This is quite amusing....

Yesterday, the boyf and I went to our local Spar to buy Mothers Day cards and chocolates. After being in the store for about 3 minutes, the security guard comes over and asks the Boyf to take down his hood. Now, the boyf does have his hood up - it's snowing outside, but his face is clearly visible AND he is buying his mummy a card and chocolates (not exactly threatening behaviour). The Boyf politely says "No, i'm not going to take my hood down" (he's a big believer in he should be allowed to wear what he likes when he likes to), so the guard says "Ok, but the staff won't serve you". So we say "ok" and carry on browsing the chocs. We go over to the till and the boyf hands over his carefully chosen card and choccies. The woman at the till says "I'm sorry I cannot serve you", like a robot. So the Boyf says "No? Ok then" and passes the card and chocs to me, along with his money. The woman serves me, with the Boyf stoof right there!! WHAT IS THE POINT!!??
Now I want to make it clear that the Boyf was super polite and he isn't at all chav-like. In fact he looks proper rock and roll. Not a shellsuit or stupid giant rude boy hat in sight. What is the reason for this dumb rule? Is it because of CCTV? In which case we should've been removed from the store so that we couldn't steal anything and get away unseen by the cameras. What was the point in asking him to take down his hood then upon refusal just saying "ok then but you won't get served". STUPID PEOPLE!!!
After we left the shop I realised that halfway throught the transaction I should've flipped my hood up!! Ha! That would've caused a dilemma.
It made me kind of mad because if it was for security reasons, the security guard should have made us leave. The fact that the Boyf could stay in the shop but not be served made us think it was purely because of his appearance. Nobs.