Re: Banks are the worst
Oilskin duster, wet weather. Call from coworker "Hey, pick up a roll of cat-6 from the bank just past <store>, ask for <name> from <contractor>, he's got one of our boxes leftover."
I pop over, ask at the lobby for <name> from <contractor>, get told to wait, so I do.
20 min go by. "Sir, please step outside and leave the premises." "No problem, have a wonderful day."
Call coworker "They asked me to leave? Maybe <name> wasn't there?"" "Oh, there's a different bank one more plaza down the road, that's the one, sorry about that"
All goes well at next bank, grab the cable, get in the car, drive back towards next destination.
Gumballs light up and two squaddies railroad me into a convenience store lot.
"Hands where we can see them, keys on the roof, NOW"
"So, how many banks you been to today? Why ya dressed like that? Why did you leave the scene of the first one?"
"Two. It's wet weather, this is my raincoat. They asked me to leave, I complied with that order. It was a misunderstanding about which institution we were working at. I then completed my assigned task. There's a box of cat-6 in the back seat, call up <name> from <contractor> at <number>, and <boss> from <company> at <number>, they'll explain it better than I can."
30 more minutes later, "It checks out. Consider this a lesson to be more careful about what you wear. {scratches roof pulling my keys off it} Here's your keys."
Turns out the first bank had been recently robbed, and someone in an oilskin duster walking in caused the alarm button to be pushed. I was apparently supposed to stay on the property, but was told to leave, so it went to "active suspect", and, well, now I joke about it over drinks at the Christmas parties.