>> Judge Judy: Would you
pronounce your last name?
>> Thibodeaux.
>> Judge Judy: You worked
together at a shop.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: And there came
a time when you asked
to use her credit card.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: When was that?
>> In December.
>> Judge Judy: Of
this last year?
>> '17.
>> Judge Judy: And you had
worked with her for a while.
She let you use her credit card.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Tell me
why you couldn't use
your own credit card.
>> At the time, it was actually
a couple days before Christmas.
And I live in Michigan,
and we were having
a lot of bad weather.
And I was over visiting,
and she was going to take me
to do a Western Union
or money order to send to my son
for my two grandsons so he could
get them something for me.
>> Judge Judy: I'm just
asking you why you didn't use
your own credit card.
>> I don't have a credit card.
>> Judge Judy: And it was a
couple of days before Christmas,
and you hadn't sent a Christmas
present to your child
or your grandchildren.
>> I was sending money to my son
to get them
something for Christmas.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
you weren't sending money.
If you used her credit card,
you were sending her money.
>> Well, I had a check,
a $1,900 check,
that I had just gotten
from Progressive Insurance.
>> Judge Judy: So what did you
need her credit card for?
>> Because we were at her house,
and it was bad weather,
and so she let me use her credit
card to go to MoneyGram Online,
and so that's how
I used the card, to...
>> Judge Judy: Great.
So you used her card...
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: ...her money,
to send your child...
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: ...and your
grandchildren
Christmas presents.
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: You had a check,
but you couldn't go cash it,
so you used her money.
How much of her money
did you use?
>> It was $250 or $275.
I can't remember exactly.
>> Judge Judy: $250 or --
>> It was either $250 or $275.
>> Judge Judy: And did you ever
cash that $1,900 check?
>> Yes, I did.
>> Judge Judy: So now you
had $1,900,
and you gave her back
the $250 or $275.
>> Yes. Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: What date?
>> I want to say it was, like,
beginning of January,
because the weather was bad.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
So the beginning of January,
you had cashed the check because
the weather got better...
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: ...and you
paid her back.
>> Sure did.
>> Judge Judy: So then what did
you use the card again for?
>> I didn't use
the card again, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: What we're here
for is $710.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: You state
in your answer, "She gave me
her credit card to use,
and I paid her for everything.
While I had the card, Sara,
being in the Christmas spirit,"
this is your words,
"allowed me to spoil myself
with a few charges -- makeup,
clothes -- as Christmas gifts."
So what do you mean you didn't
use the card again?
>> She bought me some makeup
for Christmas.
>> Judge Judy: That's not
what you said in your answer.
>> Actually, when I gave
my answer,
it was over the phone,
Your Honor.
Yes, she did buy me
makeup for Christmas.
>> Judge Judy: Would you show
this to the defendant?
>> Mm-hmm.
>> Judge Judy: This is not
over the phone.
This is what you signed.
That's not over the phone.
>> Yes, this was a conversation
that I had with --
>> Judge Judy: That's all right.
But you signed it,
and that's what you said.
>> This was a conversation
that I had with one of the
ladies over the phone --
>> Judge Judy: That's fine.
>> ...about the makeup that she
bought me for Christmas.
>> Judge Judy: Not only makeup.
>> No, it was just --
>> Judge Judy: $710 is not
worth of makeup.
>> Well, actually, she's not
even --
She's not accurate on these
charges because she did not --
>> Judge Judy: May I see --
Just a second.
May I please see
the credit-card bill?
How many times did you use Lyft?
>> She -- most of the time,
she picked me up.
I think a couple times
she used the Lyft
to get me a ride to work.
>> Judge Judy: No, you. No, you.
>> I didn't --
>> Judge Judy: How many times
did you use --
>> Ma'am, with the Lyft app,
the person with the credit card
actually has to be the one
to request the Lyft.
>> No. No.
>> When you put the Lyft
app on your phone,
and you request a ride,
you use it from your phone.
>> No.
>> But now I can request a Lyft
for someone else,
which is what she did.
She would pick me up from work
several times, and there was
a few times that I called,
and she wasn't working that day,
and so there was a couple times
that she requested a Lyft
and got me a ride to work.
>> Judge Judy: Montgomery Ward,
$54.
>> What about it?
I don't know anything about a
Montgomery Ward.