What's Your "I Can't Go To That Store Anymore" Story? (r/AskReddit)

[@doctorsqueaks1683]

Wherever a waiter says “enjoy your meal” and I respond with “yeah you too”

[@ZieSpiralOut]

Doctor squeaks I’m a server and it’s really funny how often that happens... I always reassure the person that it’s a very common response...

[@donkylefernandez4680]

I've never had that happen and I fear the day of reckoning. I'm an anxious person though so I A. don't eat out a lot and B. have a rule of listening to my waiter until he leaves

[@sws212]

I respond "how are you" to a "how are you", #Badass.

[@cthulhustar997]

i always quickly acknowledge it so its less embarassing "woww, like your going to shit here and split it with me"

[@Simon11354]

I once couldn’t walk into a store because the doors were locked.

[@Simon11354]

@Fyi Hfy Thanks will try later

[@j.saunders3406]

@Fyi Hfy "Yes sir, this comment right here"

[@Icanfigureitoutintime]

Quitter!

[@yaySurrep]

Same

[@HaniiPuppy]

7:10 - Most shops in the UK won't charge you for something you broke if it was clearly an accident and not an obvious result of being daft or negligent.

[@movingchannels2203]

You don’t know the true pain of having your mom get mad at some workers at Kroger’s because they put a limit on some of the items *_Now whenever I see the manger I awkwardly wave and just continue to look at the floor. I’m sorry Steve!_*

[@riagreen9294]

Hello Greater Cincinnati Area neighbor

[@RockPwnsYou]

i grew up in a small town and i think i had that thought about almost every place i frequented as a teenager, at one point or another. i have some honourable mentions though: got super high in the middle of the night with a carful of friends and we went to the 24/7 convenience store. i was baked out of my mind. so we go in and grab shit and i go to pay, give the dude my money, and he tells me it's not enough. but i was too fucking high to comprehend and just spent a minute staring at his hand with my change in it trying and failing to count it, until he just laughed and told me it was fine. that was bad enough, but then i went there a week or so later and, same scenario, high as a kite. was walking up and loudly proclaimed how hot the cashier was to my friend, only to get to the door and realize it's propped open and he definitely heard me. i didn't go back for a whiiiiile. and then there's the time i leaned on the bathroom sink of the tim horton's, talking to my friend as she was peeing, and it broke off the fucking wall. just one second i'm upright, the next me and the sink are both on the floor. refused to even go through the drivethru for at least a month, for fear the workers would be like "hey you're the one who broke our sink".

[@em1osmurf]

10:00 68 years old, and in my lifetime have never, ever, been in a hardware etc big box store that i didn't lift the lid and see a big hairy turd in it.

[@OceanAce]

5:16 Never date the servers either. Used to love this one place but now I feel awkward going back because I got ghosted by a server who still works there.

[@darkdan3549]

Wasn't a store but tried out a new barber shop. I gave this lady pretty clear instructions on what Kind of cut I wanted. I'm a guy so it's pretty straightforward. She ended up giving me a fade which I didn't want, told her that I wanted it all cut down to the same length. She asks are you sure? at this point I'm just losing patience but I say yeah I'm sure. Anyways she said she's done and it still looks really bad and Uneven. At this point I just gave up and gave her my card to pay. Turns out they are cash only, they told me there's an ATM a few doors Down. Yeah right, I'm not paying you to screw up my hair and not follow simple instructions.

[@donkylefernandez4680]

As my friend who liked the rush of the chase would say: "DIP! DIP! DIP!"

[@josepherhardt164]

I finally found a barber shop where they cut your hair the way you want it, not the way THEY want it. Not going anywhere else. Been going there for, like, DECADES.

[@chromxrobinandcorrinxcamil9031]

I can't go into Toys R Us anymore. Because, you know, humanity killed it like they do with everything else.

[@fuxyews2177]

Toys R us in the UK was absurdly expensive and often had their stores several miles away from the towns that sold exactly the same products. Couple electronic, clothing and grocery franchises closed down too, for which I assume was the real reason, rather than the implied ones..

[@Quel907]

They do have a new format at select locations. Check it out.

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

Lmao the more comments I see complaining about how humanity destroying things I can't like it's so convoluted, it may be mostly true but you pass the fact we haven't done anything else like idk, preserving forests and saving endangered animal's too. But y'all ain't ready for that conversation. 🤷

[@ccggenius]

@@girlscanbedrummers5449 That's a cockeyed argument to make... Why do you think those forests need preserving and animals need saving in the first place? What, do we deserve a medal for NOT doing something now?

[@skylinefever]

Most of these stores did it to themselves. Most of us can't go to Sears or K-Mart.

[@dangsood4945]

I gave my number to a guy at a local coffee shop who had been making the effort to come and talk to me and generally giving off interested vibes the last few times I'd been in. He then found my website and sent me an email on the contact page to tell me he was underage and was already wih somebody and that he was flattered but he was sorry. Mortified. Never been back since and never will ever ever.

[@strawberrypocky6644]

3:32 I started laughing so hard that I choked on my spaghetti. By the end of it a noodle came out of my nose. XD

[@snoopsnoop7704]

I want a part two of this. But also I can relate to how painful awkward it is

[@imaspoon4522]

I went into a convenience store and this young cashier, the only person there at the time, immediately asked me out when I set down my items. Not even a hello, just immediately asked if I would go out with him. I lied and said I was taken. He said that's okay, he has a girl himself. I said I'm too old for you anyway (I'm at least twice his age!). He said that's okay, he knows how to treat older women. I repeated that I was taken and said bye. I foolishly went one more time, though, and we made small talk and he asked if I'd changed my mind. Told him no, politely told him goodbye, and left. I'm not even a milf. This kid is just odd. I can never go in there again. Even though I doubt he will work there forever. I'm not gonna lie, having someone young enough to be your son ask you out because he likes your looks is better than a poke in the eye.

[@iamlearningjapanese5276]

In a store called Future Shop (That is closed now) I went to the music station systems, turned them up and there was nothing coming out. I saw a red button and pushed it and it was so loud in the store. My whole family got out of the store. My mom, dad, and brother actually wondered who it was. I put my hand up and felt embarrassed. I was in grade 6.

[@mildredchester]

I was in a discount store years ago near closing and the cashier thought she had given me $8 too much. They wouldn't let me leave. I don't know what her error was but I didn't have her money (this was before registers were so automatic). For almost 10 minutes I stood there while they figured it out. EFF THEM.

[@EulogizingSleep]

I was with friends at a walmart who decided to steal a bunch of stuff. I was not involved in the stealing but was hanging out with them. Well Walmart security caught all of us while we were leaving(literally at the doors) and talked about how they needed all of our licenses and that they were going to call our parents(we were 17). Not only did i not agree to that i just left and walked home. In fact i hardly stopped at all i only heard the stuff about calling our parents because he was yelling at us. Well i noticed behind me the entire staff (seriously at least 10 employees) was walking towards me(we are outside now several yards from the door) and i crack up and say you can follow me home i live four miles away! I was shocked my friends stayed behind and let the Walmart employees berate them and keep them their until the cops showed up(cops didnt do anything but they were embarrassed and banned from that location). Lesson to everyone: If you are not holding a loaded gun to my head i am not doing anything you say regardless of what i have done wrong or what you think i have done wrong. I am always shocked by people’s willingness to be controlled and told what to do. Needless to say i have never shopped at that nor any walmart again( this was 8 years ago).

[@NihonRebooted]

Not me but my friend told me he used to visit this cafe almost daily after work. He had his ipad out and was watching porn with headphones on. It wasnt until he was leaving that he realized the window behind him reflected his ipad screen for all to see. He said he refuses to go back there now

[@EvilPaladin11]

Why is your friend watching porn in public?!

[@loudsketching]

EvilPaladin11 to establish dominance

[@KingDuckGuy]

Coffee and porn, strong combo.

[@FlowerFace870]

Is your friend a neckbeard by any chance?

[@ccggenius]

... It was a window. He wasn't concerned about people OUTSIDE seeing him, but the reflection was a bridge too far? Your friend has some weird priorities.

[@Yamismol]

Bestfriend's abusive ex started working there :/ He knows me and has recently been trying to get in contact with her so would definitely try to talk to me. I get really bad anxiety around him (even before they broke up and I found out he was abusive and predatory) so now I can't go into that store with panicking and being afraid I'm going to run into him

[@kimzastrow1268]

If i could sit in my house and have all the thing i needed delivered to me and never go out i would

[@soupe_yt]

I was at a discount store and saw they had candles so I went to smell one and accidentally grabbed it by the lid. Well the lid came off and the candle which was in a glass jar fell to the floor and shattered. The whole store went silent. I was with my friends and made them leave with me because I was ashamed and one of the employees kept giving me looks

[@Icanfigureitoutintime]

Like some advice? If you're on the toilet and something comes out of you that's not urine, flush the toilet. If you wipe yourself, flush. I don't want to hear it's not environmentally friendly. It's pulling down odors with all the water. If you're clever you can close your legs together and really keep what you're doing a secret odor wise. Even if it's a noisy toilet. Better to use the above than blowing up someone's bathroom or having a clog. Also more flushes keeps the pipes flowing so fewer clogs.

[@no-rx6ft]

My pants ripped at McDonald's and i didn't have undies on, i have never been there since

[@ttsreadsredditstories2923]

omg, did this really happen?

[@pondererofpointlessdreams5029]

what happened to your undies?? was it laundry day??

[@bruhe8895]

@@pondererofpointlessdreams5029 probably was laundry day

[@laurahuynh8333]

Going commando backfired :)

[@bruhe8895]

Dude you shoulda used the opportunity to establish dominance

[@54GodzillaFan]

I once couldn't go back to a store because they went out of business.

[@VegaVegnagun]

Ah yes, I usually just bingewatch through these as an pre sleep ritual but tonight I had some good laughs. This shit right here is genuinely comedy gold. My day has been a bit hard but now I can go to sleep in peace. Thanks, and sub!

[@kayq3231]

I fist bumped my supervisor when she was trying to hand me something...

[@skrrt-skrrt]

R.I.P

[@smashbrother980]

I'm glad I was a bladder control prodigy

[@makutamiserix5612]

I went to a corner store with my friends and I noticed porn mags in the corner. I pointed them out to my friend and he starts picking them up. The cashier said not to touch them but he keeps joking around about how he likes that issue. The cashier gets pissed and kicks all of us out and says not to come back. I stayed clear of that store for about a year due to second hand embarrassment and my friend accidentally telling my parents about the whole situation. My friend went back there and the cashier didn't even remember the incident when my friend asked him about it. I've gone back plenty of times since and there's a new cashier. I never saw the other cashier again.

[@belakiss1703]

6:50 Thanks for the clarification I thought it happened in London, Ohio

[@itsgaylebitxh]

No need to be a dick.

[@asdfgyjhvj7881]

Béla Kiss What if it happened in London, Ontario?

[@wisconsingoldrush8270]

I am definitely going to fist bump every cashier that tries to hand me coins from now on

[@hannahdavis5725]

I was a wee one when Monsters Inc. came out and my mom was taking me to see it for my birthday. I had a bit of a stomach bug and hid it because I wanted to go out. Didn't work out so well cause after lunch I puked in a store we were visiting. We never went back into the store but I still got to see the movie once my mom calmed down.

[@lemongrassarch1432]

Pressed a button on a coffee machine and it broke and all the coffee started to come out. There was a sign on top that said not to press it but I didn't have my glasses and I'm blind. The man jumped over the counter yelling a bunch of stuff in another language then in broken English.

[@KurtAustin2448]

Worked at a Walmart for a year. Employees are treated like shit. Now I avoid buying anything from that company whenever possible.

[@honestlynate7922]

I like to go into small boutique clothes stores and try on a 70 dollar shirt and plop a turd in the fitting rooms because noone wants to spend 70 dollars on a damn t shirt

[@socalindi8241]

I can't go to a local restaurant because one of the employees thinks I'm related to another employee and I never corrected her. So there are days I have to remember when she works and not go lol

[@Dizz2K7]

"So this dude just shoots himself right in front of me"... Yeah, that's much better.

[@millennialdisposition]

I actually laughed so hard at 7:52 my ribs hurt and I had to pause

[@SkyKitten1]

The Forever 21 at the mall near my house. I went with a couple of friends once and these particular friends kept making dirty jokes while looking at womens' underwear. It got to be too much when they pointed at a girl in the store and whispered very non-discreetly "damn she got some small ass tits!" The girl was an employee and definitely heard them.....I took off and left the store (almost the mall). Haven't been back since, which is fine bc I don't shop there anyways, but I always speedwalk past it.

[@EulogizingSleep]

was with friends at a walmart who decided to steal a bunch of stuff. I was not involved in the stealing but was hanging out with them. Well Walmart security caught all of us while we were leaving(literally at the doors) and talked about how they needed all of our licenses and that they were going to call our parents(we were 17). Not only did i not agree to that i just left and walked home. In fact i hardly stopped at all i only heard the stuff about calling our parents because he was yelling at us. Well i noticed behind me the entire staff (seriously at least 10 employees) was walking towards me(we are outside now several yards from the door) and i crack up and say you can follow me home i live four miles away! I was shocked my friends stayed behind and let the Walmart employees berate them and keep them their until the cops showed up(cops didnt do anything but they were embarrassed and banned from that location). Lesson to everyone: If you are not holding a loaded gun to my head i am not doing anything you say regardless of what i have done wrong or what you think i have done wrong. I am always shocked by people’s willingness to be controlled and told what to do. Needless to say i have never shopped at that nor any walmart again( this was 8 years ago).

[@WalterWhite-dr2yz]

I went to a store with a friend who robbed it of a snicker. That was a nice store

[@assassintwinat8]

somehow im imagining ur friend pointing a gun at the cashier's face demanding the snickers

[@MZ-tq3dv]

I went to a jewellery store for some earrings to match my ring, the attendant tried to sell me a pair of $12,000 earrings I tried to worm my way out of the store she said did you want a better look I said no I'm waiting for my glasses to arrive from Australia, so she said oh you are from Australia how long have you been here where do you live I just made up stuff cause I didnt know how to correct her so suddenly I'm engaged have a house and I'm from Australia none of which is true in the end I said me and my partner make large financial decisions together she gave me her card, I haven't been back since actively avoid that store.

[@tristenrodrigue7998]

Mine is Collin Kapernick kneeled so my parents hate Nike

[@1AceTM]

Mine. It caught on fire.

[@justin_seagullshutupmalfoy8111]

One time i was at the mall with my best friend because we had a sleepover at her house. We went to this store and looked for some lip gloss. The lip gloss was in a glass bottle/tube or whatever u call it. I dropped it. It broke. My friend told me to just leave it there since nobody was looking anyway. Luckily her mom was already in line and was about to pay for the stuff that she got. The staff found it and they didn’t know that it was us. I’m lucky that I’m good with hiding things and that I’m good at acting cuz that was kinda scary for me idk why. Bad thing is that they probably looked in the cameras and knew it was me and I don’t remember what the store was called and I don’t remember what mall it was so I’m in trouble. Good thing is that I got about 90 dollars so I could easily pay for it. My parents don’t even know

[@jessa2666]

jUsTiN_sEaGuLl SHUT UP MALFOY better watch out. I wouldn’t post that on the internet for the cops to find. They’re probably looking for you rn! 👮🏼 🚓 🚨

[@justin_seagullshutupmalfoy8111]

Jess A But it was a year ago. I moved.

[@jessa2666]

jUsTiN_sEaGuLl SHUT UP MALFOY ah yes, on the run I see. Smart. Never stop moving or they’ll find you

[@justin_seagullshutupmalfoy8111]

Jess A I can’t just choose that I’m going to move. I’m only 12. Plus I can pay for it

[@fuxyews2177]

Tried to buy 50 cheap used PS3 games online via CEX. 60 games £100 Delivery charge £75 Purchased same game list on musicmagpie 60 games £135 Delivery charge £0 I get that they're coming from individual stores, but there comes a point where individual delivery costs get ridiculous.

[@nivek5352]

Lmao the friend with explosive diarrhea in a wedding store from both sides

[@timmiller2252]

Went into a vape store as I was going to try quit smoking but as I walked in the (very pretty) lady behind the counter goes oh hi u must be the guy from the ph? (I wasn't the guy from the ph) but i was looking at her instead of where i was going and walked straight into a shelf of large hookah vases every single one starts wobbling then sure enough they all drop and all smash on the ground. I turned around left the store and lit a cigarette that was all the signs I needed haha.

[@Lana-un2qk]

Sorry but I'm laughing so hard about the barbershop 🤣

[@ttsreadsredditstories2923]

Soon the stores will go to us.

[@37willdog]

At a golf galaxy, playing on the simulator. My buddy hit the ball and it bounced off a metal pole hidden behind the screen and flew backwards at a really high speed. Luckily it didn’t hit anyone but we left immediately

[@smokieokie9939]

9:24 hilarious

[@aarongilbertphonetube219]

(we still go back to this place) (also apologies for my terrible writing) so my family and I live near Pittsburgh which means we go to the Carnegie Science Center a lot. One of the nights before we went I was a stupid idiot and stayed up literally all night (I don't mean to like 2 in the morning I mean literally all night) fast forward we got on the train into town and about halfway through the ride I threw up. Everywhere. Fast forward a little bit we arrived at the Science Center and I go clean myself up then I throw up again (thankfully this time I was in a bathroom) so I agreed that I shouldn't be wandering around here all day. thankfully they have a little back room that I stayed in for about 2 hours. The rest of the day is a blur but but now they train all new employees how to handle situations like this!

[@miniwolfsbane2407]

I feel that first one. I, a 34 Yr old female, made an American Girl stuff unboxing video before the Coppa thing hit. I have 2 pink shelves of MLP on my back wall. I do have a deep voice for a girl. So the only comment I got for it was "blah blah blah. You should cut your hair. It makes you look like a woman." 😳 I wasn't sure wether to be offended or laugh. I was polite about it, mostly. Wrote back "In case the pink shelves of ponies didn't give it away, I am a woman, lol." Plus how many men genuinely buy AG stuff? I'd wager not many! No reply, but I almost don't blame them. In addition to the above, I think I have an androgynous face and the crap camera didn't show my make-up while I filmed from the shoulders up. (I have unholy bewbs, so seeing me from the front....yeah.)

[@dawndawn4193]

Mini Wolfsbane I FEEL YOUR PAINNNN

[@miniwolfsbane2407]

Lol, thanks.

[@KI-my4dj]

I was in walmart and some worker lady was tryna get me to buy some shampoo or whatever and I accidentally knocked one over and it started knocking all the other shampoos over and I wanted to die and she looked dead inside and said she would clean it up so I said sorry and ran away then I grabbed a chapstick and put it in a random persons cart by accident and I didn't want to take it out cause what if they saw and think I'm taking something from their cart so I just left it and ran away again then tripped right as I was leaving the store

[@laynestaley2563]

What r u like 9?

[@jimevans4582]

If I'm a girl and you call me sir that means if your a man I'm going to call you mam.

[@tsg7official]

Threw up at the entrance of a thrift store.

[@dergluckliche4973]

I don't live in Nordstrom territory anymore but...Nordstrom. Any of them. I haven't found anything I wanted at a Nordstrom since about 2004. I did, however, check out the new Nordstrom the last time I was in New York.

[@D5950-h]

We're gotta go cause done I gone

[@ronaldblackburn2483]

LOL this was a good one.

[@shlomitgardi8982]

I peed on a plastic potty in Ikea when I was 2.

[@steveon104]

Hi

[@EvilPaladin11]

Howdy!

[@justin_seagullshutupmalfoy8111]

Annyeonghaseyo

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

Best Buy...elsewhere.

[@donkylefernandez4680]

cockroach in weinerschnitzel, that's all

[@donkylefernandez4680]

Damn, that bagel store is rough, there is no way that was anyone's fault lol. They're taking teen angst to seriously. I just read angsty fanfiction if I ever felt lonely then it was back to school.

[@donkylefernandez4680]

for a sec near the end of the video I wondered to myself if you could buy alcohol while intoxicated...

[@54GodzillaFan]

Some of these things are such minor piddly things. These people need to grow a fucking spine.

[@makhnig3150]

Just stay away from phone! Go anywhere n everywhere

[@anyaburniston4765]

EARLYYYY

[@anelasurla5243]

Hehe first