What weird or strange things have you seen in shops or shopping centres?

AMKC · 01-04-2016 03:05PM #1

I will start. I was in a shop the other day a fairly big store and one of the managers in it was wearing what looked like a VR headset. What is that about?
Another day I was in a shop there was a women in there with her skirt on backwards at least it looked like that to me.

biko · 01-04-2016 03:06PM

Don't think I can beat those. Well done OP

01-04-2016 03:08PM

When I was in a supermarket last weekend, a man was there wearing a T-shirt printed with 'If In Doubt, Ask Yourself; What Would Jesus Do?'

So when I was asked if I needed a bag, I asked myself if Jesus would need a bag. And I decided he would.

Jesus would, indeed, need a bag.

Menas · 01-04-2016 03:09PM

I was in Nashville once and in a shopping centre there one of the original munchkins from the Wizard of Oz had a stand selling his autographs.

LDN_Irish · 01-04-2016 03:14PM

I was in a supermarket last Friday and a chap in there told me he couldn't serve me drink because it's a "good friday" whatever the **** that means.

01-04-2016 03:15PM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I was in a supermarket last Friday and a chap in there told me he couldn't serve me drink because it's a "good friday" whatever the **** that means.

You should have told him that every Friday is a good Friday.

LDN_Irish · 01-04-2016 03:17PM

Candie wrote: »

You should have told him that every Friday is a good Friday.

Retail workers don't like that kind of talk.

01-04-2016 03:18PM

They don't count tho.

Nekarsulm · 01-04-2016 03:19PM

Standing in line in McDonald's in the Swan centre, Rathmines, and a toddler pulled down her pants and took a dump in the middle of the floor.
Walked out, never went back.

StudentDad · 01-04-2016 03:22PM

In a shop a while back and as part of the shopping there was were some packs of Panadol etc. He wouldn't sell all of them to me, legislation etc etc. He nearly had a conniption when I handed the extra to my wife who paid for them separately. Go figure.

SD

kneemos · 01-04-2016 03:27PM

Menas wrote: »

I was in Nashville once and in a shopping centre there one of the original munchkins from the Wizard of Oz had a stand selling his autographs.

That's just sad.

AMKC · 01-04-2016 03:38PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Standing in line in McDonald's in the Swan centre, Rathmines, and a toddler pulled down her pants and took a dump in the middle of the floor.
Walked out, never went back.

Did her parents not do anything to stop her or what where they at?

Nekarsulm · 01-04-2016 04:19PM

AMKC wrote: »

Did her parents not do anything to stop her or what where they at?

Her mum was trying to keep another toddler entertained, and juggling that job with nursing a baby while trying to order, etc.
She looked round, saw what had happened, sighed, and collared a teenage member of staff and asked for a dust pan and broom.
The staffer looked horrified. Training course probably hadn't prepared him for such an eventuality!
Smell hit me and I had to flee....

dee_mc · 01-04-2016 04:26PM

I saw a woman trying on bras in Dunnes a couple of years ago. Just casually walking around, topless, between the displays of different bras and trying on one or two. She looked oblivious to the fact that people might find this behaviour unusual.
Same branch of Dunnes where the 'largest lingerie department in Ireland' episode of Fr Ted was filmed, coincidentally!

01-04-2016 04:46PM

Candie wrote: »

When I was in a supermarket last weekend, a man was there wearing a T-shirt printed with 'If In Doubt, Ask Yourself; What Would Jesus Do?'

So when I was asked if I needed a bag, I asked myself if Jesus would need a bag. And I decided he would.

Jesus would, indeed, need a bag.

I dunno. He had, like, 12 other dudes that could always carry sh1t for him.

Larbre34 · 01-04-2016 04:59PM

dee_mc wrote: »

I saw a woman trying on bras in Dunnes a couple of years ago. Just casually walking around, topless, between the displays of different bras and trying on one or two. She looked oblivious to the fact that people might find this behaviour unusual.
Same branch of Dunnes where the 'largest lingerie department in Ireland' episode of Fr Ted was filmed, coincidentally!

Queue for the bus to Ennis starts here ==========>

seamus · 01-04-2016 05:11PM

AMKC wrote: »

Did her parents not do anything to stop her or what where they at?

Honestly, rather than berate the parent for not noticing, I'm more impressed that the child pulled down their pants instead of sh*tting in them. The mother was probably glad of it too.

Young children have this incredible knack of ignoring the need to go to the toilet until it's urgent.

If one child was being a nightmare for 15 or 20 seconds, that would easily be enough time for the other child to realise they need to sh1te, fail to get the parent's attention and decide they needed to drop trou right there.

ToddyDoody · 01-04-2016 05:38PM

Lunchtime concert by turn of he century Irish Rapper Luke Thomas (attended by two people)

Penny Tration · 01-04-2016 05:45PM

Worked in shopping centres til recently. I've seen a few...

People from a certain ethnic minority shopping in nothing but a plunge bra, ass bearing shorts and flip flops.

A man walking through the centre while sh!tting himself - diarrhea.

Few drunk women p!ssing on the floor.

Guy working on the Sky concession stand having his trousers pulled down.

Old women smoking while walking through the centre - security eventually spotted and threw them out.

Kids running into windows.

Drunks/junkies sitting on the benches in the centre drinking.

Fist fights.

Parents punching and kicking their children.

Parents leaving their kids behind, only to come back an hour later to find the Gardai with the kids.

Couple of people collapsed.

Woman let go of her baby's buggy on the top of a travelator. It rolled quickly the whole way down, missing my concession stand by inches because I ran and grabbed it.

Great craic!

dm2978 · 01-04-2016 07:20PM

Seen this while Christmas shopping, thought it was funny at the time.

Arghus · 01-04-2016 07:31PM

I also have worked in a shopping centre and you do see some crazy stuff over time:

- Woman calmly squatting down to take a dump, while waiting in the queue for the self service checkouts. Couldn't believe it was happening; even as was happening.

- A group of people, from a particular ethnic minority, engaging in all out brawl over a sweeping brush.

- A few heart attacks.

- And epileptic fits.

- A guy literally getting some of of teeth punched out. He'd insulted some stranger's wife - for no reason, under his breath, while passing them out - and had got punched straight in the face for it. Normally, I wouldn't condone violence, but this fellow deserved it. He was a weaselly little pest, a regular customer in the centre, who would constantly say inappropriate or nasty things to people; in the assumption that they couldn't hear him. He obviously wasn't well, but he'd been warmed numerous times about his behavior and it hadn't changed his carry on; so to see a few of his teeth in mid-air, immediately after he got his mouth smacked, was a pleasure that felt long overdue.

- Vomit. Though that was so regular that you'd barely blink at it.

biko · 01-04-2016 07:31PM

dm2978 wrote: »

Seen this while Christmas shopping, thought it was funny at the time.

That reminded me of this I took last Christmas

diomed · 01-04-2016 07:33PM

The Diceman (RIP) dressed as a carton of milk.

Kat1170 · 01-04-2016 07:33PM

People of Walmart

Nothing else to be said really :eek::eek::eek:

Aineoil · 01-04-2016 07:38PM

Seen in Dunnes Stores Tralee many years ago a sign at the meat counter for for Lion Chops.

One More Toy · 01-04-2016 07:41PM

I once saw a convicted pedophile in the toilets of a shopping center in donegal.

Was scary to think that kids would've been in there too.

I later heard he was banned from the center

Kat1170 · 01-04-2016 07:48PM

Aineoil wrote: »

Seen in Dunnes Stores Tralee many years ago a sign at the meat counter for Lion Chops.

I'd say they did a roaring trade

:D

Aineoil · 01-04-2016 08:01PM

I was youngish at the time.The parents passed on the lion chops. I reckon there must have been a roaring trade as people

had tummies that were growling with hunger that weekend.

Boom_Bap · 01-04-2016 08:07PM

If anyone was in the Omni in Santry today they would have seen me having a race with my daughter. A proper 'on yer marks' sprint against each other.

I lost.

Cantona's Collars · 01-04-2016 08:09PM

Aineoil wrote: »

I was youngish at the time.The parents passed on the lion chops. I reckon there must have been a roaring trade as people

had tummies that were growling with hunger that weekend.

You should have pride in that post.

Baron Kurtz · 01-04-2016 08:09PM

Candie wrote: »

When I was in a supermarket last weekend, a man was there wearing a T-shirt printed with 'If In Doubt, Ask Yourself; What Would Jesus Do?'

So when I was asked if I needed a bag, I asked myself if Jesus would need a bag. And I decided he would.

Jesus would, indeed, need a bag.

I love this post. Made me laugh. I kind of read it in a Daragh O'Briain voice.

What weird or strange things have you seen in shops or shopping centres?

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