At Costco today, as the kids were playing with the toys, I saw a woman bring a box over and set it down on a table. She then proceeded to rip open the box and take 2 small bottles out. She put them into her pocket. She glanced up at me and I gave her a, "Did you really just do that?" look. She came over to me and said, "It's ok". I responded, "No, it's not." She said, "You're right. It's not. I'll pay for the whole box." "Yes", I said.
She then proceeded to go pick up the box and walk off. I walked over to an employee and described what happened and gave a description of her. He walked off and I saw he found the empty box she had obviously dumped somewhere. About 10 minutes later, I saw her sitting at a table at the food court. The employee walked up to me and said, "There is actually a lot of people with blue plaid shirts, so I couldn't find her". I told him not to look behind him, but that she was sitting right there. He thanked me and I left. Who knows what happened, but I found it so interesting that she would actually hang out there after someone had caught her rather poorly executed theft. Wow.
2 comments:
Wow! What drama! So interesting! You ROCK - I love your simple, "No, it's not."
I can't believe she would even come over and say "it's okay" to get you to go along with it.
YAY, KELLY!!!!! I hope justice was served. Though the good angel on my shoulder wants me to also feel sorry for her that she is driven to do this. And I do. A little. =)
I'm proud of you, Kelly. You could have just looked away as though you didn't see her take the bottles.
Getting caught can often end up being the best thing for a person--propelling them toward "turning around." I hope that's the case with her.
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