sticky-finger

[…] "picking up" a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.

... drove into town and bought a takeaway at a dingy working-class cafe. Then I drove up Signal Hill and in the stark, early morning light, the bay still covered in mist, watched the sun rise, sticky-fingering sausages and chips in contentment.