The Thief Detector

[straphanger1]

 The thief alarm starts shrieking as I walked out of Barnes and Noble, and I slowed down, lowered my phone and turned around to see an angry-looking bookseller standing near the exit. "Should I come back?" I asked. "Yes you should," she replied. Guilty before being proven innocent. "The alarm went off, and I need to see what's in your bag." The

Comments

[gumonyershoe]

I don't see what the clerk was so uptight about your "damn skippy." The theif detectors are somewhat useless it seems. Either legitimate people don't get de-beeped, or the theifs are stealing things that don't have beepers. but whatever.

Anyway, good luck to you.

[wickedhearts]

I often get the alarms ringing and on two occasions the dumb cashier didn't take the alarm off the clothing items...so I'm sure if I had been stopped it would've looked bad. Oh yeah and there's the awkward walk back to the store realizing that they didn't take it off.

[asio_flammeus]

ah, it's amusing how uptight that particular bookseller was. those things go off so often it's not even funny. it's usually when people don't stop and look perplexed that a bookseller will say something.

half the time i'm in the cafe muttering something stupid like "stop, thief!" but i'm not about to go chasing someone down.