During my Wal-Mart career I have seen much theft from both employees and shoppers, but never have I actually been so disgusted with it as I was today. I am not sure who I was more angry at. The woman, myself (for not catching her earlier), or at Wal-Mart for not having better security.
So I go into the bathroom and I notice a 2 year old in a cart in the women's bathroom. First thought----That is kind of dangerous someone could take your child. What a stupid thing to do. I go to the bathroom, I hear some plastic and stuff and I am thinking that she is doing her thing or whatever. I notice that she is taking a very long time and yet all I can really think about is that her child has been by herself for a very long time and why couldn't she have taken the child in the stall with her.... (She was in the handicapped stall.) Still it hasn't really clicked yet. The child starts sceaming while I am washing my hands and the entire time I am thinking--- "What is taking that woman so long, she is being a horrible parent." I almost went up and comforted the poor kid, but she was scared to death and I didn't want the mom to think that I was a freak or anything, I did stop the little girl from climbing out of the cart though... I noticed that the cart had nothing in it. I thought that was strange once again. It is commonly known that you are supposed to leave your cart outside of the restrooms. It didn't bother me though, since we were the only people in there. So her child starts screaming, and I walked out to get Chris to go on our break. It took us forever and about five minutes later we walked passed the bathroom and the little girl was still screaming. The mom keeps pleading with her kid telling her that everything is ok (The little girls name started with a B, but I can't remember exactly what it was.) It didn't click until one of the third shift guys brought out the trash and in it were about 10-15 DVDs. A bunch of Children's ones (Like Dora) and random other ones. I was so upset. That woman. I knew it had to be her. It all clicked. The empty cart, the Child in it, how long she took, the pastic crinkling. Yeah I felt pretty stupid. No wonder why we have horrible things happen in schools today. We have horrible parents raising them!!