...told to me by a (white) (retired police officer) who owns a hardware store in the city a few blocks away from my house.
Like around the beginning of last month, his wife was working alone in the store, and this agitated guy came in looking around at stuff in the aisles, and then he came up to the counter and asked her if they had pepper spray, and she didn't think so and said no, but the guy saw some up on a hook behind her and pointed it out to her and asked her to open it up for him, and at that point she knew that he was going to try to use it to rob her.
And, the (white) (retired police officer) happened to be at home and have a sixth sense around that time, so he called his wife at the store to check in on her, and she asked him to bring her a cup of coffee, and since she doesn't drink coffee, right away he knew that something was wrong, and he was like, "Don't worry, someone will be there right away," and he hung up and called some people he knew who were right there close by, and they immediately rushed on over.
And, they began to hang around and chat, and the guy kind of looked around and headed out, and they've never seen him before or since.
And, after that they closed the shop for 2 weeks, and they've decided that she'll never work alone again there.
He says he wants to move, maybe to Florida or Arizona or something, but his wife is a city girl, and she has family by them that she sees pretty much every day, so that doesn't seem like it will be happening, but still.
He says that they don't need money from the store but it's just something that they do in a property that they own, so it really doesn't hurt them to close for two weeks like that, but still.
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