Help me I am trapped in waitrose

[StealthPolarBear]

Can't find my way out, the only stairs I can see go to a car park
Ah well

I got lost in Boots in Leamington Spa last year. Went in and went up. Or down. Couldn't fine the way out that i went in. I find Leamington confusing because of it's street levels vs shopping center levels ...

There's a you tuber who hides in shops and tries to spend the night there without getting caught. Slips out in the morning once the place has opened. I find this idea strangely attractive. He's done it in a warehouse type place like B&Q. He did it in Ikea and hid in a wardrobe and then slept in a bed IIRC.

I'm not exactly sure how this relates to the thread. I'm just reminded of it

IsSheWeird and Notquite I feel like we've bonded over an oddly-laid-out supermarket! I always park on 5, walk up the stairs to Waitrose and then walk down the travelator on the way out. The challenge is to get off the travelator before the woman has finished saying "Please prepare to push the trolley off the end of the conveyor" (I never normally have a trolley)

I do have a life really

OK I've been in cafe Nero for literally hours now. Time to brave waitrose again

There was a man who got locked in Waterstones after it closed for the night last year. I remember reading the story and thinking why did he want to be let out? Think of all of the quiet reading time he could have. Strange man

Lemon DS2 worked out at a very young age that you can run down without the woman noticing, if you're quick enough.

Good luck, Stealth. Maybe note a few landmarks as you go in.

And I rareiy use the lift. I get too annoyed with it, for some reason.

My brother and I got lost in M&S in Manchester years ago, we couldn’t find the exit, it was baffling. We did in the end, but it stopped being funny after a while.

Stealth why do you have to return to waitrose?

I got lost in a Sports Direct the other month. It's windowless and confusing, there was a trail of people wandering aimlessly until we eventually found the stairs.

santa

I’d love to get stuck in Waitrose for the day.

I haven’t ever been in a waitrose big enough to get lost in. I did have a scary overwhelming experience in a 24hr Asda recently. It was the biggest shop I’ve ever been in. I couldn’t wait to get out.

If there are any Cornish folk who have used the St Austell Asda, you may know what I’m talking about.

windy I don’t think that ones too bad? But then I grew up with that one!

I got separated from DH & DD in Ikea in Coventry. Was a nightmare trying to find them & then actually leave the building. It has 7 floors as in an old office block. I swear they moving the escalators around the day we went.
Ikea in Wednesbury always causes arguments in my family & one of us ends up storming out.
Ikea Nottingham is the best as we have a great time, buy too much & come out all dizzy & high & thinking we've spent way too much. Ikea in Leeds has the same effect on my DF. My DM likes to lose him in there & escape to the cafe for some peace & quiet.
Ikea in Miton Keynes is pleasant.
My friend visited Ikea in Malmo, Sweden (whilst she was on holiday there) she was disappointed that it looked just like any old Ikea. I think she was expecting some kind of magic & oohs & aahs.
Fancy visiting the new Ikea in Sheffield next.
I think I should do my MA in Ikea: National & Global Experience & Emotions.

@ScreamingValenta Black Forest loaf bread crumbs, you mean. Drool!

Almost never escaped from ikea in Coventry. The lifts are way too confusing!

Toddler my DH said that Cov Ikea & the horrendous one way road system has scarred him for life.
The people of Coventry are lovely though!

Ikea in Southampton is notorious for getting lost in.

My favourite Ikea is the Bristol one, the Wembley one is ok, but I find the Southampton one strangely down market, although you can watch the ships from the cafe. I don't much care for the Milton Keynes Ikea after my traumatic experience (see my previous post) , but am looking forward to visiting the new one in Exeter.

@TracyBeakerSoYeah oh god. Yes the one way system. I was late for evensong having driven round the city about 3 times. So glad I don't live there!

Nottingham ikea not a problem'

I was talking to a lady last week who didn't realise she'd been locked into a branch of Bon Marche. She was bopping along to her head-phones, browsing work trousers, and it was only when she went to the counter to pay that she realised she'd been abandoned when the fire-alarm went off.

DD and I got lost in the Debenhams in Argyle Street , Glasgow.

Dived in (she wanted the loo) , checked the floor number , went to the lift but found one on a lower floor .......... and we could not find the exit.

I went past the Benefit Brow bar at least eight times till the lady asked me of I'd like a Brow Makeover (I must've looked like I was trying to pluck up courage. It would've been ok if I hadn't plucked my brows to death)
We eventually found daylight and legged it out

Windy your local Asda does a fab breakfast. Saved us all on a long trip to Cornwall one summer

I got stranded at a motorway service station once.

It was one of those ones with half the facilities on one side of the motorway and the rest on the other side. Went to the cafe on the other side of the bridge and then crossed to go in some shop or other. Then went to the loo. Came out of the ladies and went the wrong way across the bridge.

Quite a long time passed before I twigged what I'd done. By the time I realised and went back over, the coach I'd been travelling on had left without me.

DS2 worked out at a very young age that you can run down without the woman noticing, if you're quick enough.

Ooh, a new challenge! If you see a full-grown woman pelting it down the travelator next time you're there, you'll know who it is!