In other news, I got to help with a shoplifting person last night. I didn't actually catch the girl but I was the witness for Ben when he caught her and escorted her back to the LP office. The girl was very soft spoken and fairly complacent when Ben was asking her questions. She mumbled most answers about her knowing why Ben had stopped her and if she had done anything like this. She said she had never shoplifted and didn't know why she had done it and that even though she hadn't done anything like this before she was on probation, which had started in September, for blocking a highway following a DWI. So Amy comes in and gets all the stuff to go ring it up, and the girl tried to to get away with a little over $200 worth of stuff! Then we sit in the room with the girl until the police show up to take over...and that's when all these stories and the turning on and off of the water works. The minute the cop cuffs her she starts telling this story about how she wasn't feeling like herself today because she had just gotten off anti-depression medicine that she had been taking for a few months because her Godfather had died and it was such a traumatic experience for her, and she's never done anything like this and would the cop please just do anything but take her downtown. The cop teller her that it's his decision to make and since she's on probation right now he's going to have to take her down and let the court and whatever to decided, that's when she starts crying, and then stops because he starts going through her purse and asking her questions, then she asks again if she can just pay a citation right now instead of going down, the cop tells her no and the crocodile tears start all over again. It was so hard not to laugh at some of the parts, I mean really? If you weren't feeling like yourself that day and just feeling weird all day long, you shouldn't be out, the cop even asked her why she had come out feeling so weird, she side stepped that question a few times. The he finds her car keys and asks if she has a friend that he can call to come pick up her car instead of impounding it, really nice of him if you ask me. So he calls one of her friends to come and pick up her car and then she asks if she can make a phone call, she wants to call her boss because at this moment he's the only one that could help her, cop says no, she'll have to wait until they get down to the station...and the water works are turned back on. I kinda wonder if she started crying when she was sitting in the police car waiting for her friend to come and pick up her car. I would be completely mortified to have to call and ask a friend to pick up my car because I'd been caught shoplifting, I know I have friends that would do it with no problem...but still, COMPLETELY mortifying in my opinion. After the policeman took her out I got to sign a form saying I was there, and then Ben showed up the video of how Lynne almost gave us away(she had gone into the fitting room to check and see what the girl had left in and when she realized that that the girl didn't bring everything out, she looked like she was landing a plane when she was trying to get Ben's attention about the girl, luckily the girl didn't look back after she walked out of the fitting room) and then I got to go back to work and close on a very boring, very slow night! I'm totally going to have to look in the "Busted" paper and see if she's in it next week or the week after he he he ^_^
Did I mention that it was the chicks 24th birthday too...Happy Birthday...you're going to jail he he he!
xoxo
T
