Snowball

Someone I know embezzeled $50,000 from her employer. Isn't that amazing? Do you know how she did it? She started small by borrowing $20 at a time for things like cab rides and Fed Exing her demos to record companies. She would put it back and then do it again and then put it back and then do it again. Eventually she started taking money out of other office accounts to put into the checking account that she was pilfering from. It kind of snowballed out of control. It took 2 years or so for her boss to notice. Her boss went to get some money out of the office account to pay a plumber and a check for $300 bounced because she was overdrawn on an account that she used to have $10,000 in it. When she checked the savings account she found out exactly how much was missing and fired the thief. How crazy is that? I didn't know shit like this actually happened to people I know.
I
stole gum once. And when I was 8 I tried to steal a jar of apple sauce and got caught by the supermarket cop. He took me by the arm and marched me over to my grandfather who was sorting his way through those bins of hard candy they used to have at the supermarket looking for the root beer flavor. My grandfather thought it was pretty funny, which I thought meant he understood and wouldn't tell my mom. I was very wrong.

The woman I know who stole all the money made her boss feel guilty when she got caught. She doesn't believe she did it. She thinks it's some kind of mistake. I wonder how I would feel if I did something like that. How bad does something have to be that you've done where you truly don't believe it happened? Now she has no job and she owes someone $50,000 and she keeps talking about how her dogs are going to starve because she's divorced and unemployed. It's pretty freaking crazy.