Listener Locked In Sears Store

Melissa Forman talks with a listener who was locked in a Sears store. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now we have been talking about Jennifer Garner, who got
stuck in an elevator for an hour and twelve minutes
of Comic Con. She was so calm and collected. She
taped the whole thing put it on Instagram. At one
point they were singing ninety nine bottles of beer. Well
she was. The other people were sweating and swearing, but
she was still happy. But I was asking if you
were ever stuck, you know, in an elevator, you had
any sort of stuck stories, because they're always kind of

(00:22):
fun to share. A five five nine three nine six
nine three six A five to five nine three nine
six nine three six. All right, gimmy, gimme, said, Teresa's on,
and she has a doozy of a story. All right.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
What happened when I was in college. I got stuck
inside a seer store, you what. I worked there part
time in college and they locked me in. I had
to wait for the police to come. Oh hold, and
then the police, well, we.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Don't have a key to the store.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
The store manager had to come back. The manager that
was on duty that night had to come back and
unlocked the door so they could let me out.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What were you doing? That you got luck were you're
just so busy in your job, like stacking things that
you got locked in. I mean, you didn't see the
lights close.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I was doing a report and security came around and
I said, I'm still here, give me a few minutes.
And they last and they locked me in.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
We've done this before stores you'd want to get locked in,
I forgot. I think Apped Electronics was number one because
they have cookies and they have a kitchen and they
have beds, so you'd be fine. Oh, in TVs.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
They were surprised that I did not set off the
alarm because I walked around the entire I was like, wait,
is someone here?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Around the store. I passed the jewelry department. I went everywhere.
I was like, someone, please help me.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
What's that like? By the way, to be in a
store all by yourself, a big giant Seers store. And
by the way, were the lights off? Did they turn
them off real quick?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh? Yeah, the lights all the lights went off. Oh
and then the emergency lights came on. It was a
little creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh. And you couldn't have a cell phone back then.
You just had a call on a regular phone.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, Yeah, I can call on the regular poll and
the police had a riot with it.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
When I called you and I this is not an
emergency when I'm locked inside store, he was like, you're
an acting a police lady, lock and dive the deer store.
They were all in that room.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm dying. I'm dying too. Well, listen, at least you
got a good story, because that's a once in a life.
I mean, not many people get locked in a big,
giant department store. Now, let me ask you before I
let you go, what store today would you like to
get locked in? Would you be okay with.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Maybe a mattress store to be able to try out
all the Oh my god, oh gosh, that's funny.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
We can work that out. But I think we're fine.
I think you only get to do that once in
a lifetime. Well, I'm glad you're okay. I'm glad you
lived to tell about You got an awesome story. But
you have a good day. Oh my gosh, you too.
I'll talk to you very soon. Call me if you
ever need help getting out of anything. I'm always here, okay,
by love you, thank you, Oh you