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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		My Mother Sent Me Away When I Stopped Helping Her Shoplift
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:59
	Publish Date:		2018-09-22 12:00:00
	Description:		"When I was 11, my mother had me quite well trained for a certain job. But then she fired me from this job. She fired me because I was not cooperating with her shoplifting escapades." So begins Silvana Clark's story of rebellion. Clark is a writer and speaker based in Bellingham. When she was a kid, one of her main jobs was to accompany her mother to the supermarket, and position herself just so at the far end of the cart. "That way she could put steaks and expensive items into her purse, and if someone's coming down the aisle they don't see her," Clark said. "I knew it was wrong, but when you went to the store, that's just what you did." Silvana says her mother's behavior was understandable, if not excusable, when you consider that she grew up desperate and underfed during wartime Germany. All her life, Silvana said, her mother retained the "hampster mentality" of feeling the need to hoard and scrape. Silvana stopped cooperating not because of moral qualms, but rather because she
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