It wasn't me!

I'm not saying I'm the best moral compass.

There are the things that are only a little wrong in my book. For example, say you are grocery shopping with your kids and your kid HAS to have the grocery cart with the car in the front so he can pretend to drive the cart around. And you have to stop at every pillar in the store so he can pretend to fill up on gas, check the tires etc. (As if the shopping cart car uses that much gas!) And say your kid begs you for a toy from the grocery store and in a fit of desperation to get the hell out of there you say yes and not because you spoil your child and spend too much money on unnecessary items. Let's also say by the time you get to the check out lane, have waited in line and try to deflect the looks of shame from the young cashier because of the amount of cereal and wine bottles you are purchasing, you forget about the toy in the car portion of the cart. And of course the kid isn't worried about paying for it. So then you get the cart out to the real car, load the groceries and then when you finally pull your child away from the car cart you are aware that you have walked out of the store without paying for the said toy. Let's say it is also raining. Or really hot. Regardless, the environmental elements are extreme. Are you really going to haul the kid back in there with you to return the toy (you can't leave him in the car - someone could kidnap him), explain the situation and pay for it? Groceries are getting hot? You have a list of other chores to do when you get home. I mean, are you really going to the deepest part of hell for that kind of thing? Shouldn't the store really be on top of that anyway? And wouldn't it in fact be your kid that shoplifted and not you?

Now, let's say you order some furniture...maybe a couch. And at the time you ordered the couch maybe you picked up some tables while you were at it. Maybe you took those home with you that day, but had to come back to pick up the couch when it came in. Maybe when you picked up the couch, parts of it were messed up and it made you angry because you had to wait longer and you didn't have a couch and were having an event at your home soon. Maybe after dealing with this issue they told you that some of your tables were in and loaded them in your car. Maybe you didn't say "OK" or "Stop. I already got my tables." Maybe you just said nothing. And maybe when the couch did come in correctly and you went back to pick it up they put the rest of the tables in your car, too. Then, maybe a week or so later they called to say that your couch was in and wanted to schedule for delivery. Let's say your moral compass stops at one couch and not two but allows a second set of coffee and end tables. How far deep in the bowels of hell is that? Is that like 100 Hail Mary's? What if you're not Catholic? Does that make a difference.

Again, not that this happened to me at any point in my life. Just heard about it happening to someone else. Friend of a friend. Maybe I read it in the paper.

It surely wasn't me.