Do you have any funny or extraordinary shopping experiences to share?

Trish

Trish

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In another thread, I posted about a recent incident in the local supermarket when a guy's baggy, low slung trousers fell down. It's probably mean to laugh but, it was funny and his modesty was preserved by his baggy boxers so, could have been worse and hopefully, once he was over the embarrassment, he laughed too. Actually, I like to think that, in about 50 years time, he might be on a seniors forum telling everyone about it. šŸ¤­

Anyways, it got me thinking about other incidents I have seen at the shops and I think the stand out one was the "Influencer".

It was a lovely sunny morning and I popped down to the supermarket early to get some cold drinks. The first thing I noticed was the security guy squinting his eyes and staring over my shoulder. Before I had the chance to turn around, I heard a high-pitched, excitable voice squealing "Here I am filming LIVE in LONDON! Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! I'm on air! Going LIVE ...".

A young, very pretty girl, fashionably dressed (although, some might think underdressed for a Saturday morning supermarket shop) wobbled into the shop wearing a pair of high heeled sandals which probably weren't designed for walking, she giggled in delight when she spotted the shop's metal shopping baskets on wheels "OMG! How cute are these!" she gushed waving her phone in front of her.

By this time, a small crowd had stopped to watch her but, unfortunately, the security guard had seen enough and, as the girl scanned her camera around the shop she caught sight of the stern looking security guy blocking her view. "Excuse me! I'm filming! I'm going LIVE. I'm on Air. I have 550 followers watching YOU right now ...".

Despite the girl's protests, the security guard ordered her to turn off her phone and escorted her out of the store. This was before influencers were a thing and, at the time, I thought it might be some sketch for a tv comedy thing, she would have made a great character and I would have happily watched her tour of the supermarket :)

Anyone had any funny or even extraordinary experiences in their local shops?
 

PeppermintPatty said:
Funny and a bit extraordinary
We purchased a bathtub a month ago and itā€™s gone missing . Not really funny. More unusual.
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A bathtub! Was it stored outside?

Where I used to live, years ago now, there was an elderly man who lived downstairs and he stole my bin!

The bin was a bright red metal one and not as big as the usual ones but fitted perfectly in the corner outside my door. One morning it had disappeared. I asked around and the man downstairs was very sympathetic and said how awful it was that "people nowadays will steal anything". Months later, the same man moved into a care home and his son cleared the flat and there, on the skip, was my red bin!
 

Trish said:
A bathtub! Was it stored outside?
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No! We didnā€™t even get it. Itā€™s from Costco. It was stolen somewhere while being shipped. We ordered it April 4th and were supposed to get it April 30th.
Trish said:
Where I used to live, years ago now, there was an elderly man who lived downstairs and he stole my bin!

The bin was a bright red metal one and not as big as the usual ones but fitted perfectly in the corner outside my door. One morning it had disappeared. I asked around and the man downstairs was very sympathetic and said how awful it was that "people nowadays will steal anything". Months later, the same man moved into a care home and his son cleared the flat and there, on the skip, was my red bin!
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Sorry you got your red bin stolen. Your neighbour was a thief AND a liar
 
I was shopping in the grocery store and had about 15 items in my cart and one was ice cream.
A man came running up to my cart and said he wanted the ice cream. I said go buy some and he claimed it was the last one and wanted mine. I just ignored him and went to check out. He started yelling about the ice cream but I made it out to my car.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
No! We didnā€™t even get it. Itā€™s from Costco. It was stolen somewhere while being shipped. We ordered it April 4th and were supposed to get it April 30th.

Sorry you got your red bin stolen. Your neighbour was a thief AND a liar
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Oh that's annoying!

A little while ago, one of my neighbours had to phone a company she had ordered some items from as the parcels never arrived. The company got in touch with the delivery firm who claimed it had been delivered and, as proof, sent a photo of the doorstep and the parcel sitting on it. The door in the photo was not my neighbour's door, even the door number was wrong! The courier probably just put it on a random doorstep, took a photo and nicked it!

Thanks but, it was only a cheap one from Amazon. You are right, he was. Up until then, I always thought he was a nice man! I even did some shopping for him. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
 
Rae said:
I was shopping in the grocery store and had about 15 items in my cart and one was ice cream.
A man came running up to my cart and said he wanted the ice cream. I said go buy some and he claimed it was the last one and wanted mine. I just ignored him and went to check out. He started yelling about the ice cream but I made it out to my car.
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Wow! He sounds crazy.

During Covid, a friend of mine had someone grab a pack of toilet rolls from her trolley and run off with them! When she told the store manager, he said it had happened several times. People were desperate for toilet paper!!!
 
I was filling out my grocery list. I stepped up to the oranges, and waited cheerfully behind a couple who were there first. Some time might have passed, my head was in the clouds. The man turned slightly and saw me, became angry and, in my face: "Why the hell didn't you say something!"
No big deal, I shouldn't have been daydreaming, but it sure ruined my fun.
 
I can relate to the guy's pants falling down. In the seventies I was riding the subway and a woman who was standing holding onto a pole................Well, her skirt suddenly fell down. I laughed so hard, I laughed and laughed. I still laugh all these years later, I can still see her skirt just falling down. One of the biggest laughs of my life. :ROFLMAO: :D
 
Another incident in the grocery store, where I had about 15 items in the cart and the checkout person said I could put them in the 10 or less checkout lane. Then this man came up to me and said I wasn't allowed to put them in the 10 or less checkout lane. He even followed me out of the store yelling at me. He scared me but I kept going out to my car and drove off seeing him in my rear view mirror waving his arms.
 
gruntlabor said:
I was filling out my grocery list. I stepped up to the oranges, and waited cheerfully behind a couple who were there first. Some time might have passed, my head was in the clouds. The man turned slightly and saw me, became angry and, in my face: "Why the hell didn't you say something!"
No big deal, I shouldn't have been daydreaming, but it sure ruined my fun.
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Wow! He was rude! You have every right to daydream, it's one of my favourite passtimes :)
 
Pepper said:
I can relate to the guy's pants falling down. In the seventies I was riding the subway and a woman who was standing holding onto a pole................Well, her skirt suddenly fell down. I laughed so hard, I laughed and laughed. I still laugh all these years later, I can still see her skirt just falling down. One of the biggest laughs of my life. :ROFLMAO: :D
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OMG! :ROFLMAO:

Your post made me think of something. Back in the day, women wearing trousers for work were frowned on so, most women wore skirts. The amount of times you would see women with the back of their skirt caught in their knickers! I remember working at an office that had both a camera and a tannoy and the receptionist had a clear view of the corridor outside the ladies loos. If you heard the receptionist call "Skirt!" over the tannoy, you knew someone hadn't checked their skirt before they exited the toilets šŸ¤­
 
Last week a woman approached me at the grocery store and says "you smell wonderful, what are you wearing?". I said "thank you but I'm not wearing anything". Funny thing is I spent two hours in the gym that morning and hadn't showered. As she walked away she says "well it must be your natural aura, you smell arousing".

Arousing? Really? I certainly took it as a compliment but it's kind of funny for a senior to use that term to a stranger.
 
Rae said:
Another incident in the grocery store, where I had about 15 items in the cart and the checkout person said I could put them in the 10 or less checkout lane. Then this man came up to me and said I wasn't allowed to put them in the 10 or less checkout lane. He even followed me out of the store yelling at me. He scared me but I kept going out to my car and drove off seeing him in my rear view mirror waving his arms.
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It's weird how irate some people get over small things. That sounds quite scary.

At Christmas, I was in the supermarket pushing one of the small trolleys. The queues were quite long except for the tills at the kiosk. I turned to go to those as I only had a couple of items in the trolley but, then noticed a sign which said "baskets only" so, I spun the trolley round and walked off, got distracted by the Christmas offers and, it wasn't until I heard someone laughing that I realised that a full-sized cardboard cutout of Father Christmas was attached to the front of my trolley! I had to walk back to the kiosks so they could remove it and put it back in it's rightful position at the start of the "baskets only" queue! šŸ¤­
 
C50 said:
Last week a woman approached me at the grocery store and says "you smell wonderful, what are you wearing?". I said "thank you but I'm not wearing anything". Funny thing is I spent two hours in the gym that morning and hadn't showered. As she walked away she says "well it must be your natural aura, you smell arousing".

Arousing? Really? I certainly took it as a compliment but it's kind of funny for a senior to use that term to a stranger.
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I think she was chatting you up @C50 which, of course, is also a compliment ;):)
 
Talking about "falling panties".....:

My mother was a "proper" lady but sometimes she just got pushed too far: It was Christmas and she had taken me with her downtown to do some shopping. We had our arms full of packages and were walking back to the car. Mom was very, very pregnant and she was waddling down the block to the traffic light to cross the street.

Just then, she felt her voluminous maternity panties starting to slip. She was trying to clutch at them and walk faster and decided to just cross the street at that spot to save some steps to the car. We reached the other side safely, but a policeman appeared out of nowhere and started to scold her about jay-walking, "....and there you are, crossing the street with no traffic light there and you have a child with you and furthermore, you being in the family way!" He said he was going to have to give her a jaywalking ticket.

Just then, the panties made their escape and fell down around her ankles. She bent down with difficulty and snatched them up, waved them in the cop's face and yelled, "This is why I was rushing! Do you think I don't have enough trouble with three children already and another one just about ready to be born? You have me all upset now and it'll be a wonder if I don't have this one right here in the street because of you!"

The cop harrumphed a bit and then said to be more careful in the future and hurried off.

I've told my other story before but here goes again:

Again, it was Christmas (what is it about Christmas and shopping?) My cousin was trying on clothes and I was pushing her toddler (maybe 18 months old) around in a stroller while we were waiting. I had gone into one of those candle-and-smell-good-soaps stores and had made a few swoops up and down the aisles. I thought I was keeping the stroller out of grabbing reach, but apparently I wasn't. We left the store and were 2-3 stores down the mall when I looked down and to my horror, she had a big cellophane-wrapped "gift basket" in her lap. OMG! I immediately had visions of being chased through the mall by big burly security guards, thrown to the floor with someone's foot on my neck and spending Christmas in jail.

I turned instantly and sprinted back to the store, where I threw the basket on the first display I saw and made a hasty retreat. I was a nervous wreck. Of course, nobody would have believed me when I said, "The baby took it! I know nothing about it!" YEAH, LADY, TURN AROUND AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!

Seriously, though, I was nervous going back to that mall for years, but I did have a great story to tell at her 18th birthday party!
 

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