I feel i will have lots to contribute to this thread....
Many moons ago we lived opposite a large park, once a year the travelling fairground used to visit. One year my Dad suggested I go and ask if they had any evening work to earn a few quid spending money for an upcoming school skiing trip. I got a job for the friday eve, saturday and sunday all day thirty quid for 3 days (it was 1985 ) result!
Anyhow Turning up for work friday night the gaffer in charge of handing the jobs out entrusted me to the candy floss stall/cabin, a hard nosed bloke tattoos lots of gold, you get the picture, he handed me 100 candy floss sticks and told me when they ran out i go back to him for more, at the end of the night the money in the till had better tally up with the amount of sticks he handed out to me less the ones left over !!!!
3 days went buy, money in till matched the sticks handed to me, i collect my thirty quid and off i go, school as normal monday...
Monday night there was a hell of a banging on the front door and the hard nosed bloke from the fair was demanding i hand over the money i stole from him, i protested my innocence and said i had not stole any money, knowing full well i was in for it, he had sussed my little scam. He began to explain to my Dad that they are obliged by the council to make sure ALL litter is cleared from the playing fields when they leave, he said that in 30 odd years in the fairground business it was unheard of not to have some candy floss stick intact... I had been breaking every one in half giving half measures to the punters putting the money in the till, then the next punters had the other half of stick and the money for it found its way into my pocket...!