I will never know.............

[JoM]

I also don't think it was an accident.... if I had done something like that in error I'd have been mortified and apologised no end and gone all red in the face. Her rather blasé attitude makes me think she's done this before

I'd be the same too, totally mortified! I think she'd definitely done it before.

[Gal]

Gosh I must be very naive.....I hadn't thought she might want to nick your shopping! Was she a lady of a certain age, like me? My mind is all over the place most days, I may have picked up shopping I hadn't done without thinking, and laughed it off as a genuine mistake I'd have apologised profusely of course.

[Kaz]

Yes, I'm rather like that myself these days Gal, in which case you (or I) would have been flustered or embarrassed, this lady seemed far too blasé about it from what Rodo said

[Workingman]

I have just seen this and without having been there it is so hard to say.

I can, however, imagine some woman posting on a message board something like: "Oh God! You will never believe what I did today?"

[Rodo]

I think most of us feel that we would have been embarrassed about it if it had been an accident, whereas she wasn't at all. That is what makes us feel it was deliberate.

Hubby asked me who sat down first and I had to think, but I seem to think that I was there first and she came a bit later.

I did wonder about the assortment of things that she would end up with if she did this often, but they usually put the receipt in the bag unless you ask otherwise and she could have taken the items back to get the money I suppose. She would have had to get round the fact that payment might have been made with a card, in which case they would insist on the card for the refund. But if she did that often surely they would have started to recognise her?

Maybe it was totally innocent and she was on tranquilisers or something.