True story for me. Was running around when I was around 7 in a Saks Fifth Avenue, slammed my head on a rack and ended up getting a chunk of my forehead stitched and glued back in.
Fashion Bug, shit. I used to scowl at the mention of that place. I believe they went bankrupt or got bought out recently, so little boys will never know what it's like having to wait on their mom to get done looking/trying on clothes there.
Jtk317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that was the first time my brother needed stitches in his head!!
I did this once at kohl's and my mom was frantically looking for me. She heard me giggle and promptly took me outside and beat my ass (not literally).
The2500 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 15:17:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, it was the best I could do to stave off the agonizing boredom that was being dragged off to go clothes shopping.
ademnus ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:46:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when I was little, a shopping trip for clothes or furniture was like being trapped in an iron maiden. Today, I actually love furniture shopping -but even buying clothes for myself feels like torture.
Me and my cousin used to do this. We'd pretend we were grown ups and talk about what we thought grown ups talked about like soap operas or Shelly down the street.
It was never boring for me. I would "capture" other kids, grab them and pull them into my clothes rack, where I would slit their throat with my sharpened thumb nail, then proceed to eat their liver. Got a lot of good nutrition that way. Things were ruined when the manager found a dozen kid's bones in one of the racks, and the police were called out.
I used to look at the department store as a maze that I could purposefully get myself lost in so that I could keep myself occupied by trying to find my way back again. EDIT I literally drew myself a map when I visited my Dad at work (IBM: massive official type building.) I recall one of the checkpoints being some creepy ass taxidermy.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:48 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this PLUS would try to stand next to the mannequins and pretend I was one. I tricked my mom a couple times (or she played along). Was fun though.
Wow... I actually didn't realize it was the black guy in the first pic. I thought they were all mannequins for like a full minute
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:15:35 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also would find shirts that hung in the front of others, and would pretend to be dancing with them. Would drape one sleeve around my waist and hold up the other sleeve. Man I was a loser child.
When I was 5 and living in Miami my parents took my sister and I to the mall. We go to a clothing store like the picture above and my mom starts to rifle through some items, while my mom is occupied my sister and I begin to play tag and as I am chasing her, another girl around the same age starts to play with us. I start to chase the girl, she weaves in and out of the rack of clothes, I follow and as I exit I run head first into that big beige column.
Instantly I am blacked out for a few seconds, when I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by people with a pool of blood around me and blood dripping from my head. I see the girl walk away with her mom scolding her.
I end up in a hospital getting stitches, 1 year later, my family moves to Canada and I begin school, who's the first person I see as I walk into class? The girl my sister and I were playing tag with in Miami.
Yea, she did! It was nice because going to school, not knowing anyone and thinking how am I going make friends was getting me teared up and BAM! first day, I have an instant friend.
Wollem ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:14:46 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always loved hiding in these until one day when I got accosted by a woman who worked there saying if I didn't stop she was going to kick me out of the store and call the police. That's a pretty harsh thing to hear when you're like 7-years-old, or whatever young age I was at the time. Stopped all together after that; childhood ruined. Thanks lady.
I've been there, brotha. My real brother and I had a guy get severely upset with us doing this and he even yelled at us. Seems so trivial. I can't really imagine getting mad at kids for something like this.
Yeah, but kids going into the center of clothing racks and not misplacing anything doesn't bother me. If they were to, it wouldn't be a big deal. I'm doing mindless manual work wether or not they do that. Lets me have an excuse not to talk to customers.
I remember once I was at the clothing store with my mother and hid in one with pants on it to just mess around (although they were straight rather than circular). While I was just sitting there this older guy comes up and starts looking through and is making his way towards where I was. Faced with either being caught or making my escape I chose escape. When I stood up and hurried off I looked back at him and the confusion on his face was priceless.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:29:49 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would have been hilarious if you had handed him a pair of pants.
Had a blast hiding in these as a kid. One thing I used to do was wait for someone to browse the rack I was in, then slightly wiggle a shirt off the rack and whisper "pick me".
When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone,
sit in JC Penny's enthroned,
the evil times will be over and done.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:37:44 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:51 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom would have had a good cry with me and took a swipe at anyone who had a problem with that. lol. My dad would have indeed been displeased (you're just like your mother!).
Going to Dillards or wherever and shopping for clothes with my mom still makes me drowsy to this day. Every time, I want to crawl in there, curl up and take a nap.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:25 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if it's an everywhere store or a local store, but we have a Burlington's Coat Factory here (department store) that my younger brother and I used to always get drug to as kids.
We would go through all of the insides of these, take whatever we found on the floor, and then use it at home later for our action figure fights.
My button a.k.a. landmine armaments were intense after a long shopping day.
Clrmiok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:07 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this once in the late 80s with my dad at Walmart. He freaked out and got store security because when he called my name I didn't come out. When they found me, he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the car. Some little old lady followed him because he was so mad (really he was more terrified somebody had taken me.) She told him she wanted to make sure he didn't beat me. My dad stopped turned to her and said "if you don't mind your own damn business you'll be next" he didn't spank me or anything we just went home. But I never hid in the clothes racks again.
That's a good sign you were ready to be fully potty trained. When kids start wanting "privacy" that means they're forming an understanding of what they're doing and have actually developed the tools they need to detect when they have to go. And you we're probably in pull-ups because you would still have accidents. Easier to change a dirty pull-up than an entire outfit.
Wait, what's the reason? I feel like I'm missing something. Aren't little boys and girls equally capable of being abducted? When I was a little girl I hid in these at every possible opportunity.
Must be. We're all working with anecdotal evidence, but I'm pretty sure hiding in small spaces and being sneaky is universally appealing to all children.
BBA935 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:37:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what?!?!? How?!?!? I use to do this. How would a girl get abducted? If you are hiding in those things, it's odd anyone would find you. I get the worry, but in the 70's and 80's boys were getting raped like crazy too.
I'm not calling bullshit, but I'm interested in a more detailed explanation to why she thinks this.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:11:05 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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-SagaQ- ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:38:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah no. Pretty sure she was just parroting something helicopter mom said to her.
It really makes no sense. What's the logic, a guy is searching through the clothes, sees a kid and goes "... Well he's on the rack, guess I'm allowed to take him"?
True story! I fell asleep inside one of these when I was a kid. Mom panicky and calls store security, mall security, and police. After about 45 minutes my mother kept circling the the area where she last saw me. She decided to start looking inside the racks and there I was napping!!
I used to do this all the time and then one time when I was 5 my dad just continued shopping and let me wander around lost in Target for like 20 minutes.
I never strayed again.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smooth maneuver on his part.
No kid like being lost hehe
I definitely caused a store-wide lock down once when I took one of those simple handheld video games from the toy section and hid in a clothes rack for a LONG time. An employee eventually found me and practically dragged me to the front, where my mom screamed in grief-stricken glee and then promptly grounded me for life.
Oh, man, it certainly brings back memories. I was the worst big sister, I would hide in those, and watch my little sister panic. She fell for it every time, my mom would just shake her head.
Working retail when kids did this was a pain. Even better was when a kid would injure themselves and the parents blamed the store and stuck us with the Doctor bill. Good times.
Okay so when I was very young (born in '89, so early 90s), I was a troublemaker apparently, and my parents tried one of those child-leash things for the first, and last, time in a department store with these racks.
According to my dad, I went and ran to hide and play in one of these racks (as I was wont to do), and I was on the leash, and apparently I got completely tangled myself in the rack, and the store security had to come and it took about 10 minutes for them to free me.
According to my dad, that was the last time they ever tried the child leash on me.
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:13 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just lay down on the floor and screamed until my mum took it off. I'm still proud of toddler me for winning that battle. Knowing my luck though, if I had complied she probably would have used it until I was far too old for it and I already looked a few years older then I was.
I used to work at a Nordstrom rack and holy shit, there were so many kids hiding in those things. They love to pop out and scare customers lol
Clrmiok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:59 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to post again forgot to add a story :-) a few years back I was shopping at a department store, now a fully grown up person, and I parted a rack of shirts and there was a little kid standing there all big eyed staring back at me. I couldn't help but laugh and just smiled and closed the close back up leaving him there lol! So very many times I hid like that and very rarely was I found. Just cracked me up to see that kid standing there, he had to be like 5-6 yrs old. I knew just how he felt
I fell asleep hiding in one of those. Parents were furious and relieved. I blame them. They spent hours shopping how can they expect a kid not to get bored.
Zanki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know right! Mum would take me shopping every single week. Same routine. Get there, get a MacDonalds, go to the toy store so I could get a cheap Matchbox/Hot Wheels car then it was time for mum to shop for a good couple of hours. Of cause kid me got bored and thought hiding in the clothes racks was fun. Shame they don't have them like that anymore in the UK. I loved them, but I guess stores got rid of them for a good reason, kids.
As a young adult I worked at JCPenney's and while dusting the rack tops I get the shit scared out of me by a kid hiding in a rack. I didn't yell at him though. I thought it was pretty funny. His mom saw and yelled at him :(
Zanki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were these two little kids playing tag in a store I worked in years ago. Apart from me they were the only ones up there and I was quite happy to let them play as long as they didn't go too wild and hurt themselves. I remember what it was like being a bored kid shopping. I was giving them hints were the other was hiding and somehow I became part of their game as they used me as den. Their dad wasn't very impressed when he caught them but they cheered me up (awful job) and I talked to their dad for a while. Nice family.
When I was in my late teens early twenties, I worked at Pacific Sunwear. When it was slow, I would hide in the rounders, hop out and scare the shit out of customers. I really enjoyed working there.
"Attention employees: we have a code Adam. Repeat: a code Adam. Six year old boy last seen wearing a red Elmo shirt, navy shorts, and red Crocs. Last seen in Misses Betters."
Fun story, I hid in these and my mom thought I was kidnapped. There are plain clothes officers that work at Target and I guess that were looking for me. They almost locked the store down!
But I wanted some of that sweet Target popcorn so I came out
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mum called security on me when I was eight or nine. I used to sit in the kids shoe area of the store and just play on my Gameboy. One week they had moved the section so naturally I just went to look for where they moved it. It wasn't far away and I just sat down where I had told my mum I would be. She goes to find me and I had my headphones in, playing on my Gameboy and I heard a faint call but didn't think much of it. A few minutes later I see a security guard run past me. No big deal, then I heard the your in trouble yell of my name over my headphones. I got up and wandered over to where I had heard her. Man, she was pissed at me for not being where I should have been. I told her I was exactly where I said I was, the section had just moved. Not a good excuse according to her. Turns out she had the entire store looking for me, hadn't bothered to ask them where the section was now though. My days of sitting while she went clothes shopping were over for a while.
Miu_K ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:27 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always did that when I became really bored. I did it again when I was 11-12.
hmd27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:08 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom and my aunt finally learned to stop dragging my cousin and me out shopping every damn weekend. We would hide and not respond to them, turn off the escalators (little red button), and make paperclip guns with rubber bands and shoot people in the asses when they bent over for items.
I learned at a young age that rebelling was a great way to protest things I hated being forced to do.
I did this in a Florida department store when I was little (around 5 or6). The entire circular top was solid glass. Needless to say I toppled it over and the entire glass circle almost landed on top of me. Probably would have done some serious damage.
Was the best fun ever!!! My 7yr old inner child has spoken.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:55 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Omg i did that every single time my mom went shopping. Never ran into any other kids in there :-) m mom would get so mad cause she'd find me by hearing some lady get scared when she parted the clothes and saw me standing there. I'd also crawl into the bottom of the displays, when they had those sliding doors below for extra stock. Good to see someone else was just as goofy. I still hate shopping and as a woman that's kinda weird. Thanks for the memories!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:38 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every fucking time my daughter does this and every fucking time I freak out for a second thinking I lost her.
tdvx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hid in one in a Caldor's, despite my mom calling my name I kept quiet to prank her until the store was locked down and police brought in for a potential kidnapping. Don't remember it but I probably got a good beating that night.
Hell, wandering more than 10 feet away was enough for me to get a beating, no hiding in racks required.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:36 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean as a kid?
lava172 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:10 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hid in those when I went to the mall with my mom then when I went to Home Depot I'd pretend I was on a construction site or something and hide in the aisles of lumber
cait_o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:03 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom used to get scared shitless when I did that. Now I get scared shitless when my daughter does it. it's the circle of life
I was hiding from my sister in one of these when I was 5, I ended up falling asleep waiting for her to find me and they shut down the Macy's because my parents couldn't find me.
Vairman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son would do this to me when we'd go shopping. He's slip into one of those so fast I'd never even see it happen. The first couple of times it scared me to death - I was convinced he'd been kidnapped of course. Which he thought was the funniest thing ever, the little shit. I should have sold him to those gypsies like I wanted to but his mom wouldn't let me. dammit.
I remember doing this and a group of people shopping moved the clothes and found me there just hiding. They burst out laughing and I had no idea why.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was simply the best part of shopping. Especially the resale stores! They choice of fabrics and designs were much superior to retail stores, which made it much more fun.
I was hiding in one of these when I was like 5 and I knocked the whole thing over. Some piece of metal snagged my finger and tore a strip of skin of my finger from my palm to the tip of my finger. A nice lady gave me a teddy bear though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:55 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a small lad, the other bored-out-of-their-wits kids and me would play fort in those things....go on a department/store wide pranking spree, that was one path to Aladdin's Castle.
Oh god fucking no!!!! The one fucking time I hid in one of these as a kid my mom starting having a panic attack and thought she had lost me or I had been kidnapped. She started tearing the store apart and got just about all the people that worked there to start looking for me. At that point I was scared shitless of what was going on, so I just continued to hide in one of those. I think it was about 10-20 minutes to they found me. I didn't get in trouble but I'll be dammed if that didn't scar 7 year old me so bad that even to this day I don't even fucking dare reach my arm into one of those. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THAT FUCKING MEMORY.
My parents owned retail shops in the 80s and my little brother and I would play in those clothing racks. I liked hiding in them and jumping out to scare customers. One of our stores had a creepy attic full of mannequins. My brother and I used to dare each other to stay locked in there as long as we could. I still have the occasional nightmare about it 30 years later.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:56 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom used to drag us to those stores seemingly for hours on end. I would pick up the pins off the floor and push them through the skin in my palms, like you would of you were sewing something. Freaked the other moms out. I guess it helped my immune system
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:42 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I would hide in these and whisper "Pick me... Pick meee" when people would walk by. I sure knew how to have fun... and weird people out
When I was three, my parents shut down the Sears tower in Chicago because they lost me. I was hiding in one of these racks beside the register they were at and I didn't come out because I was a sneaky asshole.
BorisBC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:53 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did that once when I wanted to go to the toy section and my mum wouldn't let me. She did the "I'm leaving now" thing and I didn't follow. I then get lost and can't find her. So smart guy me goes out to the car park to wait at the car.
Can't find the car.
So super smart me decides they have left me there and I decide to walk the 10km home. I get home a couple of hours later to find the cops there and my mum freaking out that I'd been abducted. I was not a smart child.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, you can still do that. You may seem creepy, but, ya know, whatever, right?
ianamls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:53 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All fun and games until you're a jerk child and shut down a small
Wisconsin mall because you hid and everyone thinks you've been kidnapped. No? Just me?
And then getting a job at the same store later as a teen and having to dust those racks... I've never wanted to crawl under one and hide more in my entire like. Shit wasn't a game anymore fam
Hahahaha yes!!!! I wonder how many kids scared the bejeezus out of padestrians at thrift stores because they were searching for a blouse and got some kid's hand instead?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:19 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I'm a Mom those things are the bane of my existence if I ever take my kid into a store.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:17 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My twin brother and I were kept on leashes when we were 2 or 3, but we learned how to let each other out.
We got out one time and they had to lock down an entire JCPenney to find us.
We were hiding underneath clothes racks "playing hide and go seek".
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could escape my push chair at that age and I would hide inside the racks as well. Used to drive my mum insane. I remember using my fingers and little nails to get myself out.
Mum likes to tell this story and I have vague memories of it. We were in a clothes store and I vanished. When she eventually found me I was inside a clothing rack with another little boy and we both had lolly pops. She guessed the other kid had given it to me. She used to get so mad at me over it but I was just a little kid and escaping her was my main objective at that age. She attempted to use a leash on me once. She told me I lay face down on the floor and just screamed until she took it off. Zanki 1, Mum 0! Good to know I was just a normal bored kid though.
Bvjiglag ยท 335 points ยท Posted at 15:24:20 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All is fun and games until your mom yells your name and you go to jump out and crack your head on one of the metal support bars...
memphis_53rd ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 15:41:18 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And end up with six stitches across your forehead and a lot of terrified Fashion Bug shoppers. Or was that just me?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:23:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I scratched my cornea on a loose hanger.
Never again
Tee_Hee_Wat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:33:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just had to swallow my vomit
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:35:44 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then just picture a 9 year old with an eye patch trying to do gymnastics and have a chuckle.
Tee_Hee_Wat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:56 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D way better now
thanks
ogcm ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:36:35 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend flicked a ritz cracker at me like you do bottle caps and it scratched my cornea. Stupid things happen sometimes
pumpkinrum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:13:09 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My whole body just spasmed in disgust. Fucking hell.
Derf_Jagged ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:32 on November 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my toes just curled in a 360 degree motion.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:41:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just you: http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/new_joker_feat.jpg
MasteroftheHallows ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:54:12 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck outta here. God damn that bothers me to no end
TheGreatZarquon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:09:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't hear the name Fashion Bug without thinking of this guy
StrungoutScott ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:29:25 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought for sure it'd be this
memphis_53rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:39 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is all that matters
memphis_53rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:15 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bahahaha I had forgotten about him!
arizonaicedoutwes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:02 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True story for me. Was running around when I was around 7 in a Saks Fifth Avenue, slammed my head on a rack and ended up getting a chunk of my forehead stitched and glued back in.
memphis_53rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:52 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reckless!!
marshallu2018 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fashion Bug, shit. I used to scowl at the mention of that place. I believe they went bankrupt or got bought out recently, so little boys will never know what it's like having to wait on their mom to get done looking/trying on clothes there.
Jtk317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that was the first time my brother needed stitches in his head!!
dandycat13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:06 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or get stuck on the clothes, pulling the entire stock of clothes off onto the floor.
jacoballen22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:34 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So true. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
PewPewChicken ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:02 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this once at kohl's and my mom was frantically looking for me. She heard me giggle and promptly took me outside and beat my ass (not literally).
The2500 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 15:17:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, it was the best I could do to stave off the agonizing boredom that was being dragged off to go clothes shopping.
ademnus ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:46:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when I was little, a shopping trip for clothes or furniture was like being trapped in an iron maiden. Today, I actually love furniture shopping -but even buying clothes for myself feels like torture.
TesticleMeElmo ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 17:29:34 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol "we're gonna take you furniture shopping" was literally a threat my parents used to use to make me behave. #whiteculture
GreatestOfAllTime96 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:41:19 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but you could lay down on all the couches and play with the big foam tvs
olithraz ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:16:19 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasnt allowed to sit on any of the furniture. Had to stand.
MoleMcHenry ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:43:42 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to do this. We'd pretend we were grown ups and talk about what we thought grown ups talked about like soap operas or Shelly down the street.
GreatestOfAllTime96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:45:12 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I admittedly still do this in Ikea sometimes
15DaysAweek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:24:17 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea. Fuck Shelly.
A_Windrammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:43 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you promised to behave, there might even be a reclining chair.
NorthBlizzard ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:33 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice tag, white guilt.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:30 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radical
everydayguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:05:09 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was never boring for me. I would "capture" other kids, grab them and pull them into my clothes rack, where I would slit their throat with my sharpened thumb nail, then proceed to eat their liver. Got a lot of good nutrition that way. Things were ruined when the manager found a dozen kid's bones in one of the racks, and the police were called out.
Coolbeanz7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:40:34 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to look at the department store as a maze that I could purposefully get myself lost in so that I could keep myself occupied by trying to find my way back again. EDIT I literally drew myself a map when I visited my Dad at work (IBM: massive official type building.) I recall one of the checkpoints being some creepy ass taxidermy.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:48 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Coolbeanz7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:04 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...so that was you huh? (jk)
PM_COFFEE_TO_ME ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 15:23:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this PLUS would try to stand next to the mannequins and pretend I was one. I tricked my mom a couple times (or she played along). Was fun though.
akatherder ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 16:10:32 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/cikl1ut.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/duVlix4.jpg
LogicalEmotion7 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:15:10 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the white guy in the back, right?
EggbroHam ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:50:56 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step one: Be attractive.
Step two: Actually trick people by posing as a mannaquin.
imnotquitedeadyet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow... I actually didn't realize it was the black guy in the first pic. I thought they were all mannequins for like a full minute
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:15:35 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also would find shirts that hung in the front of others, and would pretend to be dancing with them. Would drape one sleeve around my waist and hold up the other sleeve. Man I was a loser child.
jamasian ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:31:17 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of when I cracked my head...
When I was 5 and living in Miami my parents took my sister and I to the mall. We go to a clothing store like the picture above and my mom starts to rifle through some items, while my mom is occupied my sister and I begin to play tag and as I am chasing her, another girl around the same age starts to play with us. I start to chase the girl, she weaves in and out of the rack of clothes, I follow and as I exit I run head first into that big beige column.
Instantly I am blacked out for a few seconds, when I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by people with a pool of blood around me and blood dripping from my head. I see the girl walk away with her mom scolding her.
I end up in a hospital getting stitches, 1 year later, my family moves to Canada and I begin school, who's the first person I see as I walk into class? The girl my sister and I were playing tag with in Miami.
GraceAndMayhem ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:07:30 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that's wild. Did she remember you?
jamasian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:00:37 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, she did! It was nice because going to school, not knowing anyone and thinking how am I going make friends was getting me teared up and BAM! first day, I have an instant friend.
Wollem ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:14:46 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always loved hiding in these until one day when I got accosted by a woman who worked there saying if I didn't stop she was going to kick me out of the store and call the police. That's a pretty harsh thing to hear when you're like 7-years-old, or whatever young age I was at the time. Stopped all together after that; childhood ruined. Thanks lady.
jenybluth ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:48:05 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was sincerely hoping it would end with "that's a pretty harsh thing to hear when you're like 34-years old".
LetsShareAPaopuFruit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:28:30 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been there, brotha. My real brother and I had a guy get severely upset with us doing this and he even yelled at us. Seems so trivial. I can't really imagine getting mad at kids for something like this.
shoddydig ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:17 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever worked retail?? I deal with this shit all day and it's frustrating as fuck.
LetsShareAPaopuFruit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:13:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but kids going into the center of clothing racks and not misplacing anything doesn't bother me. If they were to, it wouldn't be a big deal. I'm doing mindless manual work wether or not they do that. Lets me have an excuse not to talk to customers.
TH3_GR3G ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:12:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember once I was at the clothing store with my mother and hid in one with pants on it to just mess around (although they were straight rather than circular). While I was just sitting there this older guy comes up and starts looking through and is making his way towards where I was. Faced with either being caught or making my escape I chose escape. When I stood up and hurried off I looked back at him and the confusion on his face was priceless.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:29:49 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would have been hilarious if you had handed him a pair of pants.
Deathcubek9001 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:44:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a blast hiding in these as a kid. One thing I used to do was wait for someone to browse the rack I was in, then slightly wiggle a shirt off the rack and whisper "pick me".
NailArtaholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:00 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to just jump out at people...wish I had thought of your idea!
ral251 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:44:57 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got lost in one at Walmart. Found an employee, they called my dad to the front with my crying my eyes out as he came to the front of the store
__--___---____---- ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:43:25 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lost in a clothes rack? Did you go to some knock-off Narnia?
ral251 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:09:41 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure felt like it
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:18:32 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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__--___---____---- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:15:19 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, it's me!
Helios-Apollo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:19 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone,
sit in JC Penny's enthroned,
the evil times will be over and done.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:37:44 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:25:51 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom would have had a good cry with me and took a swipe at anyone who had a problem with that. lol. My dad would have indeed been displeased (you're just like your mother!).
explainittomeplease ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:21 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a damn adorable response to the picture.
Shell831 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:06 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same. but at JC Penney
GraysonVoorhees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:37:43 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Same happened to me. When I came out my mom was gone. Cried my eyes out at the register while they called her name on the PA system.
marceline407 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:13:51 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going to Dillards or wherever and shopping for clothes with my mom still makes me drowsy to this day. Every time, I want to crawl in there, curl up and take a nap.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:25 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dillard's, wow that brings back memories.
Tomoweiner ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:46:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to pull clothes out and try to slyly hand it whoever was looking.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:54 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Rack has spoketh.
Rancor_Keeper ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:43:52 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....and when you grab the legs of the person you thought was your mom, but that of a complete stranger.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
le horror!!
YouDooDoo ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 01:12:02 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and then they grab your boner
Yuli-Ban ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:51 on December 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
formated4tv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:32:34 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if it's an everywhere store or a local store, but we have a Burlington's Coat Factory here (department store) that my younger brother and I used to always get drug to as kids.
We would go through all of the insides of these, take whatever we found on the floor, and then use it at home later for our action figure fights.
My button a.k.a. landmine armaments were intense after a long shopping day.
Clrmiok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:31:07 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool :-)
jenybluth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:37:29 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this once in the late 80s with my dad at Walmart. He freaked out and got store security because when he called my name I didn't come out. When they found me, he grabbed my arm and pulled me to the car. Some little old lady followed him because he was so mad (really he was more terrified somebody had taken me.) She told him she wanted to make sure he didn't beat me. My dad stopped turned to her and said "if you don't mind your own damn business you'll be next" he didn't spank me or anything we just went home. But I never hid in the clothes racks again.
Helios-Apollo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:50:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Your dad is the real OG.
Patches182 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:49 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anger issues much?
jenybluth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:31 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea he's a Vietnam Vet with severe P.T.S.D. so he occasionally gets hype.
iMakeItSeemWeird ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 14:15:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fapping in those clothes racks as a teenager.
TheMobHasSpoken ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 14:23:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living in those clothes racks as a homeless adult.
PM_COFFEE_TO_ME ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:24:44 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Making one of those clothes racks into a wheelchair as a disabled senior.
SHITTYANDUNFUNNY ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 15:32:03 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being guided to the afterworld by these clothes racks in death.
teelanovela ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 15:34:35 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being reborn as one of these clothes racks.
youlookdumbinabowtie ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:37:14 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falling in love with one of these clothes racks and raising tiny children's clothes racks together.
NSuave ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:55:11 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having those tiny children's clothes racks grow up and fapping inside bigger clothes racks
geistofsainttraft ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:25:14 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The circle of life?
el-toro-loco ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:29:38 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The circlejerk of life
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:08:22 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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jenybluth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:46:17 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good sign you were ready to be fully potty trained. When kids start wanting "privacy" that means they're forming an understanding of what they're doing and have actually developed the tools they need to detect when they have to go. And you we're probably in pull-ups because you would still have accidents. Easier to change a dirty pull-up than an entire outfit.
YouDooDoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:11 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what do you do, just hang around all day watching kids and waiting for them to take a dump? sick freak.
jenybluth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:16 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much. I was a nanny so yea that sums it up nicely.
YouDooDoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:38 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nasty. just nasty. I bet you save their meconium too and rub it on your face before bed every night.
jenybluth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:15 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg... are you looking through my window???
soxy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:58:55 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom called store security to find me in one of these once.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:16:34 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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GraceAndMayhem ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 15:37:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what's the reason? I feel like I'm missing something. Aren't little boys and girls equally capable of being abducted? When I was a little girl I hid in these at every possible opportunity.
Seizure_Party ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:19:12 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saaaame. It was the best. Both of my sisters did it too.
None of us got abducted, so I think maybe that was just something a parent told her.
GraceAndMayhem ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:41 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be. We're all working with anecdotal evidence, but I'm pretty sure hiding in small spaces and being sneaky is universally appealing to all children.
BBA935 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:37:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what?!?!? How?!?!? I use to do this. How would a girl get abducted? If you are hiding in those things, it's odd anyone would find you. I get the worry, but in the 70's and 80's boys were getting raped like crazy too.
I'm not calling bullshit, but I'm interested in a more detailed explanation to why she thinks this.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:11:05 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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-SagaQ- ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:38:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah no. Pretty sure she was just parroting something helicopter mom said to her.
homesickalienz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:33 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But little boys and girls dont form that situational awareness unless someone else gives them that information.
The2500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, I could see it happening but I've never heard of that happening before, abductors going into clothes stores and searching for kids in those racks.
notaveryhappycamper ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:23:38 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really makes no sense. What's the logic, a guy is searching through the clothes, sees a kid and goes "... Well he's on the rack, guess I'm allowed to take him"?
formated4tv ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:31:16 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Ma'am, it says here he's 70% off, and everything must go. Are you telling me I can't buy him for $3?"
TexanDreamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:39 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't hide in these, my mother would've whooped me. Not because of kidnapping...
texastopher01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:08:25 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True story! I fell asleep inside one of these when I was a kid. Mom panicky and calls store security, mall security, and police. After about 45 minutes my mother kept circling the the area where she last saw me. She decided to start looking inside the racks and there I was napping!!
Andrew985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:52 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do this all the time and then one time when I was 5 my dad just continued shopping and let me wander around lost in Target for like 20 minutes.
I never strayed again.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smooth maneuver on his part. No kid like being lost hehe
CANT_TRUST_ISIS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:30 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely caused a store-wide lock down once when I took one of those simple handheld video games from the toy section and hid in a clothes rack for a LONG time. An employee eventually found me and practically dragged me to the front, where my mom screamed in grief-stricken glee and then promptly grounded me for life.
PurpleLee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:46 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, man, it certainly brings back memories. I was the worst big sister, I would hide in those, and watch my little sister panic. She fell for it every time, my mom would just shake her head.
twirlwhirlswirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:35 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working retail when kids did this was a pain. Even better was when a kid would injure themselves and the parents blamed the store and stuck us with the Doctor bill. Good times.
Tomes2789 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:07 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so when I was very young (born in '89, so early 90s), I was a troublemaker apparently, and my parents tried one of those child-leash things for the first, and last, time in a department store with these racks.
According to my dad, I went and ran to hide and play in one of these racks (as I was wont to do), and I was on the leash, and apparently I got completely tangled myself in the rack, and the store security had to come and it took about 10 minutes for them to free me.
According to my dad, that was the last time they ever tried the child leash on me.
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:13 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just lay down on the floor and screamed until my mum took it off. I'm still proud of toddler me for winning that battle. Knowing my luck though, if I had complied she probably would have used it until I was far too old for it and I already looked a few years older then I was.
311TruthMovement ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gettin high AF on the finishes put on those clothes in some hellish Vietnamese factory.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:41 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol! Yeah they always had that smell
guaxinim1092 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:45 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a Nordstrom rack and holy shit, there were so many kids hiding in those things. They love to pop out and scare customers lol
Clrmiok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:35:59 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had to post again forgot to add a story :-) a few years back I was shopping at a department store, now a fully grown up person, and I parted a rack of shirts and there was a little kid standing there all big eyed staring back at me. I couldn't help but laugh and just smiled and closed the close back up leaving him there lol! So very many times I hid like that and very rarely was I found. Just cracked me up to see that kid standing there, he had to be like 5-6 yrs old. I knew just how he felt
rabidpeacock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:37:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fell asleep hiding in one of those. Parents were furious and relieved. I blame them. They spent hours shopping how can they expect a kid not to get bored.
Zanki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know right! Mum would take me shopping every single week. Same routine. Get there, get a MacDonalds, go to the toy store so I could get a cheap Matchbox/Hot Wheels car then it was time for mum to shop for a good couple of hours. Of cause kid me got bored and thought hiding in the clothes racks was fun. Shame they don't have them like that anymore in the UK. I loved them, but I guess stores got rid of them for a good reason, kids.
pileofburningchairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:17 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also a good place for an employee to take a nap when you're supposed to be vacuuming the store before it opens.
ghroat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:04:29 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and collecting the little sizing cubes
highrun00 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:31:31 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, until your mom beats your ass for that shit.
Sex-Watcher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:07 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got yelled at for hiding in those with my sister from a sales associate. "This isn't a playground!"
Kellianne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:27 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a young adult I worked at JCPenney's and while dusting the rack tops I get the shit scared out of me by a kid hiding in a rack. I didn't yell at him though. I thought it was pretty funny. His mom saw and yelled at him :(
Zanki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were these two little kids playing tag in a store I worked in years ago. Apart from me they were the only ones up there and I was quite happy to let them play as long as they didn't go too wild and hurt themselves. I remember what it was like being a bored kid shopping. I was giving them hints were the other was hiding and somehow I became part of their game as they used me as den. Their dad wasn't very impressed when he caught them but they cheered me up (awful job) and I talked to their dad for a while. Nice family.
ghost_mv ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:29 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My kids still do this whenever my wife insists that we all go with her shopping.
breakdown1979 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:07 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in my late teens early twenties, I worked at Pacific Sunwear. When it was slow, I would hide in the rounders, hop out and scare the shit out of customers. I really enjoyed working there.
eaglewatch1945 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:54 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Attention employees: we have a code Adam. Repeat: a code Adam. Six year old boy last seen wearing a red Elmo shirt, navy shorts, and red Crocs. Last seen in Misses Betters."
Thrillz559 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:10 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Chucky, so be careful
makel2002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:43 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a kid?
irs_hitmab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun story, I hid in these and my mom thought I was kidnapped. There are plain clothes officers that work at Target and I guess that were looking for me. They almost locked the store down!
But I wanted some of that sweet Target popcorn so I came out
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mum called security on me when I was eight or nine. I used to sit in the kids shoe area of the store and just play on my Gameboy. One week they had moved the section so naturally I just went to look for where they moved it. It wasn't far away and I just sat down where I had told my mum I would be. She goes to find me and I had my headphones in, playing on my Gameboy and I heard a faint call but didn't think much of it. A few minutes later I see a security guard run past me. No big deal, then I heard the your in trouble yell of my name over my headphones. I got up and wandered over to where I had heard her. Man, she was pissed at me for not being where I should have been. I told her I was exactly where I said I was, the section had just moved. Not a good excuse according to her. Turns out she had the entire store looking for me, hadn't bothered to ask them where the section was now though. My days of sitting while she went clothes shopping were over for a while.
Miu_K ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:27 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always did that when I became really bored. I did it again when I was 11-12.
hmd27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:08 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom and my aunt finally learned to stop dragging my cousin and me out shopping every damn weekend. We would hide and not respond to them, turn off the escalators (little red button), and make paperclip guns with rubber bands and shoot people in the asses when they bent over for items.
I learned at a young age that rebelling was a great way to protest things I hated being forced to do.
TrumpPaul2016 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:19 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this in a Florida department store when I was little (around 5 or6). The entire circular top was solid glass. Needless to say I toppled it over and the entire glass circle almost landed on top of me. Probably would have done some serious damage.
krose0206 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:14 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was the best fun ever!!! My 7yr old inner child has spoken.
Clrmiok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:55 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Omg i did that every single time my mom went shopping. Never ran into any other kids in there :-) m mom would get so mad cause she'd find me by hearing some lady get scared when she parted the clothes and saw me standing there. I'd also crawl into the bottom of the displays, when they had those sliding doors below for extra stock. Good to see someone else was just as goofy. I still hate shopping and as a woman that's kinda weird. Thanks for the memories!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:38 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every fucking time my daughter does this and every fucking time I freak out for a second thinking I lost her.
tdvx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hid in one in a Caldor's, despite my mom calling my name I kept quiet to prank her until the store was locked down and police brought in for a potential kidnapping. Don't remember it but I probably got a good beating that night.
wetwater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:39 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, wandering more than 10 feet away was enough for me to get a beating, no hiding in racks required.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:36 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean as a kid?
lava172 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:10 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hid in those when I went to the mall with my mom then when I went to Home Depot I'd pretend I was on a construction site or something and hide in the aisles of lumber
cait_o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:03 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom used to get scared shitless when I did that. Now I get scared shitless when my daughter does it. it's the circle of life
Mitochondria420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:14 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this as a kid and it was great. My kids do it now and it pissed me off to no end. What goes around comes around I guess.
TraumaJuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:14 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was hiding from my sister in one of these when I was 5, I ended up falling asleep waiting for her to find me and they shut down the Macy's because my parents couldn't find me.
EVOSexyBeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:07 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Vairman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:01 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son would do this to me when we'd go shopping. He's slip into one of those so fast I'd never even see it happen. The first couple of times it scared me to death - I was convinced he'd been kidnapped of course. Which he thought was the funniest thing ever, the little shit. I should have sold him to those gypsies like I wanted to but his mom wouldn't let me. dammit.
ssj58trunks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:11 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember doing this and a group of people shopping moved the clothes and found me there just hiding. They burst out laughing and I had no idea why.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:26 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was simply the best part of shopping. Especially the resale stores! They choice of fabrics and designs were much superior to retail stores, which made it much more fun.
svperstarr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:44 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had THREE older sisters so I spent more time doing this then prolly anyone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:57 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son did the same thing when he was a kid. He is 43 now. I wonder if he still does this.
InfiniteZr0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my dreams was getting in one of those and finding a mini tv playing cartoons
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:28 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does one mean, as a kid?
AllGoldGold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:28 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was hiding in one of these when I was like 5 and I knocked the whole thing over. Some piece of metal snagged my finger and tore a strip of skin of my finger from my palm to the tip of my finger. A nice lady gave me a teddy bear though.
Wutwhywho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:40 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you suggesting we all dress like kids and hide in clothes racks?
Trident1000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:24 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still do this....in the women's section.
EnergeticDisassembly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:11 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would get whipped with the belt for that shit. Still me and my sis did it every time.
KY_Jelly_Donut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:28 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put K-Mart on lock down by hiding in one of these when I was 5.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:56 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/m4xsojc
Backflip_into_a_star ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:32 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Collecting those plastic pins too.
ne0b0rn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:35 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Squeaker shoes solved that problem as a parent of kids that loved to hide, though subsequently BC they all fit attacked by dogs : p
quidam08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:36 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knocked one of these over as a child
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:55 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a small lad, the other bored-out-of-their-wits kids and me would play fort in those things....go on a department/store wide pranking spree, that was one path to Aladdin's Castle.
Boneykingz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:15 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dens
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:49:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My little brother was doing this. Then he got a hanger caught in his eyelid and has his eyelid essentially ripped off. It was dangling. Ugh ew.
Hewhodont ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:30 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god fucking no!!!! The one fucking time I hid in one of these as a kid my mom starting having a panic attack and thought she had lost me or I had been kidnapped. She started tearing the store apart and got just about all the people that worked there to start looking for me. At that point I was scared shitless of what was going on, so I just continued to hide in one of those. I think it was about 10-20 minutes to they found me. I didn't get in trouble but I'll be dammed if that didn't scar 7 year old me so bad that even to this day I don't even fucking dare reach my arm into one of those. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THAT FUCKING MEMORY.
_heisenberg__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:23 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom thought someone kidnapped me once. Store went on lockdown. Took me a while to realize how serious the situation was.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:01 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knocked myself out my running straight into one of these as a kid 26yrs ago! If this had happened today, my parents could have sued!
coffeeposer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:45 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My parents owned retail shops in the 80s and my little brother and I would play in those clothing racks. I liked hiding in them and jumping out to scare customers. One of our stores had a creepy attic full of mannequins. My brother and I used to dare each other to stay locked in there as long as we could. I still have the occasional nightmare about it 30 years later.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:56 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom used to drag us to those stores seemingly for hours on end. I would pick up the pins off the floor and push them through the skin in my palms, like you would of you were sewing something. Freaked the other moms out. I guess it helped my immune system
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:42 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I would hide in these and whisper "Pick me... Pick meee" when people would walk by. I sure knew how to have fun... and weird people out
shittyartist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:23 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just thinking about this. What a blissful time.
Lameassduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:43 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was three, my parents shut down the Sears tower in Chicago because they lost me. I was hiding in one of these racks beside the register they were at and I didn't come out because I was a sneaky asshole.
BorisBC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:53 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did that once when I wanted to go to the toy section and my mum wouldn't let me. She did the "I'm leaving now" thing and I didn't follow. I then get lost and can't find her. So smart guy me goes out to the car park to wait at the car.
Can't find the car.
So super smart me decides they have left me there and I decide to walk the 10km home. I get home a couple of hours later to find the cops there and my mum freaking out that I'd been abducted. I was not a smart child.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, you can still do that. You may seem creepy, but, ya know, whatever, right?
nullpassword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:03 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hiding in these clothes racks as an adult.
forgettingfreddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:49 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dat Nordstrom Rack though
ianamls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:53 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All fun and games until you're a jerk child and shut down a small Wisconsin mall because you hid and everyone thinks you've been kidnapped. No? Just me?
adiorulz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:25 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you taking about as a kid? When did only kids get to do this?
gmikoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:16 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And posing as a manikin and hoping your mom didn't notice you
sol6an0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:19 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spent 20 mins looking for a kid in this pic, and still i have no idea why
BarHavoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:11 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then getting a job at the same store later as a teen and having to dust those racks... I've never wanted to crawl under one and hide more in my entire like. Shit wasn't a game anymore fam
Coolbeanz7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:12 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha yes!!!! I wonder how many kids scared the bejeezus out of padestrians at thrift stores because they were searching for a blouse and got some kid's hand instead?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:19 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I'm a Mom those things are the bane of my existence if I ever take my kid into a store.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:17 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit you did that to!
Bananafoofoofwee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:22 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Freaked out my mom when I did that as a kid and wouldn't answer to her calling.
DeftSparkles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:59 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We used to find pins on the floor and stick them through the top layer of skin on our fingers. We were Wolverine!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:44 on September 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend and I had sex in one of these recently.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:53 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hiding in these clothes racks as a human*
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:58 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just wondering if there's a sub for nostalgia yesterday. Thanks to r/all new algorithm i've found it (because im too lazy to look).
Blakbeanie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:40 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nordstrom Rack at Park and Preston in Plano, TX?
-SagaQ- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:15 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong. This is the men's department.
h4wkeyepierce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:06 on June 19, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My twin brother and I were kept on leashes when we were 2 or 3, but we learned how to let each other out.
We got out one time and they had to lock down an entire JCPenney to find us.
We were hiding underneath clothes racks "playing hide and go seek".
Zanki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on June 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could escape my push chair at that age and I would hide inside the racks as well. Used to drive my mum insane. I remember using my fingers and little nails to get myself out.
Mum likes to tell this story and I have vague memories of it. We were in a clothes store and I vanished. When she eventually found me I was inside a clothing rack with another little boy and we both had lolly pops. She guessed the other kid had given it to me. She used to get so mad at me over it but I was just a little kid and escaping her was my main objective at that age. She attempted to use a leash on me once. She told me I lay face down on the floor and just screamed until she took it off. Zanki 1, Mum 0! Good to know I was just a normal bored kid though.
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