This article appears in Dec 4-10, 2008.
BAD SERVICE
RECENTLY MY SON WENT INTO THE DOLLAR STORE IN PARK LANE TO LOOK AT BANDANAS AND WHILE HE WALKED AROUND THE STORE A SALESCLERK FOLLOWED HIM AND THEN WENT AND GOT THREE OTHER SALESCLERKS TO DO THE SAME. WHY? ALL HE WANTED WAS TO BY SOME BANDANAS AND ENDED
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Can’t you contribute anything useful like ever, J?
“I don’t get it? Who is Butta? Didn’t anybody tell him my nickname is “Fucking Bitch” and that I earned it well?Floyd, read the OP again, You’d NEVER write something that cool for me. Go fuck yourself again and again.”kayUseful like that?
Whether you want to accept it or not, there are a lot of teenagers who do steal. While I don’t agree that four sales clerks should have been following him around, I do think a business has the right to protect itself from a group most likely to lift something. Park Lane is full of teens during lunch – I’m not surprised the owners of this store is paranoid.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH DOLLAR STORE, NOW THAT MY SON HAS 7 BANDANAS HE IS 7 TIMES MORE HAPPY. HE AND HIS FRIENDS WILL HAVE LOTS OF FUN WITH THE 7 BANDANAS.
“I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!!!” Shhhh….caps lock doesn’t drive the point home any clearer.
Not all students are thieves. Can you tell which ones are and which ones are not?What do you expect the store and its clerks to do? They get a lot of stuff stolen from them and there is no real way of telling what type of person is stealing. I do not blame them, what else can be done to deter thefts? Yeah it sucks, but that is life. Bitching about may help you, but it is not going to change a thing. The world is a fucked-up place with a lot of fucked up people. It will only get worse before it gets better. How do you know your son is not one of those fucked-up individuals that steals ????
Not to mention the fact that since he’s buying bandanas, he’s probably dressed up like a g-thug, reppin’ his ‘hood.
LOL @ this bullshit waste of space bitch. Why the fuck does your son need 7 bandanas anyways? Is he stocking up to sell them on ebay for profit when they are impossible to find in stores this Christmas? Do your son a favor and tell him to stop wearing fucking bandanas.
Hey J. Get a life.
Kay! My favorite opinionated cunt. How’s the holiday shopping going?
*EDIT*My favorite opinionated, extremely LONG-WINDED cunt is what I orginally meant to type. (Please see the fatty fat fat cheesecake bitch for reference.)Truly,
As someone who works in retail, unfortunately a lot of the people who steal ARE teenagers. I don’t appreciate being treated like crap in a store just because I’m young either, but it’s understandable. I always have teenage boys coming into my store and sneering at me as they guffaw and tuck things into their pockets. Maybe your son isn’t one of them, and that’s a good thing. But unfortunately, I also know that a lot of parents are dimwits who don’t realize what brats their kids can really be.
Not only G thugs wear bandanas- cancer patients do too
THIS BITCH WAS PUT IN BY ME AND NO MY SON DOES NOT STEAL, HE HAS A JOB YOU FUCKING PILE OF IDIOTS. HE IS NOT A THUG AND IF HE WANTS TO HAVE 7 SEVEN BANDANAS HE WILL. AND J THIS IS A BITCH COLUMN NOT A BULLYING ONE SO FUCK OFF AND GET A LIFE OR BETTER YET DROP DEAD.
Whoaaaa.Someone needs to calm down a bit. Sheesh, Marie.
The internet is serious business, I thought that was common knowledge.
Fuck Marie, do you know caps lock turns off? Or act older than 12?
BANADANAS ARE FOR HIPPIES, MOLLY MAIDS, AND THUGS. POLAR OPPOSITES, BUT THERE YOU GO. EITHER WAY YOUR SON IS FUCKING DOUCHEBAG JUST LIKE YOU MARIE, AND I’D FOLLOW HIS NASTY HIP-HOPPIE MOPPIN’ ASS AROUND MY STORE TOO BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE RAPPIN’, SCRUBBIN, PATCHOULI-STANKIN’ SKANKS STEALIN’ MY SHIT, YO!
JAMMIE YOU ARE A FUCKING GODAMM STUPID FUCKING LAZY WELFARE SCUM FUCKING PIECE OF FUCKING GARBAGE WHO NEEDS TO GET A FUCKING LIFE .
Marie – you are a bad tempered tit – you just don’t get it – a lot of teens steal, idiot woman, what makes you think a clerk can distinguish one who steals from one who doesn’t? You’re probably one of those mothers who think their kid can do NOTHING wrong, even if they were to murder an entire city block.. Get a clue, you silly woman, you really don’t know what happened unless you were right there. If you believe every word that comes out of your precious boy’s mouth, you’re stupider than I thought.
Marie,Just give up. You’re getting destroyed here…
AND RUNNERS, JAMMIE. DON’T FORGET RUNNERS AND OTHER ATHLETES. WE WEAR BANDANAS TOO. NOBODY WANTS OUR SWEATY ASSES IN THEIR STORES EITHER. BUT FOR SOME REASON THEY DON’T FOLLOW US AROUND TOO CLOSELY!NOW GO FUCK SOME SCUM, YOU SCUM FUCKING WELFARE SCUM!
TTFN AND J YOU SHOULD CALL THE DOLLAR STORE IN PARK LANE AND FIND OUT FOR YOUSELVES WHAT HAPPENED. IF THIS HAPPENED IN BC THE CLERK WOULD BE FIRED. AND WHILE YOU 2 ARE AT IT WHY DONT YOU ASK THE CLERK AT THE DOLLAR STORE AT PARK LANE ABOUT THE TIME THEY STRIPPED A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAD A BIG COAT ON JUST BECAUSE THE STUPID CLERK SAID IF YOU WEAR A BIG COAT YOU ARE A THIEF, LUCKY THE CLERK WAS FIRED AND THE YOUNG WOMAN TOOK IT TO COURT.
Yeah, right, I’m going to run right up to Park Lane and ask them such ridiculous questions. They have a right to protect their property and if so many fucking teens weren’t so light fingered, your son would not have been followed. You just can’t seem to cut any slack for these underpaid clerks but you seem to cut plenty for your precious baby boy and his seven bandanas. By the way, the only kids I’ve seen wearing those things were the little thugs who pull them over their faces and are up to no good. I wonder just how well you really know your kid.
I’m actually a member at the Park Lane Nubody’s and visit that Dollar Store on a regular basis after my workout ($1.23 Powerade… woot!). I’ll ask the ladies if they recall the incident with your little hood rat Marie. Their entire staff consists of 4 ladies who have always been very pleasant in my experiences. We’ll have a chat next time i’m up that way, i’ll see if I can get the scoop on what really went down with your bandana baby bitch boy…Cheers,
Marie is a real piece of work, I can imagine what her son is like. Open your eyes and shut your mouth. I guarantee you’ll learn more.
Dear Marie,Obviously you have heard the expression “one bad apple spoils the bunch”…. It’s not that your child is a theif, but if he fits the profile of a certain demographic who has a bad reputation for stealing, well, it sucks to be him. get over it
YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC AND A BUNCH OF RACISTS WHO JUDGE TEENS BUT NOT ADULTS. PEOPLE IN BC HAVE ALOT MORE RESPECT FOR TEENS. YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT WORTH MY TIME AND TO THE 4 SALECLERKS STOP JUDGING TEENS AND START TREATING EVERY CUSTOMER WITH RESPECT. YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED. HALIFAX IS ONE BAD CITY FOR RACISM.
Seriously Marie – turn off the caps lock. It’s inappropriate to type in all caps all the time.
Marie, it’s not fucking racism just because your kid is a teenager. Learn what the words you use mean before you spit them out in your angst-ridden, ineffectual rhetoric.
Wait, Marie what do you mean by “you people”? How racist. ( this is the over used word of the day isn’t it? )
Just a question…why do you keep comparing Halifax to BC? Why do you think something this “horrible” would never happen there? You hold it in such high regard…why don’t you go live there?
The racist remark makes absolutely no sense, Marie, especially SINCE WE CAN’T FUCKING SEE YOU OR YOUR PRECIOUS BOY! What I’d like to know is what your kid said to these women – that you’ll never know, moron, because all you have is his say-so. You will just blindly believe that your little sweetums is totally innocent in all this but there are TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY! Mothers like you make me want to retch.
TTFN LISTEN UP GOOOOOOOOOOOOO TO HELL AND LEAVE MY WIFE ALONE.
If you think BC has it over Halifax, do us a favour and move there. Halifax is a great place, you know what makes it suck – people like you. You seem to protest a bit too much on your sons behalf, wonder why that is….If he had nothing to be worried about then why leave the store? Stay and buy the bandanas and prove the sales clerks wrong. Leaving just gave the impression that the clerks were right to follow him around – if really indeed 4 clerks had nothing better to do. You think you’re doing your son a favour by getting so worked up over something so small – but really what you’re doing is re-enforcing the misplaced notion that kids have free reign and they are accountable to no one for anything – Wrong!! What you should have done is sent him right back in there to buy the bandans and explained to him that while you know he isn’t out to rip anyone off – there are people out there – teens and adults that will try to steal. There was a greater lesson to give your son and you missed it.
MARIE (AND HUSBAND NOW TOO I GUESS?), ARE YOU WEARING BANDANAS WHILE YOU TYPE YOUR ANGRY RESPONSES?
If your wife wanted to be left alone, then I suggest she not post her inter-most feelings about mean ole Halifax and how we’re so awful to her boy, in a public forum. If she’s that offended and longs to have someone agree with everything she’s said, call the store manager, make a formal complaint – then she can listen with satisfaction as they offer a most sincere apology for singling out her son. If the clerks had left the boundaries of the Dollar store and proceeded to follow him around the rest of the mall and out into the street, then fine, stoke the fires you’ve got a legitimate issue, until then, they were well within their rights – and I’d expect – the rules of the business to help protect against shoplifting.
Halifax is bad for racism because your son wanted to buy a ridiculous amount of bandanas and somebody kept an eye on him because he’s a teenager? Swell argument, that.Also, having your husband step in to defend you (also in Caps Lock) was hilariously immature. If you didn’t have a teenage son I would swear you were fifteen years old, Marie.
Hey, Marie, I AM IN FUCKING HELL so tell your husband to go stuff his scotum up his nose.
“Halifax is bad for racism because your son wanted to buy a ridiculous amount of bandanas and somebody kept an eye on him because he’s a teenager?”Right on, Adi.
just watch and see tomorrows headline on the news will be “seven teens covering their faces in bandanas beat up old lady and steals her groceries”the store workers have every right to watch people when they enter!
Hawhawhawhawhaw…good one, lalala.
I LIKE SHOUTING TOO
I was actually thinking “Marie” is a pseudonym, and is ACTUALLY our bandana-boy whose attempt to get some “justice” backfired… You know, those scurrilous scalliwags in bandanas can’t be trusted…On the other hand, maybe “Marie” is just upset because her son bought 7 bandanas in different colours because he’s learning the underground bandana symbols to let other gay boys he’s a) a top, b) a bottom, c) either top or bottom depending, d)a leatherman, e)a bear-lover f) a pansy-ass queen boy, g) one of the other things having a bandana put on your person means in the gay community…(Oh, and before anyone jumps on the “gay symbols” idea I posted, it’s a well-known fact, that just like in the days of the underground railroad, gays have used symbols to covertly “advertise” for both fun and safety.)
There sure is a lot of pointless swearing in here. I’m glad we have a forum for the cream of society to vent their anger at a store clerk in all-caps.
—Oh, not that any of the responses are pure genius, either, tho…
Wow, between this and the anti-jew/muslim thread I had forgotten how much of a backwater NS still is.
MARIE I’LL GET A LIFE AND AS SOON AS I SEE YOUR PUSSYBOY SON WEARING HIS YELLOW BANDANA IN HIS POCKET TO SIGNIFY HIS INTEREST IN BEING PEED ON BY HOT OLDER GUYS, I WILL SPREAD THA LIFE AROUND A LITTLE. ON HIS FACE. NOW GO WASH YOUR ANUS – WE CAN SMELL YOUR NASTY BREATH!!!
Go Jammie Go…And Kay… I am not J… But I am absolutely thrilled to know that you still think of me… I’ll bet you still dream about me at night you fucking troll…
Jammie, just make sure he’s wearing that yellow bandana in his right pocket as the left would mean he’s a top and you’d be the receiver
NSITC – yes I googled it before posting, and wow all those combinations. I wasn’t quite sure what all of them meant but yellow seemed appropos. But I must say this taught me that being gay wouldn’t be all hot tub parties and Sunday brunch after all. There’s a lot to remember; it would be a pile of work!
Actually, the yellow bandana means he’s into golden showers.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ok_SM-aSb4
Sweet Marie,You should cease your concern of Liquidation Mall Nazis stalking your poor innocent child (I’m sorry – what was his name again? Bambi or was it Jesus?) Your larger problem is this young mans obvious style choices. Yellow Bandana at a Dollar Store? Please sit him down and discuss how his future will be shaped partially by his appearance and fashion sense.Don’t let him wander down this path.. first banana colored head gear – what’s next? Purple thongs at a flea market? Tie-dye wife beaters from rural hippie yard sales?You can’t live his life or be there with him every minute, but when you look at him in 30 years as he pours you a Screech and Big 8 while wearing a three piece mauve cord tuxedo that has been obviously “Bedazzled” you’ll have nobody but yourself to blame.And that’s my Dolla Dolla Bitch Yo
Floyd, you go get a life too. Holy cow. This town is chalk full of creeps bullies. Count yourself IN
Judging from some of the comments here some of you are very immature. For one thing he was right in leaving the Buck or Two and going to their other location, odd though that this happened in one location and not the other. For the second thing adults do stealand for the third thing what if he had been at Sobeys do all the cashiers leave the registers to follow him around the store. and just to be smart tomorrow before work I am going into the Buck or Two with a bandana and a big coat and a Sobeys reuseable green and see what happens.
What I don’t get is how long was this kid in the store “looking at bandanas” that he got 4 store clerks “following him around”. They don’t have a very extensive bandana section in that store. They are there beside the doo-rags and the discount rain ponchos. They aren’t that hard to find either, the store isn’t that big. If he really wanted to buy Bandanas, why not ask the clerk where they are, instead of wandering around? or why not just buy their bandanas when you find them and move on? Even from the mom’s story, it sounds like the kid was probably lurking around the store long enough to attract some attention. And I don’t believe there were 4 people following the kid around that little store. Imagine them all, hanging out in the bandana isle trying to look like they are stocking shelves instead of stalking customers…right.
I’m black.I wear an old t-shirt and sweats almost everywhere I go.I also worked at a store and owned my own small store years back untill I got tired of it. The thing you glean as a store owner is that certain activities more often than not mean you are up to something.If a person hovers around a particular area fixing their pocket, more often than not they are making sure they have room to put something in it. If they circle too much and try to look out the corner of their eye, they are up to no good. However, if they keep touching the item and pausing, they might be trying to calculate how much shit is going to cost and if they have enough money for it.That boy probably was exhibiting typical five finger discount tendancies.And if he was hoveirng around too much then the tactic is to go to him, pretend to be helpful and try to make a sale, if he walks away, fuck him, you did your job, if he buys something, good, you did your job.If you don’t like being watched, do shop for anything.And sobeys cashiers don’t hunt people, they have plain clothes security agents who’s job is to follow people around acting as shoppers. So even then you are being watched.
I am the uncle of the boy. He went into the store and saw 2 clerks chatting and they peeked around the corner at him, and they went to the short grey haired cashier and the man with dark hair who was at the cash also and all 4 came up to him and asked what he wanted and my nephew told them. The short grey haired cashier said we dont have and to leave. My nephew told me and his parents the other customers gave the clerks strange looks. My nephew then took the bus to the other Buck or Two in west end mall and found the bandanas no problem and asked how much they were and bought 7 to wear to school like his friends do for style and takes the off when he goes to work. That was his first trip to the store in Park Lane since it was near his school and it will be his last trip there, the service at west end mall was much better so he now shops there. His mom is my sister and she is still very upset about this and has emailed the store but no response from them.
He probably had to buy 7 because most of the stuff you buy in these stores is offshore crap that shouldn’t even be used as ballast, let a lone sold on a shelf..Unc, That being said, if he had nothing to hide, then suck it up and don’t go back… If he wears bandannas for “style” maybe he needs to find a new style.
SO lame…who cares why he wanted to buy 7 bandannas? Maybe he wanted different colours. People can buy whatever they want and have whatever style they want. It’s for them, not you. What does what he was buying have to do with this bitch? Can someone please tell me? Obviously the employees at the second store he visited would have acted similarly if he was actually so threatening? How is it reasonable for FOUR employees to follow someone around? That’s practically harrassment, which last time I checked was not their JOB. Even if they did suspect him of stealing how does it take four people to determine that?So many questions, wonder how many answers I’ll get.