[from all the way over here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/244463.html?thread=17478895#t17478895)]

It looked like some other people had also decided to try and lift things from the hardware store. The more people, the less attention there would be on yet another theif.

Recluse had learned decades ago how to make people ignore him when he needed to work without their notice. That act was in place now, as he wandered between the shelves, looking for likely items to steal.