long story short, i got cocky. read on for the whole story
i was out with a friend and we went to FYE. i showed her some socks, she liked them, i put them in my bag without checking for tags or rdif’s. this was mistake number 1
i detagged 4 cds i was getting as gifts for my friends. then i moved on to mini brands and an animal crossing mystery keychain. my friend cashed out and we walked out. we beeped. i stood by the escalator and she went back in and let the lady check her bag. my friend didn’t lift so no harm no foul.
the lady waved me back in and i didn’t beep on my way in. my mind was racing because i didn’t think there was anything on me that could’ve gone off. i had a bag from hot topic and let her look in it cause all my stuff was in my purse. she asked to look in my purse and the conversation went as follows
me: “i rather you not i have a lot of weird personal medical stuff i have to carry with me.”
her: “well ok if that’s the case we can get security people here to take a look for me”
me: “that’s not necessary, i probably just beeped because of my heart monitor. my doctor warned me it could set off stuff like this sometimes.”
her: “well you didn’t go off coming in so i have to insist on checking your bags”
me: “ma’am i’m within my rights to refuse a bag search. i’m telling you it was just my heart monitor. it’s done this before.”
her, turning to the phone: “ok then i’ll just get security up here”
me: i don’t have anything
her, getting in my business: you wouldn’t have gone off if you didn’t. hand it over and i won’t call them. i know you took something
so i reaches in my bag and grabbed the first thing i touched. one of the cds i detagged. she waved it past the towers and when it didn’t go off she told me “keep it coming”
at this point there’s a line of 5 people behind me and my friend. i’m losing my mind over this lady being fucking aggressive and embarrassed that 5 people are witnessing it. SA lady turns to address one of the customers because she thinks she’s recording. she bitches at the lady that she’s not allowed to (pretty sure she is) and the customer just tells her to calm the fuck down and told her she shouldn’t be acting like this to anybody no matter what she thinks i did.
she threatens to get security again so i just hand over everything to get my hot topic bag back and leave with my criminal record untouched. i didn’t figure out it must have been the socks until i got to my car.
i got cocky and greedy. i just can’t believe it was a fucking pair of socks that got me
it was honestly best case scenario for getting caught. no security or cops. just a shitty sales associate telling me not to come back.