I am still thinking about when I worked in retail
I used to work in a very upper class furniture store, which was all ferny plants and leather sofas and egyptian ornaments inside, quite dark and atmospheric, if you see the sort of place.
By the front door there were these two statues all gold paint and bejewelled effect, cleopatra face and half body type.I doubt they were worth much but they were very pretty and people did sometimes ask if they could buy them, which they could not and it being before internet, we did not know where head office had acquired them in order to tell anyone, since they had been there for about twenty years already.
Anyway the statues were about waist height and probably as wide as a small child.
One day a guy decided he would sidle up to the front door while nobody was looking and grab one quickly then make off up the escalator which was right outside the shop, as it was in an outdoor shopping precinct, and thus he could be away with the statue before anyone noticed.That was his plan anyway (he told us this when we took him into the shop afterwards to give him first aid and wait for the police).
The first I knew of his plan was when I and several colleagues heard this man scream in pain as he grabbed the statue and then realising it was actually filled with concrete, just as quickly dropped it on his foot.

I could have told him how heavy it was as it took two of us to manipulate it away from the front doors at closing time, and put it back in front of them when we opened.
I used to work in a very upper class furniture store, which was all ferny plants and leather sofas and egyptian ornaments inside, quite dark and atmospheric, if you see the sort of place.
By the front door there were these two statues all gold paint and bejewelled effect, cleopatra face and half body type.I doubt they were worth much but they were very pretty and people did sometimes ask if they could buy them, which they could not and it being before internet, we did not know where head office had acquired them in order to tell anyone, since they had been there for about twenty years already.
Anyway the statues were about waist height and probably as wide as a small child.
One day a guy decided he would sidle up to the front door while nobody was looking and grab one quickly then make off up the escalator which was right outside the shop, as it was in an outdoor shopping precinct, and thus he could be away with the statue before anyone noticed.That was his plan anyway (he told us this when we took him into the shop afterwards to give him first aid and wait for the police).
The first I knew of his plan was when I and several colleagues heard this man scream in pain as he grabbed the statue and then realising it was actually filled with concrete, just as quickly dropped it on his foot.


I could have told him how heavy it was as it took two of us to manipulate it away from the front doors at closing time, and put it back in front of them when we opened.

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