I had a HORRIBLE day today, to cap off a pretty crappy week. An even scarier thought it that the week isn't even over yet. What next?
At around 11:30 this morning the men I was waiting on, robbed the store. I was never so scared in my entire life. It was a "smash and grab", where they smashed the case and grabbed the jewelry. Thank god, I or the others were not hurt physically. Emotionally, I am pretty F'D up right now. I had a bad feeling about them, and trusted my instincts. My employee had the same feeling and positioned herself by the phone. As soon as she saw something going down, she called 911.
I was behind the glass case and they were in front of the case, as is usual. I saw one reach in his pocket and pull something out. It was shiny and I thought it was a gun, and I turned and RAN into the back room and slammed the door. I saw Mary Ann was already on the phone calling 9-1-1. In reality it was an awl and they were smashing the case and grabbing the stuff.
I was rather hysterical - shaking and crying. I couldn't stop shaking. I admit, now 8+ hours later, I am still shaky. I feel like I have had the wind knocked out of me.
The Aurora PD was on it really quick and they caught the "suspects". Please pray they plead guilty. The last thing I want to do is testify in a trial and have to look them in the face ever again. They tossed some of the jewelry before getting caught, but they had some on them when caught, they are on video-tape and they left blood on some glass in the case. There were also a lot of people that saw them run out of the store and our UPS driver almost ran them over. Too bad almost only counts in horseshoes.
I am tired. Really, really tired. When does all the insanity end. When do things start to go my way? This has been a crappy year - the fire, Pfaltzgraff, the closing of this store and now this. Anyone wanna take a couple of punches?
Until next time...goodnight
5 comments:
I'm glad both you and Maryann are ok, physically at least... i'm shaky about it and i wasn't even there when it happened. ya, it has been a pretty crappy week, and i hope nothing else goes wrong
Sleep evades me. I keep picturing the evil eyes looking at me and the shiny object coming at me. I don't know if I can go back there tomorrow. If I didn't turn and run, would I have gotten covered in glass shards? If it was a gun, might I have gotten shot in the back?
The bastards were on parole already. What a great system we have. I have to go to the Police dept. and ID photos. At least I do not have to face them at this point. Hopefully never, since they were on parole violations, in possession of criminal tools and evading a police officer - in addition to felony theft.
I'm so sorry Maureen. How awful for you to go through that, and to know they're on out on bail already. I hope you're feeling a bit better today... it's really healthy to talk about it for a while.
Thanks Yaakova. Actually, they are not out on bail for this offense. They were on parole for previous criminal acts. I was told by the detective that I did not want to know what they had done to have been in jail before. They are in jail, on the way to the pen, most likely - hopefully. I am going to write a post about what I had to do today.
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