History Main / GoingToTheStore

* ''Quartier Lointain'' (the film adaptation of ''Manga/ToADistantTown''): The protagonist's father says he's going out to buy some bread on the night of his 40th birthday, but in fact he is leaving never to return.

* ''Quartier Lointain'' (the film adaptation of ''ToADistantTown''): The protagonist's father says he's going out to buy some bread on the night of his 40th birthday, but in fact he is leaving never to return.

* ''GreatTeacherOnizuka'': When Anko goes out to meet Noboru, she tells her mother that she's going to the store. Her mother wonders "You took a shower to go to the store? And is that my perfume?"

* ''BetelnutBeauty'': Fei-fei, about to run away from home, claims she's going to the convenience store to get past her mother.

* This happened with Creator/StephenKing's father.
** ...he went to the store?
*** Yes, to get cigarettes. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King#Early_life That was sixty years ago]].
** Did something bad happen to Mr. King, Sr., or did he...just go to the store to get cigarettes and came home?

** Played for laugh in a christmas special where Santa ended his visits by going to the local store to tell all the dads they could go home now.

* While slipping out for some slaying in "Living Conditions", {{Buffy}} tells her college roommate that she's going for coffee. [[MustHaveCaffeine In the middle of the night]].

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* In the comic strip ''Stone Soup'', Joan's ex-husband Leon went to the store for some milk and didn't come back. Rumor has it that the store was in the Bahamas.

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A stock excuse for going out, when a character either doesn't want to give the true reason or is leaving not to return, is "I'm going to the store". In {{Manga}}, {{Anime}} and other Japanese media, the store in question is likely to be referred to as the ''konbini''; i.e., the local convenience store open at practically all hours.

One reason this trope is a lot more prevalent in Japanese media is that they don't have a lot of space in their homes for storage, and convenience stores sell more kinds of things, so it happens more in Japan.

* Jackie uses this excuse in one episode of ''{{That 70s Show}}'' (she actually goes to [[SecretRelationship make out with Hyde]]).

* ''{{iCarly}}'' uses this quite often. One of the more blatant examples is shoving Sam out to buy meat, so that Carly and Freddie can discuss the face he's not had a real FirstKiss. Only for Sam to realise she has no money, and come back and overhear the conversation.

* Ray Romano discussed how he would volunteer for chores if he needed to leave the house. These included stopping by the DMV or applying for jury duty.

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* This happened with StephenKing's father.

** Played for laugh in a christmas special where Santa ended his visits by going to the local store to tell all the dads they could go home now.

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* There's a viral video on Youtube called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM Going to the store]]. It's.... [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment different]]....

* In the ''{{Slayers}}'' OVA "Jeffrey's Knighthood", Jeffrey's father left to get milk and disappeared for ten years. Presumably he was trying to get away from his crazy wife Josephine.

*** Yes, to get cigarettes. That was sixty years ago.

* ''{{iCarly}}'' uses this quite often.

"Convenience Store" is a favored song for making MAD movies, especially on Nico Nico Douga. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdN3cxpFd-Y Here]] is an Earthbound MAD.

* Nelson's dad from ''TheSimpsons'' went to the store a few years back and never came back. It is later revealed that he didn't intend to disappear, but was actually abducted by a circus passing by.