As I was about to walk into the Dollar Store earlier tonight, I noticed what appeared to be grandmother, her forty-something son, and a nine-year-old child. The adults were acting a very strange. They kept looking at this kid’s scooter sitting right outside the door. I overheard the son saying, “She’s not looking” … meaning the clerk. What, did they think I was deaf, stupid, blind, or something? So I entered the store, but continued to watch them acting as if I was shopping. They kept looking into the store at the clerk. I then asked the clerk if she knew who owned the scooter outside the store. She said no. I went on telling her what I seen and overheard informing her it was so obvious these people were about to steal this scooter.
The Clerk then called over two kids asking them if they owned the scooter. One said yes. I told him he better go get it because it was about to be stolen. He immediately got this look of fear in his face as if he did not want to go outside. I said, “Let’s go. I’ll take care of this for you. You have nothing to worry about. Let’s go get your scooter.” So he followed me outside. He then took his scooter inside with him.
I stayed outside. I overheard the grandmother saying as she turned her back away from me, “Oh, no, she didn’t!” I replied, “Oh, yes I did and what are you going to do about it, thief?” I then told her I would beat up an old lady for trying to steal from a child. I stood there for a moment looking them right in their faces. Neither “adults” said a word to me. The guy kept looking at the ground. Probably because I was so very angry I would have taken on King Kong at that point. That poor child does not have a chance in life with those people as her role models. Now that I think about it. She reminds me of myself. I did not have a chance since birth and probably is the same case with this little girl. I pray God saves her from them. This is exactly what I meant about the cycle of abuse going on and on as I wrote in my article, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The cycle of abuse continues until someone in the family puts an end to it.
So here we have two people who are suppose to be adults showing a child it is okay to steal from another child. UNBELIEVEABLE! I should have smashed both their faces in to teach the child this is what happens when you steal from a child. It could have been a good lesson for her since I am sure the child has seen much worse, but I could not allow myself to act in violence in front of a child. Hopefully, by the way I handled the situation it will stick with her for the rest of her life as a lesson that stealing is wrong, but I highly doubt it having to live with people like that. I think I handled it quite well if I do not say so myself.
I went back into the store. The clerk said, “Good job!” I then approached the boy saying to him, “I bet you would have gotten into a lot of trouble tonight if you went home without that scooter.” He said, “Oh, yeah. Thank you so much for looking after me.” I replied, “No problem, no one deserves to be stolen from especially as child.”
As I was shopping, I ran into the clerk again who was unloading some boxes. I said to her, “I bet you’ll never forget me, will you? She laughed so hard saying, “No, I won’t. That was so awesome!”
The strange thing is I was not going to stop at the store. I was thinking ... I can get what I need another day. But something made me stop. I feel it was God. He made me stop to help that child from getting his scooter stolen. They say the closer you get to God, the more the Devil tries to pull you away from God. Well, I married two devils and they lost against me ... so I am not going to allow the real Devil to ever take my faith and trust in God away from me not matter.
