I immediately thought of a time when I was working at a bookstore, a children’s bookstore, and a teacher had called and ordered tons of books. I put them into two, big shopping bags with handles, ready for her to come and pick them up. I set them right inside the back office.
It was a hot day, so I opened the back door to the store, and I was the only one working that day. A guy came by on a bicycle down the back sidewalk. He must have just seen shopping bags and thought, “Ha-ha.” He grabbed the bags but had no idea that they were weighted with tons of books.
He’s on his bicycle, teetering, trying to get away, speed away, stealing the books. I ran out the door, ran after him, and I’m like, “Stop! Those are our books! Those are our books! You can’t have them!” Luckily, because he couldn’t really go very fast, and he knew he was gonna get caught, he dropped all the books. We never did catch him, but all the books were rescued, and we got them back.