A mom who runs a jewelry store was baffled when the key to the cash register vanished—only to learn the truth when she checked CCTV.
Jewelry designer Avigail Adam, 43, runs her own business, simply named Avigail Adam, with both an online website and physical stores in Pennsylvania. She is also a mom to two young kids: Maya, four, and two-year-old Ben.
Running a family business means her kids sometimes have to wait in the store for her to be finished, and recently the babysitter brought her son and daughter to the store at 5pm, when Adam still had business to attend to.
“I put on a kids’ show for them on YouTube on the iPad while working, and I was sure they [were] watching it,” Adam told Newsweek.
Unbeknownst to her, however, the kids had decided to make their own fun—four-year-old Maya took the key out of the cash register, and toddler Ben “inserted it into the slot in the cashier.”
Adam had no idea this had happened, until she realized the key was missing and she didn’t have access to the store’s cash register.
She shared the story in a viral video to her TikTok account, @avigailadam1, on July 7, where she explained: “POV [point of view] You own a jewelry store and suddenly notice that the only key for the cash drawer is missing.”
“So you check the surveillance and… we have some suspects.”
She then showed the CCTV footage, showing the kids leaning against the cash register while seemingly watching a show on the iPad, but instead pulling the key from the register. Once Maya has it freed, the “second suspect” then does what Adam describes as playing the “will it fit into a random crack” game.
Having successfully pushed the key inside the cash register, with no clue how this will affect their mom’s business, the duo go back to playing.
But it wasn’t that easy for Adam, as she told Newsweek: “For about a week we were not able to open the cash register and accept cash,” and they were only able to access the cash desk again after ordering “another key from the company who makes the cash register keys.”
“We had one lady who got very upset with us because of that, but aside from that it wasn’t too bad,” she added.
She playfully captioned the video “Their lawyer is claiming they’ve been framed, so I should probably add that they are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”
TikTok users had a big response to the clip, liked more than 230,000 times, as some suggested there may be a release button under the cash register, and others baffled at the fact there was only one key.
Others wondered why the kids were left unsupervised, but as one commenter shared: “As a child with self-employed parents growing up, this is the least disruptive thing they could do. I’ve once lost the set of bathroom keys (this was at a restaurant.)”
“My son did the same at our work. We found the key in a random shoe that was on display,” another said, while one wrote simply: “Kids will be kids.”
Self-employed workers make up an important part of the United States workforce: according to a 2023 survey of more than 60,000 people, 7 percent of workers between the ages of 18 and 29 reported being self-employed or freelancers. The percentage grew to 8 percent between the ages of 30 and 64.
23 percent of people in the United States had started their own business by 2021, according to data published by IPSOS.
Another commenter joked: “You can probably deduct it out of their wages,” but one defended the kids: “I’m the lawyer and that’s AI.”
As for the “suspects,” Adam told Newsweek: “I showed my kids the video and explained they have to be careful, but they are still too young and adventurous, so I’m not sure they understood.
“One day soon hopefully!”
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