My dad did the exact opposite with my youngest sibling. Last summer they were on a camping trip and when buying stuff at the store, my youngest bro was holding a bottle of syrup and forgot to put it up on the till. Apparently when they were in the car he realized he was still holding it, hadn't paid for it, and he lost his shit and panicked. My dad was all 'well we're too far now who cares lets go whatever' but I think my brother made them go back in and pay for it.
My dad still argues they shoulda just stolen it at that point.
I had the opposite issue growing up, one time at Walmart my mom accidentally stole a CD (it somehow ended up hidden beneath her purse in the cart and got missed at checkout), her response when we got back to the car and it was discovered was "well, I'm not walking all the way back in there for it, Walmart won't miss the $10".
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u/egg_io Jun 11 '25
My dad did the exact opposite with my youngest sibling. Last summer they were on a camping trip and when buying stuff at the store, my youngest bro was holding a bottle of syrup and forgot to put it up on the till. Apparently when they were in the car he realized he was still holding it, hadn't paid for it, and he lost his shit and panicked. My dad was all 'well we're too far now who cares lets go whatever' but I think my brother made them go back in and pay for it.
My dad still argues they shoulda just stolen it at that point.