This was the best video I'd ever shot in the dark. It amazed me! I was on my way out of the building when I realized I wasn't leaving fast enough- I had to catch up with a big girl! The woman in black had been in a little argument with the greeter at the door who tried to tell her store policy meant she wasn't allowed to take a powerchair out into the parking lot. She was saying that the woman was just trying to pick on her with a lie. The arguement had to end early because an old woman came up and politely asked if she could use the powerchair, and of course she kindly said yes. <br />This video left me in such a state of optimism I had second thoughts about leaving. I thought I should go back into the store for a few minutes more because tonight was my lucky night. Wrong thought!
The vids I shot after this one that night mostly turned out so dark that this video came out brighter than they did, even though they were filmed in the light, because my camera bbatteries were right about to get low when I filmed this video. I should have just left then. Then, when I finally called it a night for real and headed over to the side of the store I got a very unpleasnt surprise. My bike was parked at the end of a little alleyish road- that I found the Wal-Mart security truck coming up as soon as I turned the corner to go down it. It was too late to run, and there was no where to hide, but I knew from research and experience there was little to really fear. Yes, I got stopped by the security guard. He said "You know you're banned from coming here right?" I said no. He said "You never had nobody tell you you can't come back down here? You never got in no trouble in the store?" I said no and no. (I was actually telling the truth.) I told him I knew I was banned from Target next door because they told me I was, but not from here. When you use a secret camera to covertly film people there are two levels of getting busted: a lower level busting, the one you get from most people, where the person just realizes you're hanging around them, and a higher level one where the person actually notices your camera lens. Just because they busted you doesn't mean they really know what you're up to. "I been seeing you walking around in the parking lot and all that. What you be doin' that for?" Before I got the chance to make up a lie he told me how suspicious that made me look and how I stand out doing that, and I thought about how a new idea I'd just gotten the other day to stay at Wal-mart for longer without arousing suspicion might have backfired.<br />My 'plan to reduce suspicion' was to come on over to Wal-Mart but hang out in the parking lot for twentysomething minutes before and after my shooting/grocery trip. That way I'd be able to milk another 45 minutes without getting into any extra trouble, or so I thought! That's the kind of thinking I was doing when I found the woman in the video 'Another lost pregnant video', and it kind of paid off because I came back with a video. Evidently, though, that kind of stuff just helped me get the attention of the security truck that, like me, also goes all around the parking lot. He told me that people inside told him to call the police if he saw me. I thought "It's finally happening" and said "Okay, so I can't come back here anymore?", and he gave me a semicryptic answer: "No, you can come back but..." I walked back to my bike knowing I'd have to change my Wal-Mart filming attitude once again. I was just glad he didn't say anything about trespassing. In case he was going to simply tell me not to come back, while he was talking to me I was already thinking about how I'd be shooting my future Wal-Mart videos differently when I was going in there knowing I had a ban on my head! I was also thinking about any lies I might have to tell him. Turns out I didn't have to tell any, and I could still come back to Wal-Mart!!!