I’m slightly disappointed lol

I had this idea of giving her a gift card that had written on the envelope “thanks for the cheese, little mouse”, but now I’m so unsure.

Thanks for joining me on this trip lol

She just sat down and ate the food and then gave me some and went about her day. And the thing was, is she was WILLING to pay the first time!!
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What still baffles me is WHY she came over to give me the cheese since it was stolen. If I had stolen food (which I wouldn’t), I wouldn’t be sharing it. I’d be throwing it out as quick as possible to not have any evidence. I also wouldn’t be telling people where I worked if I just stole!!
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Also found out after she walked out the door, she had sat down with someone and ate at the tables somewhere behind me, so she didn’t even try to leave the “scene of the crime”.
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Someone at the back register came back, but the cheese girl walked pasted and right out the back door.

She never paid for her things.

And now she’ll probably be “no trespassed” from the store.

Ugh….
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We spotted her immediately. She had her stuff at the back register, by the mall entrance, but no one was there. An emptied told her to go to a front register. We saw her go to the front, go around the only register open, grab a box, and not get in line.
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First, we checked receipts to kinda time stamp it to check cameras. Oddly enough, we couldn’t find a single receipt that had blue cheese and the chips she got.

I told my manager around the time she gave me the cheese, so we went to check the cameras.
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Cut to 3 hours later…

I told one of the Assistant Mangers who is also my friend about the cheese girl and she got so excited and wanted to see what she looked like. As a grocery store, we have cameras and can also check receipts.
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I still don’t understand what happened other than I got random cheese but I don’t know WHY I got random cheese? She didn’t even tell me her name, just gave me cheese.

I had a few people and some Reddit users tell me she was flirting lol.
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Lo and behold, there’s the shop, and there she is behind the counter.

Lunch is now over and I’m STILL confused.
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I’m so flabbergasted by what just happened that, after a few minutes, I can’t even read my book any more and have to go see where this dessert shop is (I haven’t wandered the mall in a while).
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Finally she gives me the cheese and I said thank you and she said she works at the dessert shop down by the food court (my job is in a mall. It’s a health food grocery store), then turns away and leaves.
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She then struggles to give me a slice of blue cheese we sell at my job. It keeps crumbling and she seems to be getting nervous at not being able to give me the slice and she says “I’m trying to be cool here”. I just laugh and say she’s good.
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She smiles at me and says “Do you want some cheese for your crackers?”

My first thought is “I don’t have crackers?”, but I said yes cuz clearly she wanted to share and I didn’t wanna be rude. I could tell from her other items she had just shopped at my job.
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I have no idea who this woman is. She doesn’t work at my job. I’ve never seen her before. So I’m already on alert.

She’s a young woman, probably in her 20s somewhere. She’s had a shoulder bag with a labubu on it and a stuffed ice cream cone.
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Had the strangest interaction today and I just needed to share it cuz MY mind is running 100 miles a minute asking “why?”.

I’m at lunch, in the FARTHEST corner I can possibly be, trying to be invisible, when this woman suddenly stop at my table.
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