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A subtrope of [[Room Shuffle]].
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.
In the U.S., though, going to get cigarettes or milk or "the paper" is often a convenient excuse to get a character away from the others for a while, and as there are convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day, too, it's not a major expedition, so one character may go alone.
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See also [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'': 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?"
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Jackie uses this excuse in one episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' (she actually goes to [[Secret Relationship|make out with Hyde]]).
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'''Donna''': Jackie, it's Tuesday.
'''Jackie''': See? Total madness! }}
* Will's dad in ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''.
* Same for [[Friends|Phoebe's]] dad for his 2nd family. He went to the drugstore 4 years ago, so he should be back any minute now.
* It was a cliché in mysteries for a long time: "What really happened to your husband, Mrs Quigley?" "He went out to get cigarettes six years ago, but he never came back!"
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* [[Married... with Children|Seven's]] parents went to "get cigarettes". Al notices they used the excuse to leave town and leave Seven with them.
== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* 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.
* Similarly, Louis CK has a story that starts: "Once, my wife sent me to the store to get toilet paper. Because we were out of toilet paper. Because I had thrown it all in the garbage so I could get out of the house."
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