Heating In Shops...Too Hot Or Not Hot Enough?
By Janey1966
@Janey1966 (24170)
Carlisle, England
February 14, 2011 6:47pm CST
This discussion came about after hearing about Mum and yet another one of her shopping escapades.
In Layton, where she lives there are a few shops, including one called Cat's Paws, which is a Charity Shop raising money for the shelters that Mum bought her two cats from and mine too.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago Mum bought a lamp-shade from there and realised it wasn't suitable..because there wasn't a plastic thingy with it, to enable the shade to go on the lamp-stand..so on Saturday she took it back in a rather large bag.
Well, on this particular Saturday it was quite mild and the sun was out. Mum gets hot very easily when it's like this, so, by the time she arrived at Cat's Paws she was "sweating buckets." She also noticed that the heating was on full-blast and felt she would faint in the shop. She walked up to the counter very fast where someone else was being served and she barged in with her bag and said, "Sorry about this..the lamp-shade is unsuitable, don't want any money for it...bye!" and was about to walk out when the lady behind the counter said, "Is this yours?" waving her purse (wallet) about. The other customer then said, "Wow, she's being generous isn't she, leaving her purse behind!"
Haha!
Mum was so hot that she didn't really know what she was doing!
Have you ever got hot and flustered like that in a shop and it's all due to a combination of it being warm outside and heating being too hot inside the shops? This has happened to me loads of times..and the music starts irritating me at that point and I have to get out! And yes, I have taken my coat off but it's so bloody irritating taking it off, then putting it back on again when I'm outside.
I'd rather go home!!
In Layton, where she lives there are a few shops, including one called Cat's Paws, which is a Charity Shop raising money for the shelters that Mum bought her two cats from and mine too.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago Mum bought a lamp-shade from there and realised it wasn't suitable..because there wasn't a plastic thingy with it, to enable the shade to go on the lamp-stand..so on Saturday she took it back in a rather large bag.
Well, on this particular Saturday it was quite mild and the sun was out. Mum gets hot very easily when it's like this, so, by the time she arrived at Cat's Paws she was "sweating buckets." She also noticed that the heating was on full-blast and felt she would faint in the shop. She walked up to the counter very fast where someone else was being served and she barged in with her bag and said, "Sorry about this..the lamp-shade is unsuitable, don't want any money for it...bye!" and was about to walk out when the lady behind the counter said, "Is this yours?" waving her purse (wallet) about. The other customer then said, "Wow, she's being generous isn't she, leaving her purse behind!"
Haha!
Mum was so hot that she didn't really know what she was doing! Have you ever got hot and flustered like that in a shop and it's all due to a combination of it being warm outside and heating being too hot inside the shops? This has happened to me loads of times..and the music starts irritating me at that point and I have to get out! And yes, I have taken my coat off but it's so bloody irritating taking it off, then putting it back on again when I'm outside.
I'd rather go home!!9 responses
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
Mum does feel the cold a bit more than she did but she's still abnormal for her age lol.
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
15 Feb 11
Sometimes some store does turn up the heat really high and makes me even get sweaty. So I usually wear somethng light inside and wear a big coat swo I can just take off the coat when it is too hot in the stores.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
I reckon they put it on for the staff..everyone else has layers of clothing on lol.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Feb 11
HaHa! Another great story form your never ending list of family tales.
Well, we do not really have that problem here. The only thing I can relate to is the polar opposite where you are wearing very little clothing because it is so hot and then you go to a cinema to watch a movie. You then end up shivering the whole way through the film as they have it set to about 10 degrees! But if you take some extra clothing along then the temperature is fine and you look like an idiot carrying clothing around in the heat!
Well, we do not really have that problem here. The only thing I can relate to is the polar opposite where you are wearing very little clothing because it is so hot and then you go to a cinema to watch a movie. You then end up shivering the whole way through the film as they have it set to about 10 degrees! But if you take some extra clothing along then the temperature is fine and you look like an idiot carrying clothing around in the heat! @Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
LOL! God, I haven't been to the cinema for years but they do tend to be VERY HOT here! This is frustrating if it's cold outside. Why? No room to put your jacket anywhere. I do like cinemas. I would love to go and see "The King's Speech" but the cinema will be full of chavs munching food, using their mobile phones, so I refuse to go in.
God, I haven't been to the cinema for years but they do tend to be VERY HOT here! This is frustrating if it's cold outside. Why? No room to put your jacket anywhere. I do like cinemas. I would love to go and see "The King's Speech" but the cinema will be full of chavs munching food, using their mobile phones, so I refuse to go in.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
15 Feb 11
I usually take off my coat during any shopping moments as I can't stand being wrapped up and uncomfortable while being all wrapped up and sorting through things. I don't think it has ever been too hot for me, unless it was a day I did not have a place to put my coat in during the shopping.
I have had this one time where there were no available carts so I could not take my coat off as then it meant I had to hold it the whole time, and I could not wait to get out of the store as it was an uncomfortable feeling and I felt flustered.
There was another time I was again, not able to put my coat anywhere so I left it in the car during my shopping. Then it was way too cold going back to my car. So that taught me that if there are no available carts in a store, I leave and go back another day.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
Very wise! It's more pleasant shopping in this country when the temperature outside rises a bit, then we are able to wear thinner jackets. Even better, not having to wear a jacket at all. Whoopee! Can't wait for summer!
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
15 Feb 11
Nobody wants to be in a hot shop! I for one would really walk-out even if i have the need to buy something from there. 
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
I've done that! Especially if there's a slow-moving queue at the check-out to annoy me even more!
@changjiangzhibin89 (16762)
• China
15 Feb 11
I have never experienced this.Your mum gets hot very easily.I guess she has a plump figure which is prone to sweat,otherwise at that time she was surely burning with impatience so that she left her purse behind.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
I'm plump but my Mum isn't. She's very petite and slim.
I think her problem was the walking to the shop made her warmer (and she said it was milder than usual) but the heating was on full-blast in the shop. There was no need for this heat as far as Mum was concerned but, I suppose if the shopkeeper is standing around then she might get cold. That's the only reason I can think of for the heating to be turned up so high.
I think her problem was the walking to the shop made her warmer (and she said it was milder than usual) but the heating was on full-blast in the shop. There was no need for this heat as far as Mum was concerned but, I suppose if the shopkeeper is standing around then she might get cold. That's the only reason I can think of for the heating to be turned up so high.
@sarcos (201)
• New Zealand
15 Feb 11
I am like your mum at the moment and also have had moments like hers when I go into a shop and it is too noisey as well as too hot or cold. We are having summer this way and getting over thirty degrees of temp Celcius that is and then go into a shop and they have there airconditioning on full blast and then of course you go outside again and you get hit by the heat blast. can make you pretty sick with all the temperature changes.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
I can imagine. That would turn my stomach as well, I must admit. It's a shame air con doesn't exist outside isn't it lol. That would help enormously in the hot weather.
@GardenGerty (160696)
• United States
15 Feb 11
I do not remember ever being too hot in a store, but I always take my coat off when I walk in the door. I feel irritated when I am all bundled up. I hear lots of people complain in the summer about grocery stores being way too cold. It is all the coolers to keep food cold and air conditioning on top of it all. I get cranky when stores are crowded. I suppose a small store might make me too hot.
@Janey1966 (24170)
• Carlisle, England
15 Feb 11
I can't understand why people moan about the temperature of stores that have FRIDGES in them either lol. I quite like going in them when it's hot outside, it's a nice way to cool down.
@meganjean17 (40)
•
18 Feb 11
I can't stand it when it's too hot in a shop! It just makes the shopping experience so horrible!
