Today while checking out at Target I witnessed a pretty trying situation.
A Muslim woman, her husband, and their 4 kids. 3 toddler boys and one infant girl in a stroller. Dad is in line behind us with the boys waiting to check out as well. Mom walks to the other side of me with the girl in the stroller. Who's with her? Oh yah, Richmond police and a handful of Target Security Guards. So I am smack in the middle of this.
Dad and Three Boys ---- ME ---- Mom, Daughter, and Ruin Your Life Brigade
So! The Police Officer is asking the Dad to please take the daughter. The Mom is saying something to the Dad and the Dad is telling the cops that the daughter can't be without her for whatever reason.
Cop says: Sir, she's going to have to learn to be without her real quick.
The Dad says something to the Mom and she puts her head down and follows the Ruin Your Life Brigade somewhere through a doorway. The children instantly start screaming for their mother and I vamoose on out of there.
Apparently she was shoplifting. Or so my cashier told me as I departed. Smooth.
Now, I don't call the Police/ Security the Ruin Your Life Brigade because I think they are bad or anything. I get they are doing their job, and that woman is ruining her own life. But why? Why is she shoplifting?
So I decided to concoct some answers in my own head.
Scenario A. The obvious/ morally hopeful one. The family is so poor that she felt like she needed to. This paints the cops as bad guys and that's usually more fun than them being the hero anyway. But it also means a lose-lose situation.
Scenario B. The boring one/ She's become addicted to stealing. Maybe her husband doesn't spoil her the way she feels is necessary. She satiates this hunger by stealing. She is a bitch.
Scenario C. My favorite/ the demented scenario. Her life is miserable and her husband is a dick. Stealing something with a high dollar amount will give her a night off in jail/ disgrace the family so much that they abandon her and she can have her life back.
What do you think happened?
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