s/o poll- have you ever shoplifted?

[papie]

Twice, at Woolco.  I was maybe 12? (this totally dates me, doesn't it?) I was with my cousin, her dad lived close to the mall and wwe stole lipsticks to see if we could get away with it.  We could.  We tried again the following week and got caught.  I still remember how terrified I was.  The security guard said he would call our parents, but we cried and begged and he didn't and let us go. 

[Bernadine]

Never. I was too scared of getting caught.

[tigress]

I stole make up as a teen/young adult from Target.

[furby]

Noooo! (I'm too much of a wuss).

[luckyval]

I did a couple times when I was a kid - candy bars, sodas.

One time my sister and I opened the box of those pore strips when they first came out and each stole a couple because we didn't want to pay for the whole box if they didn't work

[Deleted]

i stole a blue crayon from a crayola box at eckerds when i was about mia's age. and i felt so, so bad. but my blue crayon was missing and i had big plans.

[ElizabethBennet]

Never. I'm a rule follower and have always been afraid of getting in trouble.

[Deleted]

yes, from the dollar store in middle school. dream big!

[papie]

My little cousin stole a pair of shiny shoes from Woolco as a kid. She walked out of the store with her mom, opened her jacket and said "LOOK WHAT I GOT!". My aunt (who is mentally ill, although medicated) thought it was the funniest thing ever and let her keep them. She would come visit at our house (younger than 5, because she moved in with us at 5) and steal my toys, then go put on her jacket and yell "MOM, LET'S GO! BYE BYE!". We knew there was something in that jacket when we heard that lol.

[tacokick]

Feb 22, 2013 12:20:13 GMT -5 luckyval said:

I did a couple times when I was a kid - candy bars, sodas.

One time my sister and I opened the box of those pore strips when they first came out and each stole a couple because we didn't want to pay for the whole box if they didn't work

I worked at CVS in HS and pore strips and band aids were stolen all the time. We'd find the empty boxes on the shelf. I think they are just expensive enough yet feel like something that should be cheap so no one wanted to pay for them.

[lauralala]

Feb 22, 2013 12:31:34 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Feb 22, 2013 12:20:13 GMT -5 luckyval said:

I think they are just expensive enough yet feel like something that should be cheap so no one wanted to pay for them.

This was my justification when I stole makeup as a teen.  It cost too much, and I thought I deserved to have it.  I did it a lot through my freshman year of college, and never got caught.  I was an idiot.

[birdistheword]

Never. I was always SUCH a goody-two-shoes, probably to the point of annoying other people.

[hbear]

Never on purpose.

But I might have forgotten to pay for something (bottom of the cart or something like that) and did not go back. Except once, when it was a really expensive item and that made me feel bad. But socks, nah, I just let it go.

[verycontrary247]

Yes. I stole a bunch of random things as a stupid teenager. I got caught too!

I think this is why I'm so good at picking them out now, even when they aren't being super obvious like today's example.

[margotmacomber]

I stole some cheap touristy jewelry from a Kings Island gift shop.  It was easy and yet terrifying. I'm guessing it was sometime in middle school.

[macmars45]

My twin sister stole candy when we were preschoolers and shared it with me. So no technically I didn't steal, but by association, yes.

[rex]

Never.

[BlackCanary]

Nope.

[soozy87]

No. Of course not.

[Deleted]

Feb 22, 2013 12:46:50 GMT -5 hbear said:

Never on purpose.

But I might have forgotten to pay for something (bottom of the cart or something like that) and did not go back. Except once, when it was a really expensive item and that made me feel bad. But socks, nah, I just let it go.

This happened to me once and I felt soo guilty, I had to go back and pay.

[revolution]

Once. I was young and I wanted gum. My mom said no so I took a pack anyway.

My dumbass decided to chomp away on the ride home - busted. And bonus, it was my dad's pharmacy I stole it from. My mom turned around and made me go back into the pharmacy and take the open pack of gum to my dad and tell him what I did. I cried so much, he was so mad at me (or at least acted mad and then laughed after I left - who knows.)

I just remember them being so made at me and being mortified that I had to walk back and tell my dad what I did. And then the look on his face.

[amberlyrose]

When I was 5ish, I opened one of those art cases at walmart that had pens, markers, notepads, and stickers. My mom said I couldn't have it so I took a notepad from it. I figured it wasn't stealing if it wasn't the WHOLE box, right?
I still feel guilty about that to this day! The poor kid who actually got the art case and didn't have a notepad in it

[emjacobs]

I stole a gallon of milk once on accident. It was on the bottom rack of the cart and I totally forgot to check. It was while I was in Ohio and I was parked in the back of the lot, it was negative temps and snowing, and I wasn't walking back.

I felt bad and told them the next time I was in there and they laughed and said everything was fine.

[agnes]

Only when I was like 5. I really wanted these sticker earrings:


My mother didn't want to buy them for me. My mother freaked out and it stuck with me.

[goaskalice]

Nope. My college roommate was a klepto though, she literally stole thousands of dollars worth of clothes and shoes. She finally got caught, only stealing a wallet, ironically one of her smallest swipes. She had to do community service and pay a fine. It was her wake up call.

[Deleted]

This poll is driving home the point that 13 year olds are dicks.

[Deleted]

I went through a phase around age 18.

[Deleted]

When I was 2 I put a shirt in the stroller when my Mom wasn't looking. That's about it. I'm a rules person.

[game blouses]

When I was a teenager I switched my (crappy) sunglasses for (less crappy) sunglasses on the shelf. I made a big show of trying the old ones on, then shaking my head and putting on the new ones. I wore them out.

[malibu]

Nope. Was way too afraid of getting caught.