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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust before Christmas, when I was a kid of about 15 or so....
I was in a bathroom when a girl left her pocketbook on the sink when she went into the bathroom stall. I stole her purse and gave away all it's contents, including the money...I just wanted the purse, cause I was 15 and didn't own a purse.
I gave her driver's license to a friend, who got pulled over, and showed her license to the cop! I was sitting beside her, and she gave me up! Surprise! I Admitted to the crime, and went to court.
I told the judge I just wanted the purse, and everything just seemed to go away. Not sure what happened?
Anyway, that Christmas, under the tree was a beautiful purse! I still cry after 50 years!
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)...probably saw you knew it was wrong. They were correct. And, now it makes a wonderful Christmas story!
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)I had numerous run-ins and ended up on juvenile probation. It consisted of curfew of 7 pm for 1 month. When I successfully completely that, I had 9 months of curfew of 7 on weeknights and 10 on weekends.
I was a senior in high school.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Glad you 'reformed" and reformed to the right side!!!
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)It slid off my pile of books as I walked home from school, and i didn't realize it was gone for a few steps. Whoever took it was seemingly gone so I enlisted my friends and a cousin who was a semester ahead of me. I was determined to get that purse back. My cousin found out who took it a few days later, so i went to the culprit's apartment to get it back. She tried to bluff it out but i was unyielding and after a few minutes she gave me the purse. After I left in triumph, I looked at the inside of the purse more closely. She had written angrily all over the red satin lining in ballpoint pen. I never used that purse again... probably because I realized that the thief was poor and jealous of the girls whose parents could buy them things like a gold purse for Christmas.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)My mother during those days was drinking and not much of a mother...I dated a lieutenant who went to viet nam...and I was 14!
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)I don't know if it was envy or jealousy that led the other girl to grab my purse and run but I hope life got better for her when she grew up.