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  • GreyPilgrim
    GreyPilgrim Posts: 1,636 Forumite
    i wanted a new mobile about 6 years ago (i was still in school) and i was sick while i was at p.e, anyway i ran into the boys showers and was sick everywhere so we (me and my friend) washed the showers down with water :D then i went home, dropped my mobile down the toliet and said i dropped it while i was washing up my sick :o mum couldnt afford to get a new one so i had to save my paper round money and i payed £20 of the £30 the new mobile cost :rotfl: sorry mum :A

    Four HailPilgrims and three strikes of the birch leaves.

    But still nothing REALLY bad... come on guys!!
  • snoozer
    snoozer Posts: 3,849 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    When dd was litlle I brainwashed her into giving me all her orange smarties :o


    also trained her to make sick noises whenever she saw Orville on Tv.:o
  • I found £10 in an atm and took it and spent it too
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:

    Oscar Wilde
  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Years and years ago my OH was working in Andrew Lloyd Webber's house and he took one of the kitchen knives. It was a very good knife and I still use it today.
    The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best






  • Toto
    Toto Posts: 6,680 Forumite
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    My mum and I once stole a postbox!

    She lived in a tiny village (which actually was 5 houses) and this postbox was one of the square ones on a bit of fence post. Well, she had a few to drink and had written a letter to her (soon to be) ex husband. She posted it and instantly regretted it. So at 4 am (fuled with tons of alcohol, mum really wasn't drinker) we went out with this fishing device to capture the letter. It was a stone on a bit of string with parcel tape wrapped around it sticky side out. Well, she lost the string in the box and lost the stone too, so she decided to stick her hand in to try to get the stone.

    She got her hand stuck and lost her bracelet in the post box as well, so I had to go home and get some washing up liquid to ease her hand out.

    Now she is worried about her bracelet. So in our drunken wisdom we decide to take the post box off the fence and shake it upside down to get the bracelet out. So we did (I won't say how)

    We took the box to our garage and shook it, couldn't get the bracelet. So now she decides to become a lock picker (which she isn't very good at). I actually can't now remember how we got the thing open, but we did and got the letter and the bracelet.

    But now we have a new problem because we are actually honest people and we have some mail belonging to other people and a damaged post box (and it is daylight) So, my mum dragged my brother out of bed to drive her into town so she could post the mail (didn't want it being late).

    Later that day she got a parcel box and mailed the damaged post box to the royal mail with a note saying sorry explainig the story and £30 for its repair.

    A few days later the post box was back in its spot and a note was atached saying... To whom it may concern. We hope you had a good evening, thank you for returning our property and for giving us the biggest giggle this office has ever known. However, should there be a next time an officer would gladly open the box to return your property.

    We didn't drink much after that.
    :A
    :A
    "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - Albert Einstein
  • :rotfl: to the above!!

    I snuck out before daylight on many an occasion.....
    Went out with two best friends at the same time.....
    But now I'm a grown-up, the worst thing I've done is teach my one year old to make piggy oinks on demand.
    :o


    If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

    :D
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    got really hacked off in a post office once, with the guy telling me I had to pay for a cert of posting (think that's what it was). At the time I did market research & sent work back all the time this way, so knew I had to pay ordinary postage only.

    Row went on & on, eventually, as big queue, I gave in & paid. Got to door, realised he'd made a mistake with change so went back & told him to which he replied 'tough, you'd already left' - I hadn't, was still in shop. So I shrugged shoulders and left - with change from a £50 note when I'd give him £10..... someone told me later if he was sub-postmaster he'd have to make it up himself - GOOD!!!!!

    Punishment?????
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Anastacia
    Anastacia Posts: 470 Forumite
    When we were really really poor & I was putting too small baby clothes in the Sally Anns clothes recycling thingybob & a Jacket fell out. I did put it back but kept it for a year first as we could afford one for my son. I look at that as a gift from above though.

    Around the same time there was a police chase outside of our flats & as the crim ran around the corner he threw his leather jacket off & under a car to chase his appearance as the police caught up to him. My husband always wanted a leather jacket & the police & crim were long gone so I kept it. There was nothing in it to indentify the man or I would have (probably) taken it back to the police station.

    Around the same time someone left a workmate (black & decker not actual person) against our outside wall. This is really unlikely if you saw the flats as they were an end teeace conversin on a main road. We left it out there for a day or more & then brought it in for safekeeping (no, really). We still have it 16 years later.

    I also taught my yougest son to call cheese & onion crisps dog breath flavour, which my best freidn found hysterical but my mum wasnt quite so taken with.

    Oh, dear. I am bad. (hangs head)

    Anastacia
    ....another happy bug.........sorry,blogger embracing the simple life
  • lynzpower
    lynzpower Posts: 25,311 Forumite
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    i pinched someone elses boyfreind and im marrying him
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • Emmzi
    Emmzi Posts: 8,658 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lynzpower wrote:
    i pinched someone elses boyfreind and im marrying him
    Hah hah..well, you know he's better quality that one someone was giving away!!!


    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
    Debt free 4th April 2007.
    New house. Bigger mortgage. MFWB after I have my buffer cash in place.
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