Why am I feeling so bad about doing the right thing?
Author: The Blonde Diaries / Category: fashionAfter spending all day Friday driving around Houston dealing with wedding vendors, my mother and I decided to have some fun and hit the new outlet mall up in Cypress, Texas. So off we went Saturday morning and everything was going well. Until I hit a designer jean store and saw a girl squat down behind a rack of jeans and rip the sensor off a pair of jeans, discard the broken sensor into a pile of jeans on the shelf and roll the jeans into her Gucci bag. Oh yes, I was standing nearby the whole time looking at the jeans on the shelf and saw it with my own two eyes and was just shocked.
I wasn’t quite sure what to do. Do I say something to her so that she knows someone saw her? Do I say something to a store worker? Do I keep my trap shut and say nothing? Well, choice 1 didn’t seem logical because if she would do this in the middle of a small store she wouldn’t give a flip and it could get ugly. Choice 3 wasn’t too good either because I would kick myself the rest of the day for allowing this chick who was probably in her early 20s to steal these jeans (True Religion – $300 retail, $200 outlet mall). So my gut said to go with choice #2. I made my way to the front of the store and found a girl at the checkout counter who wasn’t busy to explain what I saw and to point the girl out from the distance. She in turn went to the store security guard and relayed what I told her to him and I walked out because I didn’t want to be around. I’m not sure what happened but I was glad that I at least spoke up and told someone what I saw.
So I have continued to be bothered with this since yesterday. Almost guilty for saying something to the store but heck the girl was stealing and I would feel guilty for not saying anything. So maybe I am just disappointed that I actually saw theft taking place. I like to think that people are good and don’t steal but that was shattered yesterday when I saw it with my own two eyes. Maybe that is what I’m feeling and not guilt.
Has this happened to you? What would you have done? Is it guilt I’m feeling or something else?
August 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
You certainly did the right thing. Too many people are complacent today, indifferent to the feelings of others. What you did proves that there are those who care.
Think of it this way, too. Security cameras might have had a watchful eye on that woman, following her all around the store. Your words to the clerk only made you honest in those eyes.
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August 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Thanks Dave. It’s so weird to do the right thing and then feel as if you did something wrong. I can honestly say that I am glad I did what I did and would do it again if I were to go back to that situation yesterday.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Yup. you did the right thing. She was stealing.don’t be too hard on yourself.
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