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Locked in a shop overnight.

290 replies

Frostine · 28/09/2021 15:05

If you were locked in a shop overnight ( by yourself and in no danger )
Which type of shop would you choose ?
Mine would 100% be a bookshop . Even better if it had somewhere to make a coffee / tea.
My idea of heaven.

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SageRosemary · 28/09/2021 15:44

I think it would be fun to be locked into a wedding dress shop WITH some friends and have to time to try on loads of crazy dresses/veils/accessories and take lots of photos and drink Prosecco GinWineGlitterball. It would be more fun if someone had Gok on speed dial for a sober opinion, darling

DidgeDoolittle · 28/09/2021 15:46

When I was a teenager I had a Saturday job in Woolies. The stock room had a separate stock room just for all the pick and mix sweets. It was full of sacks of each kind , plus sacks of chocolate. It was divine. We all used to dream of getting locked in there overnight.

Cas112 · 28/09/2021 15:46

Awww why did Adsa pop straight in my head Blush Grin

viques · 28/09/2021 15:47

@MarshaBradyo

The nicest department store that has beds, food and books

Does Harrods have all those not sure

It does, but it’s not a very nice shop.

Liberty would be my choice, there might be a dearth of beds but there would be comfy sofas, lots of scarves and cushions to make the sofa cosy, good chocolate, a very esoteric perfume department and some swanky jewellery to try on.

MarshaBradyo · 28/09/2021 15:49

Viques very true I only shop in Liberty these days ; (apart from online)

It is a much nicer shop

RedToothBrush · 28/09/2021 15:51

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

MasterBeth · 28/09/2021 15:52

How many books are you going to read in a bookshop overnight?

NapoleonOzmolysis · 28/09/2021 15:52

A friend of mine got locked in Dorothy Perkins overnight, except it was on the balcony outside the staff room window where she'd gone for a fag, and she wasn't stuck there all night because her dad eventually came to see where she was Grin

Firetimeagain · 28/09/2021 15:52

@MarshaBradyo

The nicest department store that has beds, food and books

Does Harrods have all those not sure

That would be Liberty.
The next morning I would hide so that I was locked in the following night and the one of after that, and the one .. you get the idea.
Dollywilde · 28/09/2021 15:52

@WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks

Is there such a thing as an off-licence in a book store?
There should be, tbh.

I'd love to get locked in Liberty like @viques. They have Arthur's Cafe so I could crack into the cocktails while in beautiful dresses and swanky jewellery.

viques · 28/09/2021 15:52

@KatherineSiena

Fortnum & Mason’s. It’s always been my go to place for a wander when I need a pick me up. Although I’d probably be walking up and down their stairs a lot to offset all the chocolates and other goodies I’d eat.

Waterstones in Piccadilly would be a close second. Floors of books plus a coffee shop and their lovely cocktail bar all to myself.

Two good choices. Funnily enough I nearly got locked into the Japanese shop near there, I was crouched down looking at something on a low shelf at the back when without warning the lights started clicking off and the shutters started to descend over the windows , I would have beaten Usain Bolt getting to the door.
LaBellina · 28/09/2021 15:53

@RedToothBrush

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

Ohhh this is the best idea so far
ParvaAvis · 28/09/2021 15:53

Not a shop, but I’d love to be locked in a big museum, like the V&A. Think of all the exploring you could do behind the scenes, bliss. Or a big, old hotel, say in Vienna or Paris. I have a fascination for unused/neglected rooms in these places.

Firetimeagain · 28/09/2021 15:53

Viques I hadn't RTFT but great minds & all that Smile

PlinkPlankPlunk · 28/09/2021 15:53

Harvey Nichols. I would absolutely love this!

AdditionalCharacter · 28/09/2021 15:53

Costco.

I'd drag one of those huge beds over to a huge TV, get a huge snack and a huge drink and vegetate. I might even read a book, as long as I could still have my huge snack.

Dollywilde · 28/09/2021 15:54

Does anyone remember a BBC Christmas movie from about a million years ago where the mother and her kids on the verge of homelessness get locked in a London department store?

www.imdb.com/title/tt0205983/

NotMyCat · 28/09/2021 15:54

@Reallyimeanreally2022

Selfridges

You’d have to drag me out the next morning kicking and screaming

Same. I'll be in the beauty department then the food section!
AngusThermopyle · 28/09/2021 15:55

Definitely Fortnum and Masons, anywhere near the florentine's....

EvilPea · 28/09/2021 15:55

Didn’t IKEA do sleep overs years ago?

EvilPea · 28/09/2021 15:56

@RedToothBrush

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

Would you go the wrong way round???
elp30 · 28/09/2021 15:58

Books for Cooks in Notting Hill

It is cozy, only cookbooks, has a demonstration kitchen and a few wing-backed chairs to hang out comfortably...

Cascascascas · 28/09/2021 15:58

@Frostine

Surprised no one said Ann summers

maxiflump1 · 28/09/2021 15:59

@Billybagpuss

Someone did get locked in the big bookshop by Trafalgar Square a few years back, and he phoned the police to be let out before he’d even built a fort!
Oh I loved that episode of Dawson's creek. So much chemistry between them. I'd also loved to be locked in overnight anywhere with Joshua Jackson!
maxiflump1 · 28/09/2021 15:59

Sorry meant to tag @Eminybob not @Billybagpuss