Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Chloe Salmon, your host for this episode. I love a good mystery,

or a crime story, or a heist. Give me motive means and opportunity any day. There's nothing

like trying to figure out who done it. A tough thing, though, I am a well-known scaredy cat.

When I was a kid, my mom threatened to ban Nancy Drew books from our home because I would

read them and get so scared that I could not sleep.

You know, Nancy Drew, solver of terrifying crimes such as, can Nancy locate a missing

clock and can Nancy figure out who owns this

misplaced suitcase on her cruise ship? If I can get that worked up about spunky girl detectives

locating lost property, you can imagine that scary, gory crimes are not my bread and butter.

So in this episode, we've got two stories of tiny crimes. Nothing horrifying happens,

nobody gets hurt. It's all the rush and mischief of trying to get away with it without any

chance of me or you losing sleep. First up is Adriana Arraso. She told this at a New York City

story slam where the theme of the night was nine to 5. Here's Adriana, live at the Moth.

I was eight years old when I had my first job.

And yeah, I was precocious.

And I was also a multi-hyphenate.

I was an entrepreneur, a fighter for justice, and a criminal.

I grew up in Colombia at a time where the government was very much protecting national

industry, so there were no imports allowed. And for a second grader, that meant toys and candy were locally produced.

So while American kids were growing up with Barbie being a veterinarian or like an astronaut running an ice cream parlor and having a Malibu beach house, I had Valeria.

And Valeria, sure, was more ethnically correct,

but Valeria came as a set with a husband and two kids.

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