... of course, she made a beeline for her parents and they came up and wanted to know why I was accusing their daughter of stealing things (let me count the ways) -- I said not stealing but hiding the costume pieces, and that I had told them three times it had to stop, the Bad Seed starts denying it, and the dad says how do you know she did it, so I start to give examples of what her and her cohorts were doing, she's denying it, so I quickly tire of the her word against mine game and finally said, "Trust me, I know" and walked away (I hadn't even gotten to the one about one of the other parents who helped wrangle them confirming who the guilty ones were ...)
