Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Esther Likes To Steal

Esther make look innocent, but she is a thief!

Esther began stealing with another friend that we had. They specialized in stealing clothes and underwear from deparment stores. They liked to steal expensive underwear by trying them on in the dressing rooms, laying on like 3 bras, then walking out. Pretty easy actually. I think her freind got caught once, but Esther never did and this may be why it lead to more stealing.

Eventually, the items that were being stolen became more expensive. To do this, she transitioned from stealing from department stores to stealing from employers. At one point she worked at a Korean cell phone store. She stole phones from there and even gave one to me as a gift, so sweet!

For some reason, I was not involved in the stealing. I usually just heard about it from Dale or her other friend about it after the fact. Dale and Esther were like partners in crime who planned stealing sprees together and then spend some of the money on me. I always wondered how they had so much money and was happy to have such generous friends, but eventually I figured it out.

I think the most extravegant plan to perpetually steal from an employeer on a steady basis was also planned with Dale. This began when Dale got us a job working in a really strange situation. There was a man that he knew through the Boy Scouts that sold rare coins from his basement. The basement was full of rare coins, bills, and $1,000 bags of quarters. Our job was to take the coins in the bag and roll them into $10 rolls of quarters. It was a job that we did after school. Eveyday, the 3 of us would go to the basement and start washing and rolling coins for hours. It was almost like slave labor in an old dingy basement with a fat old white man watching us and not doing much else. After a while, the old white man became more trusting and left us alone with his stash of money. The basement was very interesting as it had Nazi coins, double-sided coins, old dollar bills, gold coins, and other rare items.

This is what tha bags of quaters looked like.
The point of the story is that we started stealing on a regular bases. It started off with stuffing the $10 rolls in our shoes or clothes. However, Dale and Esther planned a scheme that was even more of a cash cow. After Dale and Esther began living an extravegant life of highschool students, they finally told me that they had been stealing even more than I had imagined.

There plan was that they brought luch to work in a large cooler. They would fit one of the $1,000 bags in the cooler and walk out at the end of the day. The money bags were heavy and piled under our desk - probably about 20 bags at a time. The owner was so unorganized that there was no inventory system so he never noticed. I am not sure how many bags they stole, but they never got caught and it was actually very easy, especially because they seemed so innocent.