LateNites

One nite at 2 a.m. exactly, I locked the beer coolers. A young guy comes in and heads straight for the coolers where I am standing. He tries to open it, so I say "They automatically lock at 2 a.m.". The kid leaves, I follow him to the door and notice the license plate of his "Escort" is covered by a bandana...
HMMMMMMM....wonder what he had in MIND ???

This other time I was in the cooler taking inventory when I heard the 'ding-dong', a chime that goes off in the cooler when someone comes in the door. Well, I come outta the cooler in time to see a guy in a Taco Bell uniform running outta the store. He gets into a car that is backed up infront of the store. Well I had a pen and a piece of paper in my hand from taking inventory, so I wrote down the license plate ! Then I looked around and only figured he had taken some cases of beer we had right by the front door. I come around the counter to pick up the phone, and as I turn around I see half the counter and all the clear boxes that we had instant lottery tickets in had been ripped out. These boxes were bolted into the counter, so he actually took the counter top with him too........

That's not the best part, 2 weeks or so later, the other nite shift lady was in the cooler and heard the 'ding-dong', came out and seen someone running, went to the front door, took the licensce plate of the car, looked back 2 weeks were I had wrote the plate down....AND IT WAS THE SAME ONE.....except I had wrote C and it was G.

And my big "Hold Up" story happened one nite. I had noticed a man walking thru the parking lot going towards the gas station. Then the man came into my store and asked if we had some crazy kind of cheese. I said no, and he left. Well, around 4 or 5 am. The man comes back in while I am out on the floor filling stock or something. He gets a pop from the self serve then comes to the counter. I go to the register, ring him up, he puts the money and the drink on the counter, and when the register opened up he reached over a cigarette displayer and into the register........AS I AM TRYING TO SLAM THE DRAWER SHUT, OVER AND OVER, AND OVER.
So, I am slamming the drawer with my hip, while pushing the panic button, and the man is trying to either get away or get the 20's out.
So he runs away, a customer comes in sees what's happening runs after him. Then all the cops in the city emerge on the store since we were their hangout. I even had "my favorite state cop" and his partner turn around on 94 when they heard the call about my store. They had JUST left before the man came in. Then I went thru all the rigamaroll. And got to leave early that day...
The next day the cops caught the guy robbing another store. And when they arrested him he had some pretty nasty, busted knuckles.

THE KICKER TO THIS STORY IS..............I HAD ALREADY GIVEN MY 2 WEEKS NOTICE, THEN I GOT ROBBED. SO I JUST QUIT.