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Date Posted: 11:48:11 03/06/06 Mon
Author: tg
Subject: Re: WW(you)D
In reply to: lump 's message, "WW(you)D" on 09:16:43 03/06/06 Mon

I am not making excuses for the child. I still don't think she was stealing.

If there were alot of people there maybe her parents didn't notice, but I would have asked my child where she/he got the chips and soda. Only, maybe they did and she told them it was given to her. It sounds like kids were running loose everywhere.

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[> Re: WW(you)D -- chrys, 12:05:30 03/06/06 Mon [1]

i'm with tg here, and esp on that last comment, that sometimes kids have trouble communicating, i think that's especially true if they are embarrassed about not having money. i can't say i really know b/c i always went to school in a relatively affluent (or pretending to be affluent) neighborhood and there weren't very many poor families there, but i also thought of, what if she didn't have anything else to eat. also sometimes parents won't give their kids money even if they have it, esp. if they don't have much. but i think a little talk with her might have been appropriate, like sitting down and saying, okay it is better to be honest and say you don't have the money and ask for something, than it is to try to just take it. my guess is she was probably ashamed of not having the $.

i once lived with someone who had a kid and would hardly ever get the kid food. it was awful. i was also poor and couldn't really help, and so was the ohter person we lived with, but that is why i said sometimes the parents don't spend the little money they have on their children, b/c it's true.

also don't think you had to buy it for her, that is not your job, neither is the talk really, but i don't think it would have killed the PTA to give a kid a bag of chips, or to have someone who is maybe more involved talk to her and maybe try to find out more about the situation in general.

as for the diaper thing, i would have let that go too. diapers are a necessity.. it would be one thing if it was CDs or a TV or expensive clothes, but diapers, well okay.

also, i used to work at a dept store awhile ago, and they had this "yes" policy. it had some flashy gimmicky name but i forgot what it was. anyway, there policy was that if someone came to customer service to return something, they would always say yes, even if the person didn't have a receipt or whatever the case may be (unless it was extreme like the same person coming in every week w/a buttload of clothes). they knew they could lose money doing that, BUT they were keeping the customer. that customer instead of feeling possibly turned away unfairly, would be encouraged that this was a place that would help you and would be left w/a good impression. yes some took advantage of that i'm sure, but when i worked there, in 02, while most stores in the same vein weren't upping their yearly profits, this one was, and they were one of the only chains that was.

i used to let ppl sneak in the movie theater i worked for, mostly b/c that place was so corrupt and the prices they charged were like highway robbery, lol.

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