OMG, worst day. long, sorry.

Looooong class today - so so boring.

then I stopped at [unnamed store] on my way home from class - I needed a small gift for a friend that I'm going to see tonight.

I grabbed a purse and walked around with it for a while, but then decided that it was too $$$ to spend on a small gift, and just hung it where I happened to be standing. (it was mens dept at the time - I KNOW it was lazy of me to not return it to it's proper department, but I was in a rush.)

I go to leave the store, and was attacked by the store manager and store security!!! they grabbed my shoulders and walked me to a back room.

I kept asking why, but they said that they can't discuss anything until we were in private. I'm like, ooooookkkk....

We get in the private room, and he asks me to empty my bag! (I still had my large schoolbag with me - I DID go straight from school.) I'm like, 'Excuse me ma'am, may I ask why?' - She said that they saw me with a purse, then it disappeared, and they had reason to believe it was on my person.

I let them empty my huge bag (omg, i had the MOST embarassing stuff in there, including a spare pair of undies- it's a *bad week*, sorry if TMI) -- please explain to me how I could store a PURSE in the tiny zipper compartment inside my bag??!?!

After 1.5 hours in that hot little room, enduring tons of questioning, the assinine employees found the bag exactly where I had left it, and I was free to leave, but I was asked to never come back to said store again. They didn't even apologize!!!

This store is IN my hometown!!! I knew 5 of the 6 employees on shift. Soooooo humiliating.

I was informed that everything that was done was completely within legal limits. They had reasonable doubt, therefore, they had the right to hold and question me. But for 1.5 HOURS?!?! OMG.

So so so so scary. I felt like a criminal the way they accosted me at the front door, yelling 'security!!!'