Elena Cardone's Funny Shoplifting Story | The Elena Cardone Story

So for all the people out there that are not maybe doing so well financially, another thing you talk about in your book is that you were a master of shoplifting. So I think this could be helpful for people that don't, you know, that need to steal right now. So I was, I was curious of your strategy of how you—

For real? You want— I didn't say this in the book.

No, you don't give the strategy. You just said you were good at it.

I am good at it. Well, I just— I mean, back in the day, I was, um, you know, like punk rock. And yeah, and so we used to wear cowboy boots or marching boots because in New Orleans they have these marching bands, you know, from Mardi Gras. And so they wear white boots that have these little tac tac tac tac tacs on them. So I used to wear those or cowboy boots. But the trick is you wear cowboy boots. So like, let's say you go into the dressing room with 4 items and one's hiding, so but it's really 5 items, right? So you go into the dressing room, well, you come back out with your 4, but with the 5th you've shoved it into your boot or, you know, on each side or whatever. And in my case, back in the day, we used to wear a lot of Spandex, like zebra-colored Spandex pants with little skirts and, you know, cropped little shirts. And, you know, we— whatever, I was a teenager. So yeah, I would steal that kind of stuff and no one would ever know. And I even knew how to take those little things off back in the day.

Those things? No way.

They didn't have the ink stuff back then. That's new now. But yeah, I could take those things off easy, no problem.