From The Past: March 16, 2007

Yesterday, while shopping in Wal-Mart, we had made it down to the ketchup aisle when I looked on my list and saw that I had missed the pork n’ beans. I left Kevin and made my way back to where I thought the beans were. As I turned up that aisle, there was an old man standing by some canned goods. He looked to be in his late 70’s. He was wearing a ball cap and a jean jacket with big pockets in the front. As I looked at him, he was placing a can in his pocket. We made eye contact. I continued down the aisle, discovering that I had actually found the dried beans, not the canned beans. When I walked back up the aisle, he was placing another can in his other pocket.

I told Kevin what I had seen and he asked, “What are you going to do, report him? Maybe he was using his pockets to hold the cans until he got to the register because he didn’t have a buggy.”

My response to that was, “Oh, Wal-Mart is letting people do that now – put things in their pockets until they check-out?”

He got my point.

I did not report the old man because maybe he really was using his pockets to hold the cans.

So, now I am wondering, had you seen the exact same thing, would you have reported him?