“So this teenage kid approaches Delia Watson while she’s browsing and asks if he can help her. According to Miss Delia, she recognized he was ‘trying to case her,’” Ethan emphasized with air quotes, “and told him in no uncertain terms, ‘No you may not.’ So she goes on to browse. A little while later, somebody starts shrieking ‘Stop him! He’s got my wallet!’ Some quick thinking employee locks the front door so nobody can leave, and the entire store gets in on this whole game of chase trying to stop the thief.”
“Even though there are laws about locking the doors during business hours,” Judd observed.
“That’s what I said. Anyway, Miss Delia and Miss Betty go on and keep browsing, as this whole insanity takes a while, right? And then she sees him out of the corner of her eye coming up her a
