What is something you did as a child that was bad, but got away with it ( Archived) (22)

I was about 5, maybe 6 years old and had gone to K-Mart with my mom because she wanted to find a birthday gift for my dad. While there she was busy looking at watches in the jewelry department. I noticed a small display rack with necklaces and found one with a butterfly attached, so I took it and kept in in my hand the whole time. When we got home I handed it to her and said "Happy birthday mom."
She knew what I had done and took me back to K-mart and asked to see the store manager. She explained everything to the manager and then he looked at me and told me about the differences of taking things and paying for them. When he got to the part about where people go to jail for stealing, I told him I didn't want to go to jail. I thought that was it for me! My mom told the manager that I would pay for the necklace and he lead us to a chashier and said something to her. My mom handed me the money and necklace and told me to pay for it and pay attention. I sat them both on the conveyer and watched the cashier ring it up and put the money in the register. Then she handed me the necklace, change and reciept.

I learned a valuable lesson that day, and also found out later that the manager had given me a 10% discount. Reflecting back on that day, I believe that manager knew that he got his point across to me. And the discount, I believe, was his way of telling me that being honest pays off.

i wanted the whole small yard for my puppy, so i pissed in my mother's collection of plants untill they became toast

I put a dead copperhead snake in my cranky neighbor's mailbox.