With cameras everywhere I of course now pay my fare on the subway and never shoplift anywhere, but when I was younger and there were no cameras, not paying your fare and shoplifting in supermarkets or big stores (never in small businesses) was considered to be cool and rebellious. I had a girl friend in the 1980's who shoplifted every time we went to the supermarket.
I used to shoplift in big bookstores when I was in the university until I got caught, but talked my way out of it offering to pay and apologizing. I can't see anything wrong with that. They're the small "rebellious" gestures of the little man or woman against the giants who own and run the system.
With cameras everywhere I of course now pay my fare on the subway and never shoplift anywhere, but when I was younger and there were no cameras, not paying your fare and shoplifting in supermarkets or big stores (never in small businesses) was considered to be cool and rebellious. I had a girl friend in the 1980's who shoplifted every time we went to the supermarket.
I used to shoplift in big bookstores when I was in the university until I got caught, but talked my way out of it offering to pay and apologizing. I can't see anything wrong with that. They're the small "rebellious" gestures of the little man or woman against the giants who own and run the system.