Locked in a shop overnight.

[Frostine]

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.

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 . It would be more fun if someone had Gok on speed dial for a sober opinion, darling

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.

Awww why did Adsa pop straight in my head

@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.

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

It is a much nicer shop

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

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

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

@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.

@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.

@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.

@RedToothBrush

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

Ohhh this is the best idea so far

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.

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

Harvey Nichols. I would absolutely love this!

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.

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/

@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!

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

Didn’t IKEA do sleep overs years ago?

@RedToothBrush

Definitely IKEA with a bunch of mates.

If only to play hide and seek.

Would you go the wrong way round???

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...

@Frostine

Surprised no one said Ann summers

@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!

Sorry meant to tag @Eminybob not @Billybagpuss