When I was 18 back in 2010 I started petty crimes like stealing food from stores and gas stations. Walk into a kangaroo or any service station slyly pocket 3 bags of candy and two drinks and walk out. Hit up 24 hour Walmarts and lift things I needed.
Clothing stores I cleaned up on shirts, socks, draws and everything. I carryed a wire cutter for the security tags went in dressing room popped them wore the shirts as pants under my real pants could get 5-6 polos and deposit tags under some display clothes leaving the store with a grin.
Worked at Subway and started fake ringing my stuff up. Ex: 3 cookies is a dollar something I pretend to pay with $20
lol only had $1 on me) so I push 20 on the register pocket the 18 sum and change and only put the $1 in the register. Graduated to punching $50 then $100.
Was hungry for something riskier/more so I started peeping the midday cash pulls being made seeing odd amounts like 160, 360, 250 being taken and put in an envelope and placed in a safe hidden somewhere in the back.
Used to pretend to get something from the back and go fool with the safe which was unlocked swiped an envelope waited till I got home was like damn $300 in $20 was like [emoji]128563[/emoji], and the cycle continued in the 4 months (bringing in $6000) until i finally got caught on hidden office corner camera the last lick i hit which was $400.
Got called in the back office after my shift on a rainy gloomy day a week before Christmas and asked did I understand and know what was going on? I was like somewhat boss replyed we have footage for you to see.
To see yourself on camera committing a crime was a rock bottom moment I was caught red handed had to wait for the cops to come to arrest me first time in a cop car, first time in jail, first time in a holding cell for 5 hours distraught AF first major L ever.
By the grace of God he didn't press charges because he and my dad were friends and that was how I got the job. Dad took it really bad didn't speak to me or acknowledge me for months basically disowned me.
Was fired obviously, had to come back on a busy day three days before Christmas for the walk of shame to pay back what I took on camera which $460, forfeited my last paycheck & the rest missing was the stores loss. Messed up the Christmas mood in the whole house. My guilt was bad turned down gifts and everything. Was jobless 4 months into 2011 before getting another job at the movies and getting caught up in a stealing ring smh months in and quit that December.......I never could be comfortable working with other people ever again because of situations like that.
So I've working by myself as a groundskeeper where I live currently (I live where I work, and work where I live) for 3 years now getting ready for the Navy in March.
Moral is NEVER STEAL EVER.
I Lost my integrity, self respect, family's respect, everything that memories haunt me for life......sorry for the long post
andretti
