That awkward moment when the children of Honorhall Orphanage are cheering you for murdering Grelod the Kind, then you press the button at the wrong point and accidentally steal the worthless lavender sitting on her chest, and in the space of one second they go from "Yay, we love you Dark Brotherhood!" to "You could have just asked. We're telling the guards you did that".
And that awkward moment when a Riften guard comes racing into the orphanage and steps over Grelod's corpse to arrest you for attempted theft of some lavender. Nothing to see here, come along quietly to pay your fine for attempted theft and it will stay that way...
I guess the people of Riften just like lavender more than Grelod the Kind. Can't say I'm surprised.