12/16/2009

Before I start this next installment, I just wanted to throw the little F.Y.I. out there that you guys are more than welcome to post comments. In fact, I might even encourage it. O_o
Also, I'm off today, so here's yet another story from the text archive. Its another short one, but still worth posting.

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~On this particular date, it was brought to my attention that there was an elderly woman in the store shoplifting. I know this because one of our asset protection guys had seen her leave behind three packages that turned out to be empty: some rather expensive chocolates and two over-the-counter medications out of the pharmacy. To add insult to injury, she was doing it while scooting around in one of our motorized carts.

What is the world coming to when you can't even trust a little old lady who is too frail to walk around the store on her own two feet?

To my dismay, he wasn't even able to knock her for stealing. He had noticed them in her basket, but she had already ditched the empty cartons by the time he was able to throw another glance at the old hag. Unless we searched the rest of the store, there was no way to prove that she hadn't left the items he had spotted her with somewhere else. Due to these circumstances, he would have needed to have seen the person physically remove the contents from it's receptacle to be able to accuse them of anything. It seemed as if he had already been suspicious of her before that day, too.

Crappy little grandma stealing our merchandise while navigating the store on one of our complimentary scooters... I'm surprised she didn't try to fit that in her purse, as well.