Hey Pandas, What Are Totally Normal Things That Make You Feel Like A Criminal?

Especially when I haven't bought anything.

Same, as it does happen occasionally because not all the tags are deactivated during check-out reliably. Staff is very chill about it. If it happens to me leaving the store I walk right up to the next store employee with the receipt and they do their bit.

Doubly so if the store doesn't have entry scanners, so if you forget to take the tag out of new clothing it'll set off the alarm on the way out and you'll be left to get checked over with a hand-held gizmo in full view of everybody to prove you're not a thief.

Even when I'm reporting a crime to 911 or calling for help, I feel like I'm the one in trouble.

Let me guess, OP is a man so the cops didn't believe he could possibly be the one being stalked/abused. :(

The main reason is usually your skin color. ACAB especially the Gestapo agents!

Los Angeles freeway. We were headed to Griffith Observatory and our friend while driving kept tailgating the same car. After about 5 miles of it the car in front pulled out his wallet and hung it over the rear view mirror so we could see his police badge. Way to go Dave.

Yeah... for one of my stories I want a nerve agent that can be released that will k**l everybody quickly. Turns out that anthrax can take time. So I'm looking up the nasty stuff they used in the World Wars trying to work out what's the simplest to make that's the most deadly. Yeah...I don't fancy having to have to try to explain that to any paranoid officialdom.

We all write mysteries, don't we?

There's enough times that I buy their food without using their bathroom, I figure a few times using the bathroom without buying is just fair.

If I think I will like the free sample I will usually take at least five. 🤭

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Finding an actual book to read in person, at a store. No Amazon, no Kindle. Just the smell of old paper and knowledge. Yes I go to the Library but ifd you want to study O'Reilly's Advanced Linux Network Administration or something, I want the book.

What’s that like? 😏

Walking about at night, very late, or early morning before the sun comes up. People think you're up to something and/or shouldn't be out at that time. Anytime someone is assaulted or dies at night, outside, people in the comments question why that person was out so late in the first place.

GOING* not Doing*

Bicyclists in our town have plenty of bike paths. When they use the roads they think they are gods of the street. I've seen a bicycle rear end a car in city traffic.

My uncle met his third wife when she was 18 and he was 41. They married a year later. 4 kids and married 35 very happy years when he died. Nothing creepy or strange about it. But....the past few years have seen a concentrated effort to infantilize women in the even of any age gap of more than a few years. Every situation is not the worst imaginable scenario, everyone needs to learn to mind their own business again, and acknowledge that adults are adults, their choices are their own and how you feel about it, really doesn't matter.

I was 19 and my girlfriend was 16 when we start having s*x with each other, we just celebrated our 53rd wedding anniversary last month.