I am not advocating shoplifting, but we all did something dumb as a kid. What is your story?
Me, I was 2 years old and at Tim Hortons with my mother and a family friend. This was almost 50 years ago and Tim Hortons still had servers back then, so there was a cutout in the counter for them to go in and out. The donuts are in racks behind the counter. I had had a chocolate donut paid for by my mother, and apparently I decided I wanted another, and I was so little I nipped behind the counter when nobody was there, helped myself to another, and was only discovered when my mother noticed me polishing off a different donut. She did pay for it and everyone laughed, I was just little and it was funny. Sadly the quality of Tim Hortons donuts has gone way downhill over the intervening years, as older Canadians know.
A newspaper.
Did not know it was stealing… I was … maybe 7?
Up until that point in my life, I’d only ever been to stores or restaurants that had free flyers or small community newsletters.
First time I was in a similar small store, I assumed full, 30+ page newspapers worked the same way.
After being informed that full newspapers cost money, and I had stolen it, I returned it.
The store clerk did not even realize I had taken the paper, laughed, appreciated my honesty, and gave me a tootsie pop.
Aww…