One day after my mom and I finished shopping at city market, Mom went to the self check out and I went to look at the candy. The candy shelf was conveniently place behind the self check out so I was easy to not be spotted.
Being the stupid little kid I was when I really wanted I would do what ever it took to get that something. Whether it was throwing a tantrum, or doing something that I knew was wrong. In this case I did something I knew was wrong. The one candy I would look at in particular was the tic tacs. It was so easy to open and so susceptible to stealing. So I would take a container of tic tacs off the shelf and I would open it and pour some in my hand and eat it. Then, I would put it back on the shelf half gone and go on my merry little way.
I stopped doing that for multiple reasons, for one my family started watching a crime show and one episode was a young boy getting busted for shoplifting. That really hit me hard, it did not want to get talked to by a police officer. Two, my mom caught me. That is a story all on its own, and three, this took awhile, but I finally look up only to find there was a security camera right over me the whole time. The real question is, I wonder why city market never caught me?
To be honest I knew I was doing something wrong, but I never thought it was that bad. I never thought I would get caught. I think people will eventually learn the difference from good and bad, but I don't think people know from birth. I think you have to be taught. Now that being said I don't think that just because people know what is wrong and right does not mean that they the necessarily will follow that. Bank robbers know that robbing a bank is wrong, but they still do it. I knew that what I was doing was wrong, but I still did.
4 comments:
This is great. I don’t think your the only one who has done something so silly. I know I personally haven’t done this or anything like this probably because I was and still am so innocent. Meaning when I was little my parents would just tell me to cry and with no meaning I would just cry. Great job you really made me actually think about my childhood!
I think every kid has done something like this at some point. I stole candy from the checkout line when I was younger, but I didn’t really think anything of it. I really want to know how your mom caught you though! Amazing job!!
I'm wondering about all those people who bought the tictacs that you pilfered from! I mean, do you think they ever knew?? :)
I’ve never actually done anything like this. How did your mother find out?
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