Just yesterday afternoon, while I was having lunch with my Mum, my sis called.
Sis: Ma, the security machines here are all going crazy, they beep whenever I pass by them and staff from the shops have to check my bag and stuff before I leave the shops
Mum: All the shops in Vivocity?
Sis: A lot, like Topman, GAP and so on. It’s super irritating and everyone is looking at me like I’m some thief.
Mum: Are you carrying anything with the security tag or something?
Sis: No, it beeps even when I pass by it without my bag!
Mum: Could it be your braces?
Sis: Cannot be! Last few times I go out also don’t have.
Mum: I think their machine all crazy lor, I guess you either go somewhere sit and eat or just window shop. Aiyah, you better just come home la.
Today, when I was once again having lunch with my Mum, my sister called again.
Sis: Ma, it’s happening again here at Ion Orchard! It’s beeping everywhere when I enter and leave the shops! It’s super scary like the all the shopping places conspire against me!
Mum: Oh my god, I think should really should ask them to check the stuff on you one by one; bring it to the counter and ask them what is the thing on you that’s causing the beeping.
Hours later, it turned out that despite checking everything in my sister’s bag, clothes, accessories, handphone and wallet, there was nothing that beeps at the security gantry but it simply happens when she walks pass it. A senior salesperson at Topshop (I assume it’s the experience and not the age) comes by and asked my sis, “Are you wearing ZARA shoes?”. And that solved the entire mystery that lasted 2 whole days, troubled my Mum because my sister whined all day about how she might never be able to shop in peace ever again and totally irritated my sister who cares very much about her image when she’s shopping and was absolutely disturbed by the prospects of not being able to shop.
My sister stomped into the ZARA (and even had to queue for a while at the cashier) and said “These 2 days almost every shop I walk into, the security gantry all beep! The Topshop girl told me these ZARA shoes were the reason!”. The salesgirl requested for her ‘right’ shoe, despite how ‘wrong’ it was, causing every security gantry to beep and did her magic.
Moral of the story? Get your shoes from Topshop instead.
