Except it wasn’t the bag, it was the bloomin’ wallet. I had forgotten I’d bought the wallet at the same time I bought my bag, but because the wallet was inside the bag I didn’t think it could be that.

I was in my local shopping centre again this morning and sure enough, I was beeped as soon as I walked into Marks. I thought, okay, enough is enough, as much as I like the bag I’m not going through with this for the next how ever many years. I was finding myself actually tensing every time I walked into a shop.

When I got home I called Fossil, where I bought both the bag and the wallet and explained that I keep setting off the security scanners in shops. The kind lady explained that I may still have tags on them. It doesn’t have to be a big tag, she explained, it can be a small rectangular tag. I searched and searched. I couldn’t find anything on my bag, but hey presto, there was a small tag inside my wallet. I ripped it out and did a small jig of happiness.

No more bleeping wallets, no more bleeping bags…well, we’ll see on Thursday when I go to Tesco’s to do my weekly shopping.

Tell you what though. I didn’t bleep with every shop I went into, Sainsbury’s being one of them. Makes you think, doesn’t it?