To have shoplifted from Morrisons today....

[Tryharder]

I walked to Morrisons this morning with DS2 in his pushchair. Only intended to buy a couple of things but as you do, kept piling things into the basket so I had loads to carry. At the end, picked up some jellies that were on special offer but had no room for them in my basket so balanced them on top of the pushchair and went to pay.

As I literally was walking out of the store, I looked down and saw these jellies still wedged in the pushchair in the folds of the hood (iyswim) - had totally forgotten to pay for them.

Anyway, I should have gone straight back in again and either paid for the jellies or handed them in at the customer services desk.

But, I thought oh feck it, Morrisons get enough of my hard-earned cash as it is and they can afford it and just continued out the store...

I am being unreasonable, aren't I?

Actually I take it back, I just don't care!! Gerroff me, boring thread..

But you would make the effort to go all the way back to the store next time you want to shop. So don't forget it.

Thief if you don't.

Who me? I never shop in the same place twice.

is that cos you is banned for stealing?

yesm.

damn you should never have put chunky chicken up yer jumper

Hello OP
You are a thief, plain and simple. A shoplifter.

Now, in my younger days I nicked tick tacks from Woolies, and 'borrowed' a Diesel coat from lost property for a month where I worked after I left school. Oh yeah when I was about 4 I rammed a load of sweeties in my gob when my mum wasnt looking. All 3 examples, my mum showed me how disappointed she was, to take things back, go back and pay for them, realise that it is wrong to steal and important to look after each other and each other's property. You cant teach your kids the same lesson as you are an adult who steals.

When I dropped my purse on the tube and didnt notice a man missed his stop to jump off and give it back to me, when my car got smashed and bag got stolen while I was collecting my daughter my aunty drove 2 hours with her new designer bag to give me. I'm sure these lovely things happen because I live right myself.

My perspective on life is so different to yours I feel so lucky that I had my mum and not you to show me right from wrong and feel good about the world. Enjoy skulking around feeling like a thief. Take it back and change your ways - and yes I am being serious. Stop the rot!!

Dh and I once had a very (horrifyingly so) expensive meal in a nice place in New York. We were quite jetlagged and fairly drunk. At the end of the meal I went to the loo, then DH did, and then we left.

A few days later we were talking about the nice dinners we'd had since we'd been there and I said 'by the way, how much was the dinner at X" and he said 'I don't know, you paid for it".

And we realised that both had thought the other had paid....

We hadn't run out or anything though, they had plenty of time to ask us and it was an honest mistake.

I did feel bad though, but no, I didn't go back. I probably would now though.

And when I have found money on the floor before I always donate it to the next charity box I find.

So I am nice. And pretty honest.

LOL at how much people evidently enjoy saying 'You're a thief'. I think it makes them feel dramatic.

You're a thief tryharder

not read it all through, but my advice would be to give them a call this morning, tell them wht happened and give your details so you can give them the money when you pop in next, or pay for the jellies with your card over the phone.

You will feel alot better about it. It must be niggling you to post it onhere.

This thread is just hilarious, it amazes me how sanctimonious perfect the posters on here are

Sanctimonious?
Perfect?

Possibly

Thief?

No.

There is no way round this - OP knew that she hadn't paid for the items, and was only just walking out of the store when she realised that fact, so it was hardly onerous to go back and pay for her goods.

I can't see why posters would condone this kind of behaviour. Call that what you like!

Of course its wrong. I agree with poopscoop - pay up and it will make you feel better.

Are these guys for real????

There are many injustices in this world that deserve this degree of vitriol, direct your righteousness elsewhere!

Leave the poor lady to eat her jelly.

I can multi-task, you know!

I can direct my vitriol at any injustice you care to point me at.

'Poor lady'? I think not!

By the way, definition of vitrio:

"Bitterly abusive feeling or expression."

Bit strong for what's been written here, don't you think?

Well...Once my dd (2 years old) stole a chocolate bar in our local shop and I only noticed when we were at home...went back in the afternoon and told them what has happened and they were fine..didnt want me to pay for the chocolate but I did anyway..I just wanted to show my dd that it was not right to take something without paying for it..the earlier you start the better it is into making the difference between right and wrong..but in your case, I don't know I'll have probably done the same..gosh I'm contradicting myself..am I ?

wow

some people really enjoy taking a ride on the old sanctipony don't they.......

it's a bag of jellies FFS, yes it was wrong to take them but the amount of overly pious selfrighteousness on this thread is way ott imo

"enjoy skulking around feeling like a thief" and the several blunt "you're a thief, you should be losing sleep over this" replies seem a tiny bit overwrought and lacking perspective.

like I said earlier in this thread I've stolen stationary from my work before and didn't lose sleep over it; should I be racked with remorse and hanging my head in shame over it?

Sorry but unintentionally not paying for a a bag of jellies and then not bothering to go back when you realise you haven't just doesn't rank that high on my list of moral transgressions. A lot of things going on in the world to get worked up and judgemental about, just not sure this is really one of them.

But she hadn't left the store Chen

That's the sticking point for me. Look, if she'd got home and realised, no big deal. But she realised BEFORE she had even left the shop.

You must see the difference surely?

Summerfruit was absolutely right to pay for the chocolate bar in front of her daughter though. There is actually a point there.

The lady who said she was glad her mum taught her right from wrong etc. unlike the OP's foul slattern of a progenitor (ok, I ad lib - sorry) wins the red rosette in the sanctipony gymkhana.

I walked out of M&S the other day, down the street la la la ...looked down and I was still holding their wire basket with a vest for dd in it .

I was horrified. I thought a swat team would wrestle me to the ground. Ran back in and paid...I am getting scarily absent minded these days tho.

Yes you nicked them, but its not as if you walked out with a mobile phone in the trolley.

I probably would have done the same thing just because I wouldn't be bothered to queue up again to pay for them.

Forbidden sweets always tastes nicer anyway....

Wonder how manmy people on here crying 'theft' make illegal downloads.