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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dropped mine off at the mall and got a call about 20 mins. later to come pick him up.  Security escorted him out because he was underage and sat with him until I got there to make sure he didn't re-enter through another door.

He wasn't with a group of friends or meeting friends.  He had some Xmas gift cards that he wanted to use to buy clothes on his own.

He was so embarrassed about being escorted out and then babysat outside of the mall that he didn't go back there for a year after.  He just shopped online, showed me stuff online to buy him in the store, and if I saw something I thought he'd like, I'd facetime him.

Just total crazyness!  I understand not wanting groups of minors in the mall, but to not let them in at all to shop unsupervised?  They can work there but not shop there?  That's just insanity.  No wonder brick-and-mortar stores are dying.

Hell, I probably single-handedly kept Auntie Annes, The Limited, and Icing in business when I was a teen.  We spent every Friday night pre-football game there in the food court and then every Saturday night there.  So many paychecks were blown there.  So many lies of "no, I'm not going to buy anything, mom, gosh, chill out!" were told by me each weekend.     [/quote]

Wow! That's crazy.  How old was he?[/quote]

15!  
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