Even after retiring from NASCAR almost eight years ago, Dale Earnhardt Jr. still remains as relevant as ever in the community.
Although it is not just Junior himself, several members of the Earnhardt family are often in the public eye. While Dale Jr. does so with his team ownership, business ventures, and podcasts, his wife, Amy Earnhardt, does so with her social media and the couple’s podcast ‘Bless Your ‘Hardt.’
The couple often discusses the unseen and unheard side of the Earnhardts on camera. They discuss new topics every week and share a hilarious and loving dynamic on screen. In their recent episode, Mrs. Earnhardt narrated a funny incident with their daughter, Nicole.
Amy Earnhardt and Daughter Nicole’s Candy Heist
After Junior and his wife spoke about their experience at F1 Miami and the hospitality of Red Bull while they were there, Mrs. Earnhardt started detailing her recent drugstore incident with her daughter.
When she was taking her daughter to school, Mrs. Earnhardt had to stop by a drugstore to get medication for her toothache. While they were there, she bought her daughter a few toys and proceeded to the self-checkout counter.
After checking out, when the mother-daughter duo stepped out in the parking lot, the little Earnhardt turned around and dramatically pulled something out of her pocket.
“I turn to grab her hand to get into the parking lot, and she goes, ‘Haha!’ She’s got a lollipop the size of Texas that’s got a lightsaber on the bottom of it.”
As the whole room burst out with laughter, Mrs. Earnhardt revealed that she panicked after seeing the lollipop and said, “Where did you get that? Mommy didn’t pay for that. We’ve got to go back inside.”
Her daughter was reluctant to go back to the store and had a death grip on the lollipop. Somehow, she convinced her to put it back in the low bucket of candy from which she had picked it up.
“It was a very low bucket of candy right next to the self-checkout. So, of course, she grabbed it. But she stole that damn thing,” she said.
There’s nothing like the panic of realizing your 4-year-old just pulled off her first lollipop heist.🍭@DaleJr pic.twitter.com/YKeekvJVxu
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Junior asked if she had told the lady at the checkout counter about the stealing incident, to which she replied:
“No, but they were watching me make her put it back in there. So, of course, they knew that we walked out with it. I mean, there are cameras everywhere in there.”
She further added that the store might have footage of her daughter shoplifting the candy. Dale Jr., who couldn’t stop laughing, looked into the camera and urged CVS to send over the clip for the show.
After this, Mrs. Earnhardt confessed to stealing some candy herself back in the 1980s.
“Brocks had this giant display at the grocery store and all the little buckets, which you could fill you could fill your little bag up with and then weigh it at the checkout. They had those strawberry candies and the butterscotch, and all the really good old ones. So, I’m pretty sure I lifted a couple of pieces of candy.”
This prompted Junior to speak about his time in military school when he once went to a mall. As Junior calculated what he could buy with his $15 inside the store, his roommate opened a candy bar and left half of it on the shelf.
Junior, impressed by the kid’s courage, said, “I want to do that, but I don’t have the balls to do that.”