Why This Southern Girl is Anti-Shoplifting

When I was six years old, my grandmother, her name was Irene by the way, made me a true anti shoplifting fanatic.  How you might ask? Well, let me tell you a story………

When I was six years old there was a sewing store that Irene and I used to frequent.  Fabric and cloth stores were much more prevalent in the 1960’s and 1970’s than they are now, and they carried a variety of things that would peak your interest, like buttons.  This place had thousands of buttons in all different shapes and sizes.  You should be beginning to see where I’m going with this story.

One type of button especially caught my eye; it was pearl with a beautiful rose painted on it in pink.  Well, I decided I needed it.  But I didn’t have any money, being 6 years old and all.  So I TOOK it.  Yep, I became a shoplifter.  Well of course when sweet Irene found out, not only did I have to take it back and apologize, but I got the spanking of my life! And bam, instantly I became extremely anti shoplifting. Corporal punishment tends to make believers out of the best of us.

All kinds of people are shoplifting.  Celebrities do it mostly because their personalities lend themselves that they are convinced they will not be caught, or so psychology tells us.  To most people, getting something for nothing is like giving themselves a reward.  There is also a “high” associated with getting away with the theft.

This need to take things in American has led to the development of such anti shoplifting devices as surveillance cameras, security tags on clothing, ink tags on clothing and security guards posted on exits and entrances of department stores.

So are you wondering if I ever got my button?  As a matter of fact my grandmother bought it for me a few months later.  I still have it to this day.  I guess she figured I had learned my lesson.

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