Too funny. A bunch of people from [a href="vny!://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57"]Improv Everywhere[/a] dressed up
similarly to the employees at Best Buy and then "invaded" the store, where they stood around doing nothing. The employees freaked, or course. The first bit of the story is here but follow the link for the full thing.
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[h1]Best Buy[/h1]
DV Cams: Agents Shafer, EMartin, Reeves, Carlson
Digital Photography: Agents Nicholson, Todd
Mission Inspired By: Agent Slavinsky
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The idea for this mission was submitted by a stranger via email. Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. Wearing clothing almost identical to the store's uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question. There aren't any Targets in Manhattan, so I decided to go with the two-story Best Buy on 23rd Street....
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Just then an actual Best Buy floor clerk approached me:
Employee: "You can't talk to my customers".
Simmons: "I'm just having a friendly conversation with these people"
Employee: "But you don't work here."
Simmons: "It's a free country I feel I can speak with anybody I choose."
Employee: "You're playing some games."
Simmons: "I'm just here to shop with my wife."
Employee: "Yeah, you and your 50 friends?"
Simmons: "I don't know anybody else here."
Employee: "Yeah, you're instigating (sic) our shirts."
Yes, he said INSTIGATING.
I told him, "I'm only wearing what I wore this morning," and walked away.
A little while later, an older woman with a handful of products walked past me at one point muttering to herself, "Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!"
Full Story: [a href="vny!://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57"]Improv Everywhere[/a]
