesco (parked in disabled space and left both ds's in car while i ran in ) picked up a bottle of apple juice 49p and went to the self serve till.

when i ran the bottle through i realised i only had 20p in my purse so i went to use my swich card which it would no accept??

i had a quick look around, no one was looking so i picked up the bottle and ran out to the car, the self serve till was showing some "alternative payment" message.

i spend £££ in this tesco, but what i did was still stealing i suppose. had i not taken the bottle though ds would of had no juice in his lunch, we arrived 5 mins late to school as it was without having to run home for another 29p to pay for juice.

should i go back and pay now or try and be more organised in future???

"not having enough money on your switch card to pay for a 49p bottle of juice shows how common you are, IMO."

QED!

what is an acceptable amount to bray about ? theft of a sandwich? pound of organic carrots? best rump steak?

dunno

just doesn;t sit well with me, nor parking in the disabled bay

and i am physically incapable of braying, for i am northern

5 litres of ice cream camilla

SHOPLIFTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VS

THIEF!

I'm telling on you and you're in trouble.

BANDIT!!!! ROBBER!!!! AXE MURDERER!!!

[Piers Morgan emoticon]

Putting aside the rights and wrongs of what the OP did (just assuming for a moment that this is actually a genuine thread and not as I suspect a wind up) what the hell is the point in starting a thread like this? I never understand it when I read threads along these lines. WHat actually is the OP hoping to "gain" from starting it?

I don't believe you.

Yep - next you'll be slumped up against a city centre wall with a syringe hanging out of your arm and reeking of pish.

You have started down the slippery slope of the seedy underworld of crime.............

vindication

they want other people to either say 'oh I would have done the same', or fess up to worse crimes so OP feels less bad.

you're right we are all common, because we think the rules apply to us

what little people we are

however you are obviously very, very upper-class - don't carry cash, expect to be able to waltz around doing whatever you please

Buy him a sodding flask.

On a more serious note - the crime has been committed.

No point going back to pay for it unless it is just for your own peace of mind.

Once you walked through those doors you have committed theft.

It is amazing how many get caught for something silly like that, produce the money and think that by paying for it after the event means the offence hasn't been committed.

Enjoy your lifetime of guilt!

dd once stole a cadbury's twirl from Sainsbury's and I didn't realise until we were on the bus. She wasn't yet 2 at the time and she was in her pushchair.

I never went back.

And I ate it when we got home.

Hunker, where would one purloin one of these "sodding flasks" of which you speak?
And are they legal?

Didn't mean to make my post about the twirl sound so defiant btw - meant to put a shame emoticon on...

ds once stole an entire tray of chewing gum from Sainsbury's. Didn't realise until we were half way home- he must have reached over while I was paying and just had this tray sitting on his lap (in the buggy).

Difference is, he was 18 months old.

It is a bottle of juice. Who cares. The end.

I would have done things differently but who am I to judge.

Ah, but edam, it was YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to watch and guide your son, your negligence and commonness and dubious sexual history and plain EVIL have made a thief of him! You turned an innocent little boy in to a fucking burglar

I just hope you can live with the guilt.

Edam your ds must never meet my dd - they will grow up to be Bonnie and Clyde.

What did you do with the chewing gum?

Steady on Santa!

of course i had 49p on my swich card, i even had cash in the house, but i still had the small purse that i had taken on a night out on tues in my handbag (not my usual purse) i have no idea why it would not accept my swich card but i did not have the time to find staff and ask.

switch