Leave the shop? Wait, no, stop!

[Video Gone]

OK, so here's something that happened to a friend of mine today and I that really got us thinking.
We walked into a petrol station to pick up some food for a super-invitational LAN party we're hosting tomorrow, and seeing some condoms behind the counter, (actually an extremely rare thing in Ireland, leastways around Ballincollig and that) my comrade-in-games said "Yeah, I need 20 packets of those please."
Joking around, another friend of mine, who happened to be in the shop at the time, said jokingly "What are you talking about, gay people don't need condoms!"
"Yeah they do, eejit, what do you think they..." and so on.
So the girl behind the counter says, obviously messing, "So what you get him for Valentine's day then?"
"One of those chocolate rabbit yokes."
*Counter person giggles a bit*
I say "Yeah, funny thing about that is it's actually true.", as we bought them for each other every year as a kind of in-joke, but that's a seperate story.
Girl behind the counter says "Lads, I'm gonna have to ask ye to sit over there now."
Me again, "Look, we just want to buy some food and drink, OK? I have it here."
"Sit over there or ye'll have to leave, lads."
*We walk over reluctantly.*
"Don't sit there at all, actually, just go."
"But-"
"Just get out, will ya!"

I mean, come on.
After a few minutes, when we'd gone into a different shop, I observed "But what if we actually were gay, y'know? That was just a stupid thing to do, kicking us out."

So, Escapists, have you ever been removed from an establishment for extremely stupid reasons?

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Yes. The manager escorted me from GameStation because I spent three hours on the PS3 they had set up in there with Batman Arkham Asylum on it. Maybe he had a point, there was a line behind me...

 

[happysock]

It's happened to me twice, the first time was because I watched 2 episodes of spongebob squarepants they were showing on the HD tv's (when HD first came out), the second time Me and a friend spent 2 hours on rockband in HMV

 

[Cherry Cola]

I had to go away form an internet Café, and I repeat, an internet café, because I was being a little too loud while playing Left 4 Dead.

I was there with 7 of my friends! There were no other people there except the guy who took care of the counter. And he just comes in and yells at me, turns of my computer, and orders me to go.

 

[Ekonk]

Sounds like good old-fashioned homophobia. EDIT: Or not.

And no, I've never been removed for extremely stupid reasons. A friend of mine however, has. I was there. He was drunk beyond description. He wrecked things. Glasses, mainly. And then he started arguing with the staff. Eventually he yelled really hard 'I'VE GOT ECONOMICS', as in, the subject, at school, which was kind of hilarious. Well, he was thrown out.

 

[Erana]

A theater guy tried to kick me out for having a bottle of soda that I got at the vending machine behind the ticket-taker.

The worst part is that I had been contemplating on how weird it was to have a vending machine in a theater, and with hypothetical evil schemes, I looked guilty when confronted. ;-;

 

[SuperGordon]

There was a little milkbar / video rental place near my house when I was a kid. I used to go there all the time, and knew the owner a bit. One day, I accidentally walked out with a carton of milk and got most of the way home before I realised. I instantly turned back, went to the store, apologised a bunch and paid. The guy hadn't even noticed, so he was pretty happy with that.

Fast forward a few months and I go in there before school to get some candy or something. I look at some gum just as the guy comes out and goes nuts at me for supposedly trying to steal it. He tells me that even though he was in the back room, he was watching me on the security camera and knows what I was trying to do! "Just buy what you want and get out! Actually, don't even do that, just get out!"

I later found out the security camera wasn't real.

Also, unbeknownst to me the guy was in the middle of selling the store (in my memory it was his last week as the owner?), so maybe built up stress was related somehow.

 

[Valksy]

Booted out because they thought you were a bunch of gay fellas? Or booted out for being rowdy? (pretty sure that people don't confess to the former unless their arm is being twisted).

Would you be so kind as to name the petrol station chain? (if it was one).

As for not being easy to buy condoms....sigh...buy 'em online if you have to but come on guys, rubber up will ya!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Never been kickout, or even threatened with being kicked out.

 

[Bob_Bobbington]

Haven't been kicked out but I was followed around a store by an attendent. Maybe she thought I was going to steal something?

 

[Shaegor]

I haven't been kicked out before, but I once was frisked out of the blue.
It's quite disturbing if you know you haven't done anything.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I got kicked out of Blockbusters for calling the manager a dumbass. Does that count?

 

[Legion]

What did she mean "sit over there"? I thought you were in a petrol station buying stuff, where would there be to sit and why would you need to sit there?

Never been kicked out, or even threatened with being kicked out.

Me either. I don't tend to stay in places like shops longer than I have to anyway.

I have almost walked out of places before though, due to crappy service and whatnot. I wnt to Pizza Hut with a few friends about a month ago and they were basically out of everything apart from basic pizzas, including coffee!? If it weren't for the fact that we were already there and everywhere else would be packed we would have just left.

I haven't been kicked out before, but I once was frisked out of the blue.
It's quite disturbing if you know you haven't done anything.

That happened to me by undercover police once outside a train station. Apparently I was looking suspicious as I was watching everyone coming out the station so I might have been a mugger. Never mind the fact that the clothes I were wearing were conspicuous and not designed for running in (so I couldn't get away if I did steal anything) and the reason I was watching everybody was because I was meeting some friends and they were late so I was keeping an eye out for them.

 

[berault]

I was kicked out of wal-mart, for suspicion of stealing.

Here's the story:

I had just come from a town fair/carnival, i was with my girlfriend (at the time). I had won a prize ( a teddy bear, or something like it) and being the gentlemen I am I gave it to her, an employee saw us, thought the prize was their product, we had to give up the toy and leave the store.

 

[Davrel]

Thankfully no; probably because I'm tall, white, male, straight, well-spoken and English so I'm hardly a target for discrimination. If there was another silly reason to have me removed from a shop, it would have to be something really bizarre.

 

[MBergman]

I got kicked out of Blockbusters for calling the manager a dumbass. Does that count?

This sounds interesting!
Why did you call him/her a dumbass?

 

[ProtoChimp]

My friends and I got kicked out of a gym because they saw us leaving the KFC next door. *facpalm*. Do they want us to stay fat or something, and who puts a gym right next to a KFC.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

You're from Cork? Same, you must be awesome.


I once got kicked out of a Costcutter for "drunken behaviour". I was only tipsy!