What is the most humiliated you have been in a shop?

Question

mine was today, went to pay for something with my debit card and it was rejected in front of a load of people in the queue (snotty guy behind the counter as well), went to the bank to sort it out and it was a problem they had made

Answer 1

I took a shirt back to M&S and demanded my money back because it was faulty. I ranted on about the crap quality (I'd had a bad day) and was then told the shirt was from BHS. I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me!

Answer 2

Relax and take it easy - it happens with everybody. I wasn't excactly humiliated in a shop but a Thai restaurant in Brooklyn, NY and yes, I had simply forgotten my wallet and was alone in taking the meal. The waitresses and manger were kind enough to let me go WITHOUT any Insult after I convinced them that it was a genuine mistake. I did pay back the entire amount along with tip the following day.

We are all humans, and if we don't forgive each other noone else will.

Answer 3

Oh gosh, embarrassing. I had a similar thing in the check-out at Tesco, where my husband had taken some money out of my purse and not put the purse back in my handbag. Luckily I'd seen someone I knew, so I had to go & find her, and ask her to pay for my shopping.

But the most humiliating was when I was trying on some cowboy boots. I said to the assistant about it being odd that they had the fancy stitching on the inside of the leg, rather than the outside. She looked closer, then told me I'd got them on the wrong feet. She walked away, and was laughing with her mate. I took them off and walked out, red-faced.

Answer 4

I wrote a check, and the machine said "call supervisor". So, the clerk called the store manager over. They submitted my check into the machine 3 times, altogether. Rejected. I had to use a credit card to buy my items.

I went to the bank, and the lady there checked my account. There wasn't anything wrong with my checks. She typed up a letter for the store manager. He wouldn't read it, wouldn't deal with me.

From then on, I went to another store. They use the exact same system to process checks, and mine have always gone thru it with no problem at all. Something wrong with the store's own computers.
And I was really happy when that manager was replaced in that store.

Answer 5

It was when my son picked up the biggest jar of pickled onions I had ever seen and chucked it up in the air as high as he could, everybody around ducked for cover as it came to the floor with a big crash an pickled onions went flying all over the place. I walked away from the situation, not owning up to him being my son, he soon caught up with us though looking really embarrassed himself, he's never done it again since, thank goodness.

Answer 6

Possibly when I was sitting in McDonalds and this guy was walkiing by and his tray was overloaded and he had a banana milkshake balanced right on the edge, and it promptly fell on my head. I was 12.
Or, I went into this shop which sells fair trade goods, I have a disability, but I earn good money. I told her what I wanted to buy and she told me I wouldn't be able to afford it, at that time I probably made more money than her. I was more angry than humiliated though.

Answer 7

Shopping in a large super-store with my daughter about 2 years old hunting all over for something and saw people were looking at me and smirking. I looked down and my daughter had undone all my buttons on my shirt. I have never felt so embarrassed in my life again. Once i saw a female i did not like much who used to school with me, i tried to avoid her but she followed me i quickly took my mobile out of my bag and pretended i was talking on it while she is waiting to talk to me when the mobile started ringing. She just turned around and walked away , i felt quite bad , i must say. Another time we were fishing off a boat and i was wearing a boob-tube costume , as i lifted my rod to cast the whole costume just went rolling down all the way right down to my stomach, never ever wear a boob-tube if you are going to lift your hands in any way.

Answer 8

A friend and I were shoplifting when we were teenagers.
I leaned over to him without looking and said,"its ok its not belled up",Meaning the stainless steel flask I wanted wasnt wired into the shoplift alarm.
Someone just burst out laughing...
I turned to my side to realise my friend had wandered off And I was telling it to a stranger.


I had to come back and steal it another day..

Answer 9

I was paying for groceries when my then 4 year old daughter yells out which seemed like the loudest voice possible "mommy I gotta poop" I wasso embaressed and there was so many people around.

Answer 10

I took a pair of mini speakers back to the shop to complain that they didn't work, and the assistant pointed out with a smirk that I hadn't switched them on!