It’s Real Low Using Your Toddler Like That

One night, I had a very nice family come to the register: a mother, a daughter, a maybe five-year-old, and a toddler the mother was holding. I told them to give me a second because I had to show my boss something down the aisle (in view of the register).

I came back and cashed them out, and I noticed that the package of birthday balloons they had placed at the end of my belt was missing, and in its place was an empty package for skull caps.

My manager went and watched the cameras. He came back laughing. Apparently, in the thirty seconds I was gone, the mother ditched the empty package that she had hiding under the toddler and shoved the balloons in her purse. They paid for everything else and were really nice, which is why he was laughing. The total of what they stole versus what they paid? They stole $4.75, but they paid for $50 worth of stuff.

Never assume a wholesome family is just a nice, innocent customer.