2005-12-11

My New Coat

A few weeks ago I bought myself a coat. Much to my dismay, when I left the store with my new purchase, the anti-theft alarm went off. The cashiers and manager looked my direction. The manager paused and waved me through saying, "She just forgot to disable the sensor." OK, fine by me. No problems here...or so I thought.Since that fateful day, I've been setting off the anti-theft alarms everywhere. Nice. Now everyone thinks I'm trying to steal something. Luckily, no one seems to care enough to search me. It goes something like this:



  1. I enter the store and the alarm sounds. "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"

  2. The clerks look at me, but noting my direction (remember, I'm walking *into* the store at this point), quickly go back to whatever they were doing.

  3. At the conclusion of my shopping experience, when I try to leave the store, the alarms sounds again. "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"

  4. I stop walking and turn around, looking for someone who gives a shit. Crickets. The people who should give a shit, don't. Apparently there is a shortage of people who give a shit.

  5. I leave the store, setting off the alarm one more time. "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!" Hey --- hat trick.


One of the clerks at Barnes and Noble asked if I was stealing something. Would a real thief answer anything other than, "no"?


So, I've been thinking, maybe I should take my coat back and get it disarmed.

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/12/2005 3:30 AM

    We bouught three new coats for the children and they did the same thing. Apparently they are making them now that you need cut the sensor off a piece of material sew on an inside seam. They don't even bother to disable them. Either the cashier has to cut them off or you do when you get home.

    I had a lot of fun dragging three kids into Circuit City and setting of the alarm each time a entered and exited. I did notice the same thing however, no one gives a shit, so it didn't really matter.

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  2. Anonymous12/12/2005 3:35 AM

    and why does the link you sent of the coat say "Style available in Europe only"? What the hell are you trying to pull here?

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  3. Anonymous12/12/2005 3:48 AM

    HA! Did you buy your kids coats in Europe too?

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  4. Anonymous12/12/2005 4:48 AM

    Cool. I found the sensor and it has been disarmed. I cut the blue wire in the back.

    Thanks Ca1amity.

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  5. Anonymous12/12/2005 5:12 AM

    awe, see, now his hands are smokin'...
    he ain't dead yet.

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