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Ooops-either dd1 or I shoplifted today.

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Mirage · 07/01/2006 19:40

I was out shopping with the dd's today & went into a shop to buy some bin liners.The 1st ones I picked up were the wrong sort,so I put them back on the shelf,picked up the right ones & went to the till to pay.In the meantime dd1 who is 27 months,was picking up items from the shelves & trying to give them to me to buy.I made her put everything back,paid for my stuff & went home.

When I unpacked the basket under the pram,I found the 1st bin liners that I'd picked up.Then I found the right ones,in a bag with the receipt,.

Either I'm losing my mind & put them in the pram basket instead of back on the shelf,or dd1 put them there when I wasn't looking.I was quite worried about it & couldn't help thinking 'what if a security guard had stopped me?'

DH keeps laughing at me & saying 'tell it to the judge',but I don't think it's funny.

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gigglinggoblin · 07/01/2006 19:45

dp still laughs at me about shoplifting two packets of flower seeds which i shoved in the pram shade before i started putting stuff in the pram basket and then forgot about. i was horrified when i found them but didnt go back and pay for them, i couldnt stand the shame. this was about 3 years ago and he still likes to tease me about it. i paid for the stuff in the pram basket, i just forgot about putting them on the top of the pram if you see what i mean

hope cod the magistrate doesnt get on here

Auntymandy · 07/01/2006 19:47

My Ds 'stole' a purse once..I rushed back to the shop with it. then when i got to the car he had a keyring!!!
Older DS wants to take him shopping with him!!!

Flossam · 07/01/2006 19:49

I had to take a huge pile of xmas cards that DS had grabbed back to Clintons when xmas shopping. I saw this card land on the floor and this couple looking open mouthed at me so I asked them if they saw if it came from DS - they said 'Yes look!' and he had about 10 more in his little mitts. One of them ended up a bit bent too.

MarsLady · 07/01/2006 19:53

I once arrived home with 12 loo rolls I hadn't paid for. I popped them onto the buggy handle, filled my basket with shopping. Went to till, paid for stuff in basket. Walked out of shop. Got home, unpacked. Woke in the night..... sudden memory flash

Milliways · 07/01/2006 19:54

I am always worried about remebering things hanging on end of trolley - large packs loo rolls etc , which frequently get pushed passed cashier once trolley emptied, & I notice whilst packing things back up. Once I nearly left with a tray of 12 cat tins that was on lower trolley shelf!

SoupDragon · 07/01/2006 21:32

I've done the pram-shade thing with some sun cream before and recently forgot to scan in a packet of loo rolls with scan-and-shop (in my defense, it was 23rd Dec and I just wanted to get out of Waitrose with my children alive and my sanity intact!) DS2 (then about 2.5) once ran through a shop at a children's farm, grabbed a handful of rings from a display and ran out. I did manage to return all those though.

sparklymieow · 07/01/2006 21:36

DS stole a nail varnish once, I was buying some makeup in superdrug and he was in the buggy, I got home and found a bright, bright pink nail varnish tucked beside him inthe buggy I didn't take it back (but I never used it either, it was a gross colour) but I didn't go back into superdrug for months afterwards I was so embarrassed.

notasheep · 07/01/2006 22:24

Got a crate of Stella taken to my car as couldnt carry it with ds in pushchair and the beer wasnt scanned!!!!!!!
Being very honest,i didnt tell them

Flamesparrow · 07/01/2006 22:28

DD is becoming an accomplished shoplifter . She started small with a tapemeasure from Wilkinsons (was playing with it, then got out of pushchair and chucked it in the seat, under her coat and I forgot she'd had the thing, but her best effort was Waterstones...

Me, my friend, and two toddlers. They kept handing us these handbag books from a display, and were generally running round benig the kind of kids that get muttered about and parents who don't keep control . We told them to put them back, and we thought they had... Went to fold the pushchair into the car, and found one of the books!!! Both of them said the other one did it (team work til the last).

Again, too embarrassed to take it back!!!

edam · 07/01/2006 22:34

Ds got away with a whole tray of chewing gum once - must have half-inched it while I was paying. I was half way home before I looked down at his lap and spotted it. Can't imagine what all the people walking towards must have thought. I don't even LIKE blasted chewing gum.

He's also nabbed tomatoes as I've been pushing him round. Offered to pay when I got to the till but teenage boy cashier said 'Oh, I think Sainsbury's can afford a tomato, don't you', bless him.

My sister, as a toddler, emerged from being pushed round a market with a swimming costume that actually fitted her!

Maybe those companies trying to persuade us all to use parent-facing pushchairs are actually out to stop shoplifting...

fireflyfairy2 · 07/01/2006 22:39

FS knows the one about me and a cardi

Still have it, it's nice and warm

misdee · 07/01/2006 22:41

dd1 once ran out of our rpice with a dvd shouting 'I WANT IT MUMMY'. she already had it anyway. the bloke on the tills just laughed.

jamiesam · 07/01/2006 22:42

oops, just reminded me that I shoplifted one of dh's christmas presents - 'only' a magazine, but did intend to return and offer them the money ... too late now?

Am also embarrassed nearly every visit to supermarket - when I get to the checkout and offer to pay for the yogurts that ds2 has already broken into, and I knew he would do it because he always does, and I should put my foot down and demand that they go in the trolley and ..... weak smile and checkout staff takes pity and sends for another unsullied pack of yog...

Flamesparrow · 07/01/2006 23:13

I was thinking about you and the cardy as I was writing!!!

Melpomene · 07/01/2006 23:31

My dd1 half-inched a pink handbag from Clare's Accessories when she was 1. She was in her pushchair and after we'd left the shop I noticed the bag in her lap.

I went straight back and surreptiously put the bag back on the shelf.

Blondeinlondon · 08/01/2006 00:19

I caught my 8 mth old with his hand in a lady's shopping bag whilst on the tube - he was trying to get her very nice red pashmina!

gingernut · 08/01/2006 00:29

ds1 stole a policeman figure from a display in a toyshop once. He put it in his pocket (this was just after MIL had been teaching him how to put things in his pockets!). We actually already had one exactly like it so I was intending to return it to the shop next time we went there, but then we lost the original (which was less battered IYSWIM) so I never did . Divine retribution maybe .

Mytwopenceworth · 08/01/2006 00:37

reminds me of the time I was shopping, ds1 was in the trolly seat and we were at the tills, I'm busy and then I hear a "NO!" turn round and ds1 is reaching over to the next till trying to grab the money as the woman was getting her customer's change!

Oh, and he also swiped an old lady's handbag once. I had to wrestle it from him and hand it back.

I'm sure the people in both these situations thought I'd trained my little person to do this!

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 08/01/2006 00:46

DH accidently shop lifted a bra from la senza when we went shopping once - it got hooked to the back of his coat and he walked round with it stuck there until i noticed

Then he had to take it back and explain he was very

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Mirage · 08/01/2006 19:46

I'm glad its not just us then.

I had to take the dd's shopping again today & was Mrs Paranoid,checking the pram basket before we left every shop.Apart from dd1 weeing on the floor in WH Smiths,the trip was without incident.

DH has reminded of the time I nearly shoplifted half a dozen miniature cacti in a garden centre.I was wearing a wooly jumper & as I leant over them to pick something else up,they all stuck to my arm,leaving their pots behind.

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Wallace · 08/01/2006 20:07

When ds was little he used to get a little toy car from tescos when we did the shopping. He used to hang it on the hook on the trolley, hand it to the lady at the till, then hang it back on the hook. Once as we were walking away from the till a security guard came up to ask us if we'd paid for it he'd seen the car on the hook before and after the till on CCTV, but hadn't seen ds hand it over to get it scanned. Luckily we had the receipt!

BadgerBadger · 08/01/2006 20:29

I 'buggy hooded' a tube of pile cream in a supermarket when pg with DD2, because I didn't want to walk around with it on display in my basket.

I hid it so well I forgot all about it until I got back to the car. I couldn't bring myself to go back to pay for it and it played on my mind for ages. I kept running through the likely reactions of the till staff or (urgh!) customer services if I had gone back with it!

cutekids · 08/01/2006 20:33

My hubbie put a very very large box of nappies on the bottom part of a shopping trolley once... i remember looking-i was pregnant again at the time-and thinking how clever he was to save space in the trolley!!!!! Realised about 3 months later that we'd never paid for those nappies!

albosmum · 08/01/2006 21:00

ds has taken a mobile phone out of a ladies bag (on a bus) has stolen a potato peeler and bottle of water. being v honest we returned the potato peeler and the water - the assitants have been quite bemused as to why we have bothered!

albosmum · 08/01/2006 21:00

ds has taken a mobile phone out of a ladies bag (on a bus) has stolen a potato peeler and bottle of water. being v honest we returned the potato peeler and the water - the assitants have been quite bemused as to why we have bothered!