Trapped!

Ok, so I almost died today. Well, that's being a little dramatic but I did have a very nerve-wracking experience. This happened, of all places, at K-Mart.

I know what you are going to say, but I love K-mart. I can go there and (1) It's never crowded (2) I can find neat stuff that I wouldn't normally think of (3) they usually have half the store on clearance because not everyone can relate to #2. Well, those things worked against me today. I was tooling around checking out the Easter sale (because I am a poor teacher and buy all of my classroom decorations AFTER the holidays) and also looking at some of the neat garden/flower items they had to try to get some ideas for my summer flower gardens. I wandered into the back separate room garden section when IT HAPPENED. The door going out to that section shut behind me. No big deal you might say - that is until you go back to leave and IT'S LOCKED!

So, smarty me thinks that maybe I am just blond today and it's a push, not a pull. Wrong - I was most definitely locked in! So let me refer you back to point #1 of why I like K-mart...It's never crowded. You would think that SOMEONE would walk by the door and go 'hmm, what is that crazy girl doing knocking on the door and flaying her arms?' No, not today. I had seen one of my fellow teachers in there minutes before and I could see her a LONG way off and was trying to give her mental signals to come let me out but alas, our teacher psychic power was on a break. I shook the doors, I pounded on them, I yelled...nothing!

I swear I was in there for 10 minutes before a cashier on her way to get potting soil for a little old lady found me and released me from my garden prison! It's a good thing the little old lady didn't go back to try to get soil! They might have found her body the next day! Honestly, I was going over in my head what I would do if no one ever found me. Call someone? Who exactly would I call (Uh, yes, hello K-mart? Um, yeah I am trapped in your garden section). I even toyed with the idea of breaking the glass on the door with the handy fire extinguisher.

Anyway, I am free and had to buy 2 bags of leftover Easter candy to sooth my stressed out soul! Logan told me I was being overly dramatic, but he doesn't understand....he wasn't there...the garden gnomes were starting to organize themselves...