…woman didn\u2019t steal anything. I accidentally dropped a makeup item into her shopping bag while I was in line behind her.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone went quiet. The woman looked completely stunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teen held up a small mascara tube. \u201cIt slipped out of my hand when I was grabbing my wallet, and I didn\u2019t even notice until just now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Security checked the receipt, confirmed the woman only paid for the skirt, and scanned the mascara. The alarm beeped again \u2014 it was the missing item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poor woman was nearly in tears, thanking the teen over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She looked so embarrassed \u2014 but more than that, relieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll never forget how quick that teen was to speak up. It was such a small gesture, but it changed everything in that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Never assume the worst about someone \u2014 you never know what they\u2019re carrying, or what they\u2019ve already been through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …woman didn\u2019t steal anything. I accidentally dropped a makeup item into her shopping bag while I was in line behind her.” Everyone went quiet. The woman looked… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}