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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.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

In kindergarten, a small suction-cup hourglass. The suction cup has already decomposed, but the rest is fine.

Yes, I still have it.
Unlike the pony from MLP (Twilight Sparkle) I had to "borrow" forever to someone else from family because I was a boy and had no business having a "girl toy". I also stole it in kindergarten. It was small, hard plastic figure coated with some plush-like coating. It was worn off at bottom of the legs.

I still remember it, I didn't forget. Ironic. What I stole was stolen from me.

[–] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I stole a snickers bar when I was like 5. My mom knew before I got home. She kicked my ass when I got home.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Sweets, then upgraded to lighters

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I read a YA book about someone methodically planning, then stealing a computerized chess board (a big deal in the 80's/early 90's). They recorded people saying different words for the audio message telling the clerk to lock themself in the BATHROOM, timed it out, etc. While this obviously wasn't me, it always stuck with me, and I somehow got secondhand guilt from it...

[–] tht@social.pwned.page 2 points 3 days ago

I stole a pen once, by accident

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Idk if it was the first but I stole a bunch of pens from one of my teachers after i found out she was fired.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago

I think it was something like $30 out of my brother's wallet. Boy did I get in trouble for that one. In my defense, he had just left it lying on top of his bed's side table! You can't expect a five year old to not steal $30 out of a wallet just lying on a side table in a room with a closed door!

I don't even know what I spent it on, thinking back. Probably those little styrofoam airplanes you could put together from the little store out in the country that was nearby.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I saw a grey snubnose pistol toy somebody left lying around at a rental shop when I was like... 5? It was exactly like the one I had, but mine was green and I wanted the realistic grey. Felt so bad about it once I got home that I hid it and never touched it, and then it eventually went missing.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cannot recall the first thing, but I at least know my brother got a PSP the one and only time he ever stole money from my parents. Back when those were still relevant.

Edit:

Thinking about it, probably some time off my parents life from before I was even born. Doctors did variously tests and I was supposed to be the special needs child of the family. Worst I got was a case of high functioning autism. They definitely would have taken on the challenge of raising me, but I can almost guarantee they worried enough about me that I took some time off their lives.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There was a candy machine at my local grocery store's front lobby, and when I was around 8-9, my friend and I noticed that the top of the machine wasn't attached properly. We removed the top and filled our pockets with candy. Unfortunately, I told my brother about it who told my parents who made me go apologise to the store owner

The joy and boredom of growing up in a small town

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I was like 7 and wanted some disks for a Bionicle, but I didn't want to hold onto it the entire time while looking at toys. So I put it in my pocket... and forgot about it.

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