Guilty Feelings over Committing a Crime Essay

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Personal Narrative/Memoir: Stealing in ClassThe game had started out simple and innocent enough: my classmate and I were swiping one another’s belongings—a pencil, a sheet of paper, an eraser—when the other was not looking. The reaction would be priceless. Then there would be laughter. And then we would do it again.Eventually, we grew tired of simply teasing each other and wanted to expand the parameters of the game. The only thing was—no one else realized what we were up to—and we quickly got carried away with ourselves.At the time, we were all sitting at long tables. No one had his or her own desk. The tables were lined up in three rows. Our table was at the back of the room. The rest of our classmates were in front of us or to our right and left. The pickings were not slim.We laughed internally as we slyly stole one classmate’s notebook, another classmate’s calculator, another’s backpack off the back of a chair. We needed a place to stash them of course—just to get them out of the way. We stifled our giggles as we snuck off with our booty, not even paying attention to where we were placing our classmates’ items.

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…grader, there is not a lot of time spent investigating or following up.But I never forgot that day. Yes, I had been extraordinarily unfair to my classmates, swiping their things—even in jest. I had gotten carried away. I didn’t like that this type of thing seemed to happen whenever I was with my “friend” in that class. To avoid that situation ever happening again, I eventually made new friends—and left that type of clowning behind.But that is why it is important to pick one’s friends wisely. If you pick the wrong kind, bad things can happen—and the older one gets, the worse those things can….....

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