I was asked to leave B&Q, mortified

[chickenandapples]

I was approached by a member of staff who said that he just reviewed footage that 3 months ago, I was recorded not scanning an item at the self checkout and they believed it was intentional and just asked me (quite nicely and compassionately I might add) to leave.

Whoopsie! 😬

I note that they have no scales at B&Q self service which makes accidents easy.

Oh wow.

You seem very unbothered. I assume you’ve offered to pay for the item?

Mortified and doesn’t give a fuck. What a whirlwind

Roughly? A single screw or a power tool?

It was too embarrassing and the guy said he thought it to be intentional, I don't really want to go back in there anyway. There's screw fix which is better anyway, plus my dad is a tradesman and gets a discount there.

It was an accident, should I wear a sandwich board in the town square?

How can you be mortified and not give less of a fuck at the same time?

Were you on the way to voting for the Green Party when they stopped you?

I voted Reform actually.

I was talking to the MNer on here trying to call me a thief. That's what I dont care about.

you guys crack me up. Honestly think it's more likely he was shaking because I'm a pretty young woman.

Why on earth did you even believe them? I would have asked to see the proof.

Actually it isn’t. That’s why the security guard added the bit about them believing she took things intentionally.

Okay? So what. It's not life ending.

“Accidents”.

Are you the CEO of B&Q or something why are you foaming at the mouth spamming me

What did you steal?

No idea, I don't remember.

It's so easy to make a mistake like that when you're not concentrating OP. I once went out with my Mum for a day's shopping. We were in M&S, and I saw a cardi I liked, tried it on, and hung it over my arm ready to go and pay. We wandered around a bit more, looking at various things, and were so busy chatting, that I completely forgot the cardi, in spite of it hanging over my arm. I was about 30yards away from the store when I realised, so red faced, and mortified, I rushed back in and paid. Looking back, it was obvious that no one in the store had noticed me walking out with a brand new item hanging over my arm, so I probably could have got away with it, but I'm not the sort of person to do that, and me and my DM used to often giggle about 'that time when I NEARLY stole a cardi from M&S'.