Is Mary Jane a thief or what? June 3, 1985
I told Mary Jane about the change of locks a week or so ago.
Safire had them changed and never gave Mary Jane the key.
This was before the break-in on Saturday, and it really
pissed Mary Jane off have Safire accuse her of stealing.
For all the time Mary Jane worked at Fotomat not one red
cent was ever missing. She would never have kept her job had Bob believed any
of the rumors.
If she was a thief, she would have found a way to get her
pictures out of the Clifton store, pictures she can’t yet afford to pay for,
revealing pictures people believe make her nervous.
Why not just steal those? They would be harder to keep track
of than missing cash.
Some believe the friction between Mary Jane and Safire comes
as a result of how bossy Safire can be, and Mary Jane stubborn, and having them
worked at the same store is bound to lead to friction.
Mary Jane is also a notorious flirt and is extremely popular
with the Hackensack police. Safire is a former stripper who prides herself on
her efficiency.
The two of them actually started out the best of friends,
with Mary Jane spending time with Safire and her husband. Perhaps Mary flirted
with him, too. Rumors suggested she did more than flirt. Mary Jane had a
reputation of that kind around town. After a while, Safire started calling her
a thief.
Safire doesn’t love her husband. He beats the crap out of
her. But what is hers is hers, and she apparently told Mary Jane to keep her
hands off him.
Mary Jane, however, told me that more than once Safire
called her on Sundays begging for her to give Safire an alibi.
“She told me to tell her husband she was with me,” Mary Jane
claimed.
But there was also the incident at the booth when “a friend”
of Mary Jane’s came to the booth and confused Safire for Mary Jane and hit on
her.
“I told him flat out that I wasn’t Mary Jane,” Safire told
me later. “That really startled him.”
But he hadn’t come to the booth to make love, he had come to
make change, he claimed, asking Safire to give him change for a ten, and when
she gave him two fives, he claimed he’d given her a twenty. She was so confused
she gave him two more fives and then watched him walk away. Later when she
counted her drawer, she came up short ten dollars. She is convinced Mary Jane
sent the man -- maybe had him hit on her, too.
From then on, her paranoia grew, suspecting Mary Jane of
stealing money and plotting to steal her husband, too.
Maybe it was because Mary Jane would call the booth from
home or someplace else for no reason.
“She didn’t have anything to say,” Safire said.
Then last Saturday, Mary Jane called and seemed upset that
Safire was still there.
“I had to stay and do inventory,” Safire said. “That meant I
had to stay for a couple hours after closing.”
Since the booth was closed on Sunday, Safire didn’t find out
about the break-in until she came in Monday morning and found the glass smashed
and about 30 rolls of film missing. Oddly enough, she also found a gray sock
the thief had apparently dropped, a sock filled with hundred-dollar bills.
Bob had the glass replaced with reinforced plexiglass. She’s convinced Mary Jane is behind it all.
I’m not at all sure.
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