Perhaps eight years ago, we went to NYC to watch the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.
We were all being corralled along the sidewalk and the only way you could see what was happening was on these big screens.
I tried to walk into one particular corral and was told I couldn’t bring my backpack with me.
There were tons of people there carrying shopping bags, so I asked if I could just carry it by my side in the same way. Nope.
Cue malicious compliance idea.
There was a store right next to the coral that sounds like “Santana Free Public,” so I popped in and found a nice, but generic sweater I knew I would be able to use someday. I asked for the biggest bag possible, for what was a relatively small piece of clothing.
Once outside, I slipped the sweater into my backpack and my backpack into the shopping bag and moseyed on into the coral. The view sucked, but the look on the corral monitor’s face was golden.
My dad, brother and I went to an NFL football game in Buffalo NY. I didn't bring a bag, because I didn't want to deal with a purse. I just stuffed my things in my jacket pockets. My brother had a pair of binoculars in a case. The case was literally just the shape of the binoculars, slightly bigger. No pockets or anything, maybe 8" by 6" by 4", with a hinged, attached top.
We get to the gate, and some guard tells my brother he can't take the case in, only the binoculars. My brother gets his ticket from Dad, and gets ready to go all the way back to the car to stash the case. I ask the guard if I'm allowed to take a purse with me, and she says yes in a kind of wary tone, because she can see I don't have a purse. I took the case from my brother, hand him the binoculars, put all the shit from my pockets in the case, and put the strap over my shoulder. She starts to say something but I cut her off. I said "you said I could have a purse. You didn't say it couldn't be ugly. " She rolled her eyes but let us in.
That's a better MC story than OP's . Good for you .
Perfect
Buffalo was probably just happy to have a third person sit in the stands.
And one can always say it is a medical bag- no questions can be asked what kind of medical bag. :)
It is clearly for carrying vision improvement equipment.
Go Bills!!
They sure did this weekend!
Reminds me of the time I turned my backpack (which was banned) into a satchel (which was, apparently, acceptable) by unthreading the lower end of each strap and then tying the two together into one strap which I could wear over my shoulder.
McGyver!
McGruber!
I have an Osprey travel backpack that is designed so that you can partially unhook the straps and slide them into a little slot, and then carry the bag like a small suitcase.
I have this backpack, too! Love it.
My BIL went to a restaurant where he was refused entry because he didn't wear a tie. Solution: unthreaded a shoelace and created a tie from it. Maybe he heard of that from someone else, and maybe it was just inspired (money is on the latter, but I know my BIL better than you). Yep. they let him in.
Can't remember the guy, but it's someone really famous. My mind wants to say Feynman, but it's someone at least that big of a deal and it feels like something Feynman might do. He was staying at this hotel, and the hotel had a restaurant. They wouldn't let him in, no matter how famous he was, because he wasn't wearing a suit. Next night, he shows up wearing a suit. They let him in and show him to a table. He takes off ALL his clothes -- even his socks and shoes -- and tells the waiter to serve the suit, because that matters more to them than the person wearing the clothes. Then he walks out, starkers, and back to his room.
I knew a guy that was refused entry into a fancy nightclub for not having a tie, so he went back to his car and got a jumper lead and fashioned it into a tie. He went back to the doorman and he said 'OK, you can come in, but don't start anything'
That was terrible. Have an upvote anyway.
can I downvote multiple times??!??
Nah, I don't think he was this childish
A scientist he disliked had set up apparatus for a demonstration, and Feynman gained access to the setup the night before. He pissed all over everything. Fact.
That's why my mind keeps telling me Feynman.
Do you have a quote for that fact? I couldn't find it with a quick Google search.
No. But I distinctly remember it. I believe it happened at Los Alamos, where Feynman broke into safes and left notes telling the people to be more careful and basically acted like a 12-year-old genius. But wherever I read it, it's certain. Thing is, no one could ever pin it on him. They knew it had to have been him. But so what? The guy was incredible.
Yeah, I did a little more than a quick google search and still couldn’t find anything other than a story about him urinating while standing on his head.
Genius.
I found out during my last year of junior high that I was a legend among the teachers. Backpacks were not allowed, but purses were! So I used a mini back pack to carry my library books and pencils around.
Backpacks are sometimes banned because people forget how far back they project and sometimes turn while too close to something fragile and hit it.
Satchels don't have this problem.
Satchels have a different problem, of swinging out wide when people turn swiftly and also potentially hitting something fragile.
I, personally, have been accidentally hit by more satchels than backpacks, but I also understand that a sample size of one person isn't statistically significant to anybody other than that one person.
I went to my first MLB game after covid, took public transport and had all my stuff in a normal commuter size back pack. Without prior notification, I was told at the entrance it was not allowed. I tried to leave it with my friend's bike in the valet, also not allowed.
Ended up dashing down the street to Safeway and bought a cheapo soft cooler bag, ran back to the ball park. Took everything out of backpack, rolled and stuffed it to the bottom of the cooler bag, put my food and glove, etc. on top of the back pack. Walked right in. Got to my seat and put all back in the backpack and stuffed the cooler bag in there. Ridiculous.
I got a bunch of surveys from the stadium, from the team, and from the ticketing source and I complained bitterly to each one. I got nothing for it, but they did add NO BACKPACKS notifications to all emails referring to the tickets purchased or the game day as it was approaching.
Nicely done!
Clear bags are all that’s allowed in the sports arenas/stadiums where I live. One of our teams really suck, so I guess there is that worry about what might be carried into the stadium.
There is a British football chant for this..
We lose every week! We lose every week! You're nothing special, we lose every week..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfLg2hBVRw
"Either you trade him, or someone is going to fire him."
With fire.
How many runs did the Giants lose by?
I basically did the same at a padres game last summer.
Weren't there great photographs of people toting their dogs on the NYC subway? Because dogs were only allowed if they were being carried. German Shepherds, Labs, etc, being carried in enormous shopping bags.
Sometimes the rules really are ridiculous.
Yup big dogs in the big ikea bags with holes cut for their legs, dogs in hiking backpacks on the owner's back.. it was brilliant and adorable
To be fair, a big dog that you can put in a bag like that is a friendly dog that will take orders from its owner and trusts its owner and will thus most likely not be a problem on public transport.
The original rule was probably put in place to avoid having "tough" people with aggressive big dogs bring them in and be unable to control them in a tight space with a lot of people.
Or idiots with dogs on retractable leashes that never kept them contained. The bag kept them at arm length which is appropriate for public transportation
Like that old Roman? Greek? story where a city was being conquered but women were allowed to leave with what they could carry... so they carried their husbands
I helped a friend fit her lab/shepherd cross into a giant black duffle so she could take him on the subway. He was 12 and couldn't do the walk back to her place. He was so chill about it, just a tad confused.
Evidently, they never ran the rules past those that PennTest for a living.
I know it's a typo, but penntest just brings up the image of penn and teller being told the can't bring their bags in and!.. what bags?!
If I can't have my backpack, then how come you can have yours? *pulls backpack out behind your ear* *gets arrested for funny business*
LMAO!
LMAO!
A comfy backpack of MC
Twist: the corral monitor was secretly employed by the sweater store.
Believe it or not, you’re allowed to say Banana Republic on reddit.
Some subs frown on brand names for various reasons. Sometimes it's habit to obscure them.
Wear it on your front. It is now a CHESTpack and not a BACKpack.
Niiiice
I used to work at 50 Rock and from my office I could see right down onto the tree. You didn't miss anything no big deal. Overrated...
Nil that is peak creativity like you gotta outsmart the rules sometimes for real
I have read this before. Years ago.
Someone must have had a similar experience
Other people are commenting with similar experiences.
It's almost as if you are new to living on your own.
OP's account is pretty sus but there's nothing giving it away as a bot just yet. It is kinda odd that they aren't commenting, though.
No one is obligated to respond to comments, especially to the ridiculous comments.
No, you didn't.
I believe you! This definitely only happened once, and it was this time.
I have not said this happened only once, but only that MdayofEarth had not read this story before — without a link to the alleged previously-read story, it is safe to assume that it does not exist.