i haven't updated this in almost a year and a half oof
anyways without further ado here is the iconic, long awaited, dollar store incident.
you know what first i'll introduce our main characters
me:
-likes scrunchies
-author of this story
-collects hoodies
-listens to billie eilish
gaige:
-my boyfriend
-always wears a stupid hat
-pretty tall
-looks like 2004 gerard way
ty:
-gaiges best friend
-a ginger
-steals trays from restaurants
-made a tiktok just to like michelle's videos
michelle:
-my best friend
-ty's girlfriend
-a wannabe skater
-deathly afraid of the colour orange
so this all went down back on january 3 2019. gaige and i had been dating for like two days and ty and michelle started dating a couple weeks after this. my grandpa dropped michelle and i off at the mall and gaige met us there about 15 minutes later. we kind of sat there awkwardly for like 45 minutes until ty showed up.
gaige and i knew that ty really liked michelle, and michelle was into him as well, so we had a plan to go into a store with ty and michelle and then realize we "forgot to pick something up" and then just go in winners and take cringey mirror selfies.
so what happened was gaige and i followed michelle and ty to whatever store they were gonna go to first. they passed several stores we would've thought they were going into and went straight to the end of the hall where the "Your Dollar Store With More" was located. i realized they were only paying attention to each other so i grabbed gaige and dove behind a sign at the entrance to winners because we were there already.
at this point they noticed we were gone, but grabbed this massive 3-tier cart and started pushing it around.
michelle's a pretty good kid but i had heard her stories about ty stealing a tray from a fast food restaurant and trying to steal a dominos pizza with a bunch of friends. so upon seeing him and michelle with this cart my first thought was just "shit.".
gaige and i went to sportchek to look at shoes and shit when suddenly my phone started ringing. michelle was trying to facetime me. i was confused but answered it anyway. she asked where i was and i said i was in sportchek and asked why. the then pointed the camera on ty, who had one level of this cart filled completely with bags of elbow pasta like the lil macaroni noodles and a bunch of other stuff.
i immediately lost my shit and ran towards the dollar store. we found ty and michelle quickly and burst into tears laughing at the sight of this cart.
i still have a picture of ty and michelle standing with the cart. i just reviewed the picture to make this story as detailed as i could, and on the bottom shelf thingy of the cart there was a laundry basket. in the larger basket part of the cart there was several stacks of paper shopkins plates, a garbage can, an object i can't identify and a huge weird pan thing. the top part of the cart was overflowing with random shit including a foam puzzle thing, loads of other toys, styrofoam cups and a (estimated by michelle) staggering 30 bags of elbow pasta.
when i asked what they were gonna do with the contents of the cart they said they were gonna buy it and donate all of it because they believed in "helping the homeless"
and guys.
they had $160 in cash between them.
so my stupid naive ass
actually
fucking
believed them.
gaige and i parted ways from ty and michelle and we met them by the cash register after about five minutes. the cart was nowhere to be seen and i thought nothing of this. ty grabbed an energy drink and him and michelle went to the cash register. it was taking a long time and the cashier and another employee were having a conversation and suddenly the cashier says something along the lines of "yeah these are the kids that put all that stuff in the cart and left it for us to put away."
in this moment i legitimately felt my heart sink. ty paid for the energy drink and him and michelle came over to gaige and i. the other employee the lady at the cash register was talking to approached us. he said that everything we did was caught on camera, and told us to go wait outside while he called the police. michelle being the sweet child she is told this man "i can just put it all away if you want" and he told us to get out or he was calling the police.
we left the store and ran for our lives down the street to mcdonald's where we took cover for several hours after that. and that's the story of how my friend and her boyfriend got my boyfriend and i kicked out of the dollar store for something they did.
but it doesn't end there.
some of you may be wondering, "but what happened to the cart?"
well let me fucking tell you.
i slept over at michelle's that night, and around 3 in the morning we were still up just talking about whatever and i decided to ask her what happened to the cart in the end, because i didn't really think what they did was so bad they had to get kicked out of the store and have someone threaten to call the police on them for it. michelle told me that her and ty didn't know what they should do with the cart, and they saw the door to the employees only room open. michelle pushed the cart into the room and her and ty ran and grabbed an energy drink after that.
she said she didn't see why there was a problem as the door was open.
i had to explain to her how since she is not an employee at the store and she put this cart into the employees only room she was technically trespassing.
to this day she insists that the door was open which made these actions okay, and that it wasn't her that trespassed into the room, it was the cart.
that's right.
IT WASNT HER, IT WAS THE FUCKING CART.
and that's the story of how i completely lost faith in humanity and that day has changed me entirely for the worst.
