Martin Rascon
Janel
WRT 101S
11 October 2019
Personal Narrative
It was summer break of my sophomore year going to junior year. I was with my friends and we had nothing to do, so we went to the mall. After walking around the mall for a couple hours we were bored so we decided to go to one last store, Dillards. After walking around the whole 2-story store we headed to the Polo Ralph Lauren clothing section which was the brand I liked and wore the most; one of my favorite clothing brands to this day. After looking at the selection for a good while one of my friends had told me that they would shoplift from this store since there’s never anyone working in this section. They also said that it’s super easy because the doors to leave is only a couple feet away from this section. The other friend I was with didn’t want to not because he knew it was wrong but he had already stole something from a different store.
After I had been looking at what I wanted I stuck with two regular Polo t-shirts. I had told my friends to get away from me to make it less suspicious. So after a couple minutes went by and no worker was to be seen I grabbed the shirts and put them in my pants. My friends saw me from a distance and after I gave them the signal to leave they walked out the door first. I’m walking towards the door and after I turn the corner to walk to my friends car a big built man with black sunglasses slammed me against the wall and told me, “Let’s go back inside.” I was super confused but as he grabbed me by my shirt with a death grip and took me inside it all became obvious; he was a secret shopper and security for the store. As we walked into the security room my friends were nowhere to be found and I thought to myself that I was so screwed. There were 2 security officials in the room and they began questioning me. I began to lie because I didn’t want them to know the real me. They snatched my phone from my hand were reading the notifications. That kind of ticked me off because they have no authority to do that so my attitude changed entirely.
I figured my friends were texting in the groupchat and worried about because my phone was blowing up with so many text and call notifications. They began to ask me who was in the groupchat and who I had come to the mall with. I just kept my mouth shut. They called in the mall officer and he began to ask for my information, I answered his questions because he actually had the authority to ask me questions. And after giving him all my information he handcuffed me and took me to the nearest precinct where I had to wait for my mother to pick me up. The worst part was that I had to call her which made me feel 10x worse. The whole time I was in the holding cell I was just thinking, “What are my parents gonna do?” 45 minutes go by and my mom arrives to pick me up where the officials are explaining to her what had happened and what is going to happen since I had gotten arrested. I had disappointed her a lot to the point where she started crying. After the officers had given her the paperwork we were walking out to her car. As we were a couple feet away from the car my mom asks for my phone where she then puts it behind the wheel and runs it over.
The car ride home felt so long and since I was in big trouble I had to think of something to do to keep myself busy during the rest of summer. My mom was scolding me the whole ride home and I don’t blame her. If I could redo that day I definitely would. I felt so bad not even because my mom would have to pay for the costs but I had let her down; that was the worst feeling ever. My mom is the lenient parent and I felt so bad disappointing her how I did. When we arrived at home the first thing my mom did was unplug my game console, my TV and take my car keys away. My dad was working at the time and I was nervous to see what his punishment was going to be; my mom told me that my dad wanted us to go eat at the restaurant where was working so I was sure that he already knew what was happening.
After spending the next couple of hours in my room cleaning and organizing everything because I didn’t have anything else to keep me busy. My mom came to my room and we began to talk about the situation and what I was going to have to do to get it off my record. I needed to write an apology letter, do an online shoplifting program and do at least 10 hours of community service. I immediately apologized to my mom for putting her through this and I told her that she didn’t deserve this and her and my dad had raised me better. She then began to tell me that this should be a lesson not always will I get away with things. At the time I was 16 so after I did what I had to do It would get off my record.
My mom told me to get ready to go to my dads work. When we arrived he began to talk to me and he didn’t seem mad he told me he was just mad that I put my mom through that and that I disappointed her. After we ate an entree we paid the bill and went home. After the next couple months of me being grounded and I finished my community service and the online program I went to see my parole officer where she asked me questions if I would do it again and if I learned my lesson and of course I said yes.
In conclusion, what I did was not worth it at all because disappointing your parents is the worst feeling. Losing your parents trust and trying to earn it back was very difficult for me. That is why I immediately got a job and paid my mom back for all the costs. Now that I am making my own money I don’t have to steal and break any laws those days were over for me.
WRT 101S 