Have you ever stolen something? What was it, and why?
<---there's a question mark trying to come out of the box--it would be fitting if it actually WORKED!
I have quite the thieving career. I don't remember the first thing I stole, but I sure remember the first time I was caught. It was candy and boy was my dad pissed.
I'd suppose it was a case of "I see, I want, I take!".
It all went downhill from there.
Money from purses, nightstands and boxes that collector's coins were tossed into. Clothing, make-up, jewelry--'pretty things' that I didn't want to/nor had the means to pay for. And booze...lots of booze and pills from wherever I could find them, whenever I could find them. And I'd deny it every freaking time......liar, thief and cheat, yep.....
Should I count the nights of sleep that I stole from people who cared about me as well? The peace and serenity and sanity when I drug them into the insanities of my addictions and piss poor decision making? Probably.....
I stole the darnedest things--things I didn't need, things I could pawn, things that I'd never use, things no one would buy or even want.
I got better at it and went forever without getting caught redhanded. And if I was 'suspect', deny, deny, deny.
Oh.....and-- I won't forget to include the police car that I stole and disassembled and used for furniture and 'disco lighting' when I was at the peak of my 'using career'. (yes, I paid for that---literally made payments to the city for over ten years--police cars ARE expensive, just so ya know!) OR all the street signs and various other 'decorations' I claimed without the permission of the railroads or street departments. Uh huh.......they got returned/paid for and confessed to.
*shaking head at my own stupidity*
And today?
Oy geeze.......I still steal. :-O
Yes, I know that's shocking....it's still the truth.
Yep......pens mostly--which I haul back to the place of thieving and return, much to the amusement of waitresses, store clerks and receptionists.
A few times a year I collect all of the great pens that I make off with from the worksite and humbly return my 'stash'. LOL
Once a thief always a thief?
Probably......LOL
And I always deny having stolen someone's pen, mind you, even with it in my hot little hands.
*hanging head*
And I steal from the Brit ALL THE TIME.
From his dinner plate (why is it food always tastes better from HIS plate?!), from his candy jar that I fill up with sweeties that I don't even LIKE! LOL
I oughta be spanked, huh? ;-)
3 comments:
I used to steal from other children when I was little and always got caught! In fact I think their mums were on the lookout for it. And deny it too and hide the stolen things.
But Mel! A police Car ?????? Wow!
i steal lifesaver pep-o-mints from the 'rents. i would never buy them for myself, but for some reason i must have them when i'm at their house.
my mom's family hails from iowa and she stole a police car too, maybe it's something in the water.
I tell my kids reguarly about my thieving career (sixpence from the holiday jar when I was five, a tube of Smarties when I was seven and half a Bounty Bar when I was eleven) to try and drum into them how it just doesn't pay and you only end up feeling like shit afterwards (and the shit I felt was enough for those three incidents to be the sum total of my career as a theif)(sad, in respect, ain't it?)
I think it's a lesson they'll have to learn for themselves
but - WOW - a squad car!! whooeeeeee (indeed)
now, that's gotten me thinking. . . might have been tempted myself by the red Starsky and Hutch car with the white stripe if the motor was runnin' (and the boys were asleep in the back): but, would the short term gratification be worth it - would it?
don't really want to answer that, so I'll leave myself standing on the sidewalk next to that open driver's door and a view of a couple of snoozing cops and just enjoy the cheeky feeling one gets before the temptation tips you over the edge
(my approach to life really: enjoying the moment before temptation strikes)
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