This happened to me yesterday and I can’t not share it because it’s absolutely hilarious to me.

I was recently hired in a small-ish motorcycle garage/workshop just under 3 weeks ago as a mechanic, yet what I tend to do most of the time is errands for the other people that work there as I’m knew, and I’m not going to complain. Normally it's organising bolts, tidying tools up, sweeping or grabbing food on the lunch break for everyone (they chip in cash wise for it obviously).

Just before lunch myself and one of my colleagues manage to bend a breaker bar (a large bar designed to increase torque on a nut/bolt to make stiff bolts easier to loosen) and therefore need to replace it. I take the company card (as it's a company expense), take everyone's money and head into the town to do some light shopping. Thankfully we’re situated about a 5 minute walk from a Halfords (British store for bicycles, car parts, tools etc) and there's a small coffee shop opposite.

The work uniform we have is essentially just black overalls, and I personally put a hoodie over the top half as it can get quite cold around this time of year. This makes me look very similar to the uniform that is worn in the Halfords shop.

I turn up and head to the tools section and find a breaker bar easily enough, they're quite large so it's hard to miss them. While I'm there I have a general browse at a few other things in the shop and an employee asks if I need a hand. I’m juiced up on coffee and am reading the back of an alarmed padlock box when they speak and it makes me jump, smacking my head on the shelf above and knocking some things off the shelf, nothing heavy or delicate thankfully, just a few pairs of heated gloves and some tubs of glue.

Apologizing and able to laugh about it I assist the worker in placing everything back onto the shelf when a buzzer goes off and he says he has to head to the office, and thanked me for helping re-stack the shelf.

Just as I finish restacking the shelf and picking up the item I was looking at, a man walks in with a toolbox that the place sells and comes up to me kicking and screaming that he lost a part of it or something. I honestly wasn’t paying attention to what he was saying. I attempted to explain that I don't work here, he simply pointed at my legs, presuming they are trousers not overalls, and calls me a liar, and that if I don’t replace what he LOST he would fire me on the spot.

The worker who had headed to the office arrived back at the end of the aisle about this time and asked if there was anything he could help with and I, having spotted his name tag beforehand told him by name that I’ve got this. Turning back to the clearly irritated gentleman tell him that he can't fire me because I quit. I placed the items I was holding on top of the toolbox straddled across his arms, and storm off, being careful not to turn and show the massive grin on my face. Out the doors I went and off to the coffee shop before returning to work having completely forgotten to return and buy the breaker bar. Told them the story and another colleague walked over and bought it himself with the card. Really lightened the mood of a cold dirty workshop for the day.