The Block is a Thief!
@theBlock (2657)
United States
November 18, 2016 1:04pm CST
Well, was a thief. When I was 8 years-old a few of the older kids coerced me into stealing a candy bar from the corner store. The other kids got away, but the store owner, who was from the Middle East, easily caught me.
He grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and lifted me against the wall, so to be eye to eye with him. What he had said scared me to death.
"If you steal again, little boy. I will Hit you.... I will Destroy you...."
Okay, I could live with being hit. But destroyed? No way! At least kill me. I never stole again....
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12 responses
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
18 Nov 16
I still feel the guilt of stealing a gumball. I wasn't caught, but I nearly choked on it!
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
19 Nov 16
@theBlock Exactly!
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@cindiowens
See-- you were being punished--- lol
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
18 Nov 16
Well at least you learned your lesson!
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
19 Nov 16
@theBlock I have to say you were fortunate. You know in some areas of the Middle East thieves get their hand/hands chopped off when caught stealing.
Glad you learned your lesson!
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
19 Nov 16
@Shellyann36 I know, huh.... I wonder if they did it to little kids
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@Shellyann36
I had to be terrified to learn my lesson--lol
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
18 Nov 16
You learned your lesson young :)
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@theBlock Hahaha! Do you still live in the neighborhood?
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@infatuatedbby
He would still scare me if I saw him today
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@infatuatedbby
No. I never want to go back just in case I see him there
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
18 Nov 16
I am wondering what he meant by destroy, probably just an expression from his mother country or wrong English
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@louievill
It was just an exaggeration, but it worked
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
18 Nov 16
@theBlock i could just imagine his face and yours when he said it 
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
18 Nov 16
@louievill We can laugh at it now, but not back then
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@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
22 Dec 16
You learnt a very valuable lesson that day and it probably helped keep you on the straight and narrow all these years
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
22 Dec 16
@Freelanzer Yes, it did help me keep a straight and narrow path, but with a few twists and turns along the way
@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
18 Nov 16
Well at least you learned your lesson so it was a good thing!
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
27 Nov 16
i think most of us have had other kids push us into such things. my mom took an extention cord to my legs for stealing some polish with my friends they talked me into. i carried around some cuts from that long enough to learn my lesson. after that though mostly it was ethics and God that kept me from it1 person likes this
@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
1 Dec 16
Well, I am glad you got scared out of stealing again, I think I would have been terrified too.
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@theBlock (2657)
• United States
1 Dec 16
@Carmellanirel2
Yeah, but it was a lesson learned---and boy, did I learn
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@MissNikki (5237)
• Maple Ridge, British Columbia
4 Dec 16
Oh wow, sounds like a scary way to learn a lesson! My poor Blocky!
