My view of the world

We had a guy come into our shop today while I was out. He was tall, skinny and drunk, after telling one of the girls what he wanted, he wandered over and standing in plain sight, he picked up the item and put it under his shirt.
The clerk told him to put it down and he responded with “go f*** yourself”, he then calmly walked out, this really pissed her off.
In the mean time, the first clerk was calling another clerk’s name, like that person was actually going to do something.
The second clerk is about 5ft nothing and about as agressive as the average mouse. What’s she gonna do? Run out and bite him on the ankles.
Panic is fun to watch.

After the guy left, they called the owner and told him we’d been “robbed”, but after a minute or so they told him that it’d been a shoplifter and he called the location, where we were installing software and told us what had happened.
I took my time driving back, after all, it was just a shoplifter, and the odds on someone like that coming back, especially in his condition, he probably couldn’t remember where the place was, are slim at best.
By the time I got here the girls were still exited, but calmer.
I was fine until they told me that the first clerk was yelling for someone who would have a hard time punching any higher than the guy’s knees.
It only took me about 15min to quit laughing.
And, at the end of the day, the guy stole a piece of equipment that was valuable, 2 or 3 years ago, but these days its a paperweight, if he comes back I’m going to make him take the rest of the junk.