Well, I didn't get a day off this last weekend, but David tells me maybe this coming weekend he'll whisk (wisk?) the kids away.

Friday night, I was desperate to get out of the house (that, and we needed groceries), so I went to Meijer. At just about the beginning of my trek, I headed towards the health & beauty department, holding a ton of coupons in my hand. I went to look at the protein drinks because I had a coupon for some Ensure. As I was standing there deciding whether or not to spend my money on them, I overheard two employees talking about a customer who had taken a bottle of vitamins off the shelf, opened it and then gave one to "a kid". This lady supposedly then put the bottle back on the shelf, and proceeded to grab another one. The two employees were busy grabbing bottles to see if they could find the ones that had been opened, since obviously the one(s) in question had been tampered with.

About a half hour later, I came back to the same section of the store, because I wanted to see how much a particular brand of lotion was (something I had a coupon for, as well). I looked to see someone (a woman) grabbing what seemed to be totally random bottles off the shelves, opening them up, and then putting them back. I looked to see if she was wearing a badge, hoping maybe it was another employee looking for "evidence". But I saw nothing of the sort. I felt like I was witnessing a crime, after everything I'd heard the two employees talking about earlier. I tried to act like I wasn't watching her, and tried to go about my shopping. Well, the lady went to another isle, and started doing the same thing. I looked to see if I could find somebody who worked in that department, but couldn't. About this time, the suspicious-looking lady took off towards the greeting card department. Pretending (perhaps somewhat badly at this point) to coincidentally be going that way myself, I took note that she was now laying her entire body up against the card display. It just looked bizarre. She looked like she was reading a card, except that her face was literally right on the card itself.

So I walked right up to the pharmacy and motioned for one of the men behind the counter to come over. I mentioned that I had seen someone opening up bottles in a pretty random pattern, and that I'd heard about the problem they'd had earlier, if somebody wanted to know what the lady looked like, etc. He thanked me, and then I proceeded to find one of the women employees I'd overheard earlier, so I let her know what was happening as well. Almost as soon as she was done helpling a customer, I saw the same person I'd been telling them about, walk right in front of the pharmacy- and then right into the back of the store, basically like she worked there. Of course I was totally confused, and at that point, both the employee and the man from the pharmacy were telling me that this person was really an undercover security guard, and she was supposed to look like she was shopping.

What might have been even more bizarre is that they wanted to know why I thought this woman looked suspicious? (First off, she did not look like she was shopping. Guard or not, most people don't just randomly pick up sealed bottles, open them up, then put them back wherever the hell they feel like it. Secondly, most people don't run around the corner to the greeting card department, and practically lay themselves down on the displays). I just told them that based on what I'd heard before, and then seen, of course I would have thought this behavior was odd- but that obviously I'd been mistaken. At that point, they wanted me to show them which bottles were opened- Uh, I wasn't around for the original "nut" opening bottles. Leave me alone! LOL