This man stopped me

Grrrrrr ... I so wanted to go for my walk yesterday and this man stopped me!!!

Straight after I finished my update yesterday, being a beautiful sunny day I thought I take the opportunity to stroll down the beach. As I walked out the front of the shop I saw friends of mine and asked them if they wanted to come.

"sure" they said, but they needed to get a bit of stuff done first so would meet me back here in a few hours then we'd all go. "ok" I agreed and went to fill in a couple of hours first.

My cousin popped in for a brief visit not long after, grabbed an icecream and left. Then a few minutes later he came up to the house (where both Bill and I were, with staff in the shop) and said he just saw a guy stuffing some things in his pocket and walk out of the shop. So Bill set off to get him. After my cousin identified the guy across the road Bill went straight up to him and told him he was seen stealing something, to come back to the shop. The guy refused, denying it (as expected) so Bill said "well, we can either call the cops here, or come back to the shop and call the cops there" to which the guy calmly followed Bill back to the shop. As Bill was coming around the counter to get the phone book the guy took off to the back of the shop, stashing his stolen goods. What he didn't realise is we have cameras in the shop and one of them happened to be right above him when he stole what he did, so there was no denying it.

Anyway Bill stood guard over him, while I served over the counter (staff were finishing then) until the cops came. So we waited, and waited, and waited, and waited!! We made phone call after phone call asking how long they would be. Each time they said they'd be 20mins, 5mins, 15mins, 30mins ... and so on. And this guy just stood there staring at the wall, in one spot, just stood there .... for 3 hours!!!! All 3 of us just waited. The guy never spoke, never moved, just stood there staring at the wall for 3 bloody hours!!! lol

He refused to give his name or ID. It got to the stage we were ready to close the shop and the cops still weren't here. So we gave up, took a photo of him (I've blurred it for my blog as I didn't know how I stood legally to put his photo on here) and sent him away.

I was so annoyed at the police for not turning up. I know it was only Petty theft but by stopping theft at this stage may mean stopping it before it turns to bigger stuff. And it's not the first time I've heard of police not turning up. I know they're under staffed and all that shit ... but please ... over 3hrs???

So after locking and alarming the shop we sat down to dinner and half way through dinner ..... werrrowerrrowerrro!!!! The alarm went off .... I shit myself! (well not literally) The guys back to get revenge, I thought! Bill cautiously went down to check the shop, opened the door to see the stupid CAT run through the door .... DAMN CAT!!! What a night to choose to be stuck in the shop!!! lol

So I wasted my whole afternoon off and never got my walk in. Hence why I have my walking shoes on now ... I'm off before any more shoplifters can stop me ... see ya!!!

LATER ...

Man, I am soooo ANGRY!!!!

Just had a girl put some smokes on 'tick', promising she'd be back at 9am tomorrow morning to pay for them. Normally we don't have 'tick', but somehow she got to me and I gave in. Given that I knew she worked just down the road and she gave me a big sob story how her pay didn't go through till tonight.

Then not 2mins after she left her boss came to see me, worried that I had given her something on 'tick'. I told her regretably that I had. And she she "ohh nooo, you may not ever see your money. She has things on tick all over town and no one sees their money. We've been trying to get rid of her for ages, she's real bad news."

Why do I give in to people?? We have a policy no 'tick' to general public and I'm scared to tell Bill what I did. Man today is just NOT MY DAY!!! I feel like I have a banner on my forehead "RIP ME OFF"

On a slightly more positive note ... I did get out for my walk today, 45mins. And half an hour after I got back the weather packed in. So I guess that's something. Sheesh I hope the day gets better.