SO the day before we left for Perth, we had to do a bit of last minute shopping, the story of my life, everything happens last minute. The Hubs, my 2 girls and I trotted off leisurely to The Gardens/Mid Valley to get the haul that my Ozzie cuzzies wanted but for some reason, I kept setting off alarm bells at every departmental store we entered!!!

They’d walk in without any problems and I’d always set off the alarms. Going in with alarms is one thing but stepping out with alarms is not so fun. Especially not when a plain clothes police man comes after you to ask to search your bag.

At store 1 – I walked in and out without problems. It was early on in the day so perhaps security wasn’t awake yet. And just so you know, it was the double J store.

At store 2 – I walked in and out without problems either. Perhaps it was because they saw me go in innocently and walk out innocently very soon after, and since I have such an innocent face, ahem, I had no problems. This was an IT peripheral store.

At store 3 – I walked in without anyone noticing but got caught when I walked out. The detective searched my bag, then asked if I had any make up that was new because apparently make up was a common thing that got the alarms going. Women sometimes forget to remove the bar code stickers from their new make up. He checked my make up bag, all was okay. We were all perturbed. Why was I setting off the alarms? So the Hubs suggested I walk in and out WITHOUT my bag and lo and behold, I STILL set off the alarms. Which was even more worrying because now, the detective would think I’d stolen some underwear! I quickly told the Hubs that it couldn’t be my underwear because they were all old and have been through many, many store alarms without problems. In the end, short from stripping me, the detective allowed us to walk away scott free. But T1 and the Hubs and myself were still really, really curious why Mommy was setting off alarms!

So we decided to try another store……

At store 3 – I was still setting those blinking alarms off!!! The security guard that was guarding the store smiled and asked if I had some make up. I showed him how I could walk in without my bag and still set off the alarms. He continued to smile and suggested that there must be some tag on my clothing some where that still had a bar code on. Oh, whatever!!!

Curiousity got the better of me and I walked out, sat on a bench and started to think really hard. Then I started digging out every single tag that was within everything that I was wearing and VOILA!!! I found this:

It was sewed onto the Ann Taylor T-Shirt that I’d never worn and thankfully, we had a baby nail clipper that I quickly whipped out and snip-snip-snip. No more beep-beep-beep-beep!!!

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Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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