My helmet in Morrisons caused uproar
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I'm still slightly shocked by the whole incident as never been told to take my helmet off, ever. This particular Morrisons I must have been to on average 3 or 4 times a week for the last 3 months to get things throughout the week and at least half of those on my bike.
Bare in mind I have a modular helmet which was fully up and whole face visible. I usually go after work, but went in at lunch today to get 4 pints of milk. I walk past number of staff, no issues. Get the milk which costs £1 and go to the tills. I'm there waiting in a small queue and then a member of staff comes over and tells me to remove my helmet. I was a little shocked and said I always come in this shop and no issues. He then walks off and in about 10 seconds returns with about 4 members of staff and they proceed to tell me it's the law to take off my helmet.
I tried to reason and say again I come in here all the time, you can see all of my face, here is my driving licence with my address in case I do anything illegal, here's the £1 coin for my milk and I will be on my way. By the end of a brief 30 seconds arguing this point, there were about 7 members of staff and everyone is looking around. Honestly, if you came into the store you would think I'm a serious criminal the way staff had surrounded me.
I then said it's fine, I won't buy the milk and started to walk out the shop, and the staff wouldn't let me leave telling me I needed to remove my helmet now. I proceed to gently squeezed through their huddle around me and walked out.
Nothing has changed overnight has it? I probably could have just taken my helmet off, but it would have been longer to do all of that, to then hold my gloves and helmet and struggle to get into my wallet and also into the backpack. But for that minute in Fleet Morrisons today, it practically shut down the shop and I was made out to be a complete criminal.
Rant over. Just a completely bizarre situation I've never had before. Crazy.
Bare in mind I have a modular helmet which was fully up and whole face visible. I usually go after work, but went in at lunch today to get 4 pints of milk. I walk past number of staff, no issues. Get the milk which costs £1 and go to the tills. I'm there waiting in a small queue and then a member of staff comes over and tells me to remove my helmet. I was a little shocked and said I always come in this shop and no issues. He then walks off and in about 10 seconds returns with about 4 members of staff and they proceed to tell me it's the law to take off my helmet.
I tried to reason and say again I come in here all the time, you can see all of my face, here is my driving licence with my address in case I do anything illegal, here's the £1 coin for my milk and I will be on my way. By the end of a brief 30 seconds arguing this point, there were about 7 members of staff and everyone is looking around. Honestly, if you came into the store you would think I'm a serious criminal the way staff had surrounded me.
I then said it's fine, I won't buy the milk and started to walk out the shop, and the staff wouldn't let me leave telling me I needed to remove my helmet now. I proceed to gently squeezed through their huddle around me and walked out.
Nothing has changed overnight has it? I probably could have just taken my helmet off, but it would have been longer to do all of that, to then hold my gloves and helmet and struggle to get into my wallet and also into the backpack. But for that minute in Fleet Morrisons today, it practically shut down the shop and I was made out to be a complete criminal.
Rant over. Just a completely bizarre situation I've never had before. Crazy.
Edited by PHlL on Thursday 30th July 18:46
RichB said:
I don't ride a bike but, maybe naively, I must ask what's the issue with being asked to remove your skid lid?
I know some else mentioned and it is very much the same. But talk it through step by step.Undo velcro cuffs on my jacket.
Undo velcro gloves.
Remove gloves.
Have to hold gloves.
Under helmet.
Remove helmet.
Ear plugs usually come loose as helmet catches my ears as is tight.
Hold helmet.
Get wallet out whilst juggling helmet, glove, and sometimes ear plugs if they fall out, and my shopping.
Once you've gone through all of that, you then have to put your helmet plug to put the ear plugs back in which means having to put it somewhere which I hate as all it takes is wind, some idiot, or many other external factors and thats £500 down the drain having to get a new helmet.
Hope that justifies it a bit.
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