Glad to hear about the school letting you stay. I hope this is your first, and LAST, night in a holding cell.
Dude. That's some pretty serious stuff. You don't want to turn into a complete klepto... or get used to a life of crime. These things are not "little" or "normal". And they are happening more than once. You are, or at least were, letting yourself get desensitized to something that should strike you as morally reprehensible, not to mention getting you in a whole lot of trouble. Anyway, hopefully you've learned this and will never even consider doing anything like that again. You did dodge a bullet here. But get caught doing anything else, especially with the record of what's already happened, and you'll be spending many more nights in a cell, perhaps with a new boyfriend. Take care and just make sure, while you're regaining everyone's trust, you straighten out whatever it was that led you to do these things in the first place.
You were lucky. Did the bets have to be that big for it to matter? It's not the action itself that you should worry about but what led to it and the reasons behind them. I mean what does that nice guy label that other students held you have to do with stealing? Nice guys can do wrong things. I wonder about this whole "trust" thing with your close ones too. You didn't say no firmly enough to your friend. Thinking back, would you have broken your friend's trust if you had turned him down when he put himself in that position to seemingly help you out? It's easy to make bad decisions when you have to choose in the heat of the moment. So what did you really want then? What do you want instead of what others expect out of you? This immense guilt you're feeling now will pass in time. God can only help if you know what you want to be, if you put value in yourself, and if you put meaning in your actions. It doesn't have to be for the community because if everything works out, the community will be better because of your heart and not because of your guilt or the expectations of others. Take the advice for what it is, and take care.
Wow, I think I heard about this story. Were you the one who got a parking boot on your car, and you decided to take it off? Then the school pressed charges for vandalism of school property. If this is the case, you are my hero. I always tell my buddies of this story, whenever we see a boot on someone's car.
I can't believe everyone is congratulating 3814 for avoiding the consequences of his well-documented aberrant behavior. Anyone else see a pattern here? theft stalking breaking and entering What if it were your sister, Xbox, or business involved in his prior posts? Dodged a bullet? Not mine.
I congratulated him for taking a potentially life shattering event and, instead of blaming his problems on external factors as he had in the past, looking within himself for answers while returning to God. It would have been much easier for him to continue blaming anything and everything around him for his problems and attempt to justify his actions. Should he have done what he did? Of course not. But this hiccup in his life, from what he claims, is an apparent major turning point in his life. I congratulate him for taking a bad situation and turning it into something positive.
Wow. Assuming this story is true, (no offense, but how could we know?), the first thing you should do is lose your "friend." He is no friend to help influence you to put yourself in such jeopardy. Make no mistake about it... when you have graduated and are looking for a job, this will come back to haunt you. It will be in your college record. Some businesses may not look that closely, but you are going to tell them anyway, right? And the businesses that do look are going to view that incident with alarm. Lose the "friend," and I hope this can be placed behind you.
you said that the school asked you to not leave the premises?… did the school have the right to hold you in confinement?
Mr. Duvall: Now what the young ladies in this grade need is an attitude makeover. And you're going to get it, right now. I don't care how long it takes. I will keep you here all night. Joan the Secretary: We can't keep them past four. Mr. Duvall: I will keep you here until four.
Hmmm... do what the school says and try not to piss them off more than you already have by breaking and entering and trying to steal from them, or not do what they ask and piss them off more. If he's trying to stay in the school, I'd do whatever they ask.
we both return to school on wednesday night. i'm going to have a talk with him, i mean - i think he's a good guy and all (that made a stupid decision), gonna tell him i don't look lesser on him for what happened (i cannot point at the stick in his eye when i have a plank in my own - who am i do judge?), but that we both bring out the worst in each other and that it's best to disassociate with each other as much as possible. it'll be tough, but i think it's necessary for me to do in order to not slip back into stupidity.
Why did your friend tell them about the snack incident? Not that I don't commend him for being honest, but what was the point. Officer: Have you ever stole anything before? Friend: Of sure, let me tell you all about it. At least it is all of your chest, and that is good. But aside from dissasociating because you are likely to get in more trouble, dissasociate because your friend is an idiot.
yeh, i need to talk to him about this as well...i mean, i am truly glad that i've got this time to reflect on my life...but he was a complete idiot for telling them about it (the officers asked me about it too...because they knew the incident happened on campus and were simply trying to pry for more if they could - he gave in). i don't think i'd be in much trouble at all if he never told about that, because then we could have played everything off as a prank (saying we wanted to go in the office to unplug the computers or some stupid prank)...but, all truth it out - so i got the opportunity to face everything, which is good - and escape lucky with 200 hours of community service.
I don't know why...but I was thinking about this the other day. Over two years later... -I've graduated with my English degree from that same school. -I'm engaged to the girlfriend that I was dating at the time - still thank God for giving me a woman who could forgive me. -and I have started up my own freelance writing business. It's amazing how even the biggest mistakes can't hold you back if you learn from them - I'm just thankful for all my life experiences. *and for clarifications sake..."Ride Ride" was based on a true story, but slightly exaggerated (I just re-read that one as well).
