So this story is not as crazy as some of the ones I’ve seen on here but it is momentous because it is my first ever post on reddit ever, so...huzzah.

Anyway, I was working as a preschool teacher about three years ago at a cookie cutter chain school. There wasn’t really a dress code other than looking like someone who was working with kids and being able to move freely.

It was the middle of summer and we were in “camp mode” so the normally relaxed dress code was even more relaxed. On this day I was wearing a longer black skirt and a red V-neck tee shirt. We are located right up the street from a Target. It was payday. You can see where this is going.

I got out of work in the early afternoon that day which was awesome, and I decided that since I still had energy and some extra cash and not a lot of summer clothes I would go to the Target and get some. I drive up the street and enter the Target, all seems well. Nothing out of the ordinary, I browse the clothing section and I find some cute stuff. I decide then to go back to the fitting room and try on some of these things before I buy them.

So by and by I am now leaving the dressing rooms, I return the things I don’t want and I place in my cart the small pile of things I have deemed worthy. I start to push my large cart out of the awkwardly small area outside of the dressing rooms and I encounter the Confused Lady (CL) and her teenaged daughter(TD). ( I will be ME for the dictation of this encounter)

CL: Already actively shoving a shit ton of stuff into my cart Could you take this for us?

ME: No? No thank you?

CL: Angry look of pure, unfiltered confusion Why not?

ME: Equally confused because it hasn’t yet occurred to me WHY this is happening to me Because this is my cart?

~Silence as we stare at each other in a moment of mutual confusion that seems to last a lifetime before..

CL: Has seen the light Oh! I’m sorry, you don’t work here! She laughs and takes her things out of my cart and walks two more inches past me to the counter outside the dressing rooms

TD: Finally has looked up from her phone Oh my god, mom are you serious? Again!?

I stumble away, still confused. It finally clicked for me as I was walking to the line that all this woman had seen was a girl in a red shirt pushing a cart. Maybe she assumed I was using the cart to carry things people hadn’t wanted back to their departments?

I had to laugh about it but at the same time I was still flabbergasted that she had just dumped her crap in my cart. Even if I had been an employee I’m sure there’s some system of sorting things before putting them away, so just pouring your stuff over it all instead of taking two more steps to the counter you return things you don’t want to was amazing to me.

Also that she had mistaken my v-neck tee shirt for the Target uniform shirt.

It was a really nice shirt.