Yesterday, I discovered that it can be dangerous to shop at Target.
…wearing a red shirt.
I was walking along, minding my own business. I had been re-listening to season 1 of Gregg Taylor’s character Martin Bracknell’s radio play Black Jack Justice (one of my favorite latter-day online radio series). I had paused my smartphone’s podcast player and removed my earbuds, and was poking through my email, when a guy walked up to me.
“Hi. How’re ya’ doin’?”
“Hi. I’m fine.” Me, suspicious, interrupted.
“Do you work here?”
“No.”
“Oh. Sorry.”
Then his friend called to him, “Hey, I think it’s over there.”
And the kicker: he was wearing a red shirt, too.
Where is a bona fide red-shirt when you need one?
-TimK
P.S. Okay, so maybe not quite as dangerous as I originally implied. But enjoy these red-shirted photos anyhow:
Did you see that cool trick someone played on Best Buy. He got a couple dozen people wearing blue shirts to just roam around the store about 30 minutes. Pandemonium!!
Is it this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUIbPfhSuo
The response of the Best Buy employees reminds me why I generally don’t shop there. I’ve never had Target call mall security on me just because I happen to be wearing a red shirt.
-TimK
UPDATE: A similar prank at Target: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwzFfDg0QoI Much more boring, as no one seemed to care what color shirts the customers were wearing. I also recall at least one other story (off the top of my head) of a legitimate customer being harassed at Best Buy. My guess is that because Best Buy is filled with expensive electronics sold at razor-thin margins, they tend to freak out and suspect the customers of being Enemies Outside. Bad business philosophy IMO.