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Shoplifter Denied
So, we dropped a few things off at the new house, checked it out again for various things, and talked more about our plans for the property. Then, we headed down to what will be our new local grocery store.
We get there and find that the parking lot is pretty badly designed. It could use a repaving, and it desperately needs to have the lines repainted. Plus, it appears that the drivers there suck much worse than the drivers here, and it's only 5 miles away. >_<
As we're wandering the aisles, checking out how it's laid out differently than our current store, we turn up the pet supply aisle. We're low on the kitties' gooshy food so we start looking for where they keep it.
As we turn into the aisle, I notice this guy stuffing what looks like a bag of kitty treats or similar into a side pocket on his shorts. I give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he's just sticking it there because he was too stupid to get a cart. But it quickly becomes obvious that he plans to shoplift whatever it was, as he is adjusting his pocket to not look crammed full of unpaid-for merchandise as he saunters his way to the checkouts with the couple of items he planned to actually buy.
I'm keeping cool while keeping an eye on him without being too obvious (despite us being the only white people in the entire store). I watch him fistbump the security guy and keep on trucking. I give him time to get out of my general vicinity, then call the security guy on over and let him know that the guy he just fistbumped has stuff in his pocket. He thanks me and turns around to go have a chat with the would-be thief.
We go on our way and are on the end aisle with the baked goods when the security guy walks on by and puts a bag of rotisserie chicken foodstuffs back under the heatlamp where they're kept. As he passes, he thinks me for the heads up on the thief and we go on about our business.
On a brighter note, when we got to the checkout, we moved to the shortest lane as another older guy is just deciding to move to the same line. We're in no hurry so we go ahead and let him ahead of us. He gushes at us for being nice and that it really made his day as he'd been going through a lot of stuff (which he proceeds to tell us about at length
) and he really appreciated what we did.
We got to thwart a shoplifter and make someone's day all in one shopping trip. I'd say it was a good night.
Oh, and the cake was delicious, too.
^-.-^
We get there and find that the parking lot is pretty badly designed. It could use a repaving, and it desperately needs to have the lines repainted. Plus, it appears that the drivers there suck much worse than the drivers here, and it's only 5 miles away. >_<
As we're wandering the aisles, checking out how it's laid out differently than our current store, we turn up the pet supply aisle. We're low on the kitties' gooshy food so we start looking for where they keep it.
As we turn into the aisle, I notice this guy stuffing what looks like a bag of kitty treats or similar into a side pocket on his shorts. I give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he's just sticking it there because he was too stupid to get a cart. But it quickly becomes obvious that he plans to shoplift whatever it was, as he is adjusting his pocket to not look crammed full of unpaid-for merchandise as he saunters his way to the checkouts with the couple of items he planned to actually buy.
I'm keeping cool while keeping an eye on him without being too obvious (despite us being the only white people in the entire store). I watch him fistbump the security guy and keep on trucking. I give him time to get out of my general vicinity, then call the security guy on over and let him know that the guy he just fistbumped has stuff in his pocket. He thanks me and turns around to go have a chat with the would-be thief.
We go on our way and are on the end aisle with the baked goods when the security guy walks on by and puts a bag of rotisserie chicken foodstuffs back under the heatlamp where they're kept. As he passes, he thinks me for the heads up on the thief and we go on about our business.
On a brighter note, when we got to the checkout, we moved to the shortest lane as another older guy is just deciding to move to the same line. We're in no hurry so we go ahead and let him ahead of us. He gushes at us for being nice and that it really made his day as he'd been going through a lot of stuff (which he proceeds to tell us about at length
) and he really appreciated what we did. We got to thwart a shoplifter and make someone's day all in one shopping trip. I'd say it was a good night.
Oh, and the cake was delicious, too.
^-.-^
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