my kid will never act like that

Gabriel is a very mellow kid. I know he's my first so I don't have a constant comparison, but I know, he's mellow. I can usually take him to a restaurant, shopping, to work and out to see friends with out incident. Today was another story.
Since his birthday is less than a week away I thought it was time to get him some new clothes. We went out like usual to the outlet mall. I wasn't allowed to finish my phone conversation with my Grandma because Gabe no longer wanted to be in his car seat, he voiced this to both her and I. Then his little legs stiffened up making it impossible to get him in his stroller. Three minutes fighting in the snow, I was sweating, Gabe was laughing and we were off. I barely made it in Osh Kosh B'Gosh and Gabe has houdinied his was out and was standing up backwards smiling, a terrible mischievous smile at me. I tried to sit him down but he winged out, cry, cry, cry, bang bang, bang on the stroller :( I grabbed the first pair of overalls I saw checked out and left. I still didn't have what I wanted but was too embarrassed to go back there so we tried Carters. Different store, same scenario. This time I tried to strap him in with the buckles and he did one quick dirty look at me then a quick loud "SCREEEAAAM". I don't like being the center of attention, especially bad attention, so we had to leave there also.
We got home and I realized, I spent 1 1/2 hours in the car and less than 5 minutes shopping. Maybe tomorrow Jeff can have baby duty and I'll try again. Maybe Gabe will wear an outfit he usually wears, I'll let you know next week.