Yes, it’s been over two month since I last blogged. What better way to get back into it then with a crazy story about a typical trip to Target. Disclaimer: This may only be crazy to those involved and there is a very strong possibility that you will read this and say, huh. But it was ridiculous at the time.
So a couple of weeks ago, Kate and I went to Target for some random items (mostly because we wanted to get the complete season 1 of Girls). We were going at our usual browsing pace – let’s go down this aisle, oh can we check out their latest decorations, let’s price out patio furniture – and we were just about ready to pay when we went to the card aisle. So it’s just the two of us and some older lady in said aisle and as I am picking up a card, all of the sudden we hear this “blehhzoooooommmmm” and the store goes pitch black. I immediately clutch Kate’s arm and am ditching the dumb card that was in my hand and our cart and say, “Let’s get out of here” and just as Kate’s grabbing her purse the lights come back on. But just for a second cause then they went out again. This time for a very short amount of time, and the lights finally came back on and stayed on. At this point, if a slight breeze were to come up, I would be knocked to the ground.
It took us a few minutes to collect ourselves in the card aisle – still shaking, thank you very much – and we were ready to get the heck out of this place. So we made our way to the checkout and all of the computers are rebooting because of the outage. As we were waiting in line, Kate was going to run and check for one last item, but thinking that the power would go out again, I yelled out to her HURRY!! Luckily, the lights stayed on but the computers were still out of commission and pretty soon the entire store is ready to check out and no one is moving. About 20 minutes later we were finally walking out with some shaky legs and I was looking for a Xanex stat.
A few weeks later, Kate was auditing the very same Target and found out that the power went out because of a car accident that wiped out the power grid. So what it comes down to is that kate and I lost probably 2 years off our lives because two cars decided to fender-bend. Not necessary.
