My Misadventure in Wal-Mart

Ok, I forgot to tell you guys what happened to me in Wal-Mart on Friday:

I'm just walking around, minding my own business, when I spot Chocolate Animal Crackers (the absolute best) on the bottom shelf (they're my favorite). I think "Hey! Animal Crackers! I wonder how much they are..." I bend down to see how much they are, check the price, stand up and bump into those annoying poles that they put smack in the middle of the isles there. You know, the ones that hold the fire extinguishers and the price scanners. They're so annoying, because they're always in the way.

But not a big deal, right? I bump into one.

Actually, yes, big deal, because it turns out that the fire extinguisher is not on the pole very securely - at all. All I did was bump into the pole and the fire extinguisher falls off the pole onto the ground. The valve somehow pops off and the bottle starts spinning at an amazing speed with the extinguisher stuff spraying everywhere. So, I fastwalk/run towards Mom who is at the end of the isle and workers are running from every direction. Smoke like stuff is filling the air and the extinguisher is still spraying everywhere(they pack that stuff tight in the bottle)! I'm just standing there with my mouth open and so is Mom. I don't even remember what Aly and Dad were doing. The workers are going "What's happening, what happened?!" and w'ere just like "Someone bumped into the pole and it fell off." Which was the truth. I just start laughing, because these things only happen to me! I don't think that anyone has ever bumped into a pole and set off a fire extinguisher. We start walking away from the scene, because the smoke-stuff smells and you can almost taste it.

I can now say that I have experienced first-hand how rumors spread. Workers are going to other workers saying "What happened?" which is only natural. Instead of saying, "It was an accident." which it was and which was assumed by everyone, they said "Someone pulled a prank." Others said "Someone thought that there was fire and got the fire extinguisher." Another guy said to himself "What kind of idiot knocks the fire extinguisher off of a pole?!" That annoyed me quite a bit, considering it was obviously possible and I was the idiot (even though he didn't know it). So, Mom and I go to look at clothes and Aly and Dad go who-knows-where in the store. Now, I set the extinguisher off in the food section and smoke is clouding up half of the store and still spreading! It was really crazy.

So, yeah... There's my Wal-Mart misadventure. Hope you never set off a fire extinguisher by accident. :P

XoXo,
Nina