Saturday, February 26, 2005
I’m at work tonight and everything was hunky dory. Nothing unusual, just a moderately busy Friday. The store was pretty full and it was almost eight o’clock. Someone said we were being shot at. I hadn’t heard a loud “bang” or anything so I thought it was a joke. I walked to the front of the store.
It was surreal. Like something out of a TV show. At first I saw no one. Then I realized there were people all around me, crouched down behind tables and other fixtures. I saw the hole in the glass. It was just like CSI. A perfect little hole in the unbroken window….
Customers were asking me what they should do. How the hell do I know what they should do. I knew what I had to do. Remain calm. I announced that I was going to call the police, which I did. I let my people know so that they could inform customers. I then had to make those calls you are trained to make in an emergency situation. When I returned it was as though it never happened. People were back in line and my poor cashiers were handling it. (People are like that. I don’t care how loud the fire alarm is, or how dark in a blackout, people are just determined to continue shopping.) In the meantime my district manager told me to close the store. When the police finally arrived it turned out that one business after the other had been calling. Someone was just driving around shooting out windows! The policeman felt it was one of those heavy duty slingshots, but it looked like a bullet hole to us…
Anyway, as soon as the closing paperwork crap was done we all left. I am still a little tense.
Wow. That’s scary! Glad to hear no-one was hurt.
Posted by Kirsi on 02/26 at 06:42 AMgoodness. that is scary. i don’t know that i would’ve been able to remain so calm.
But i like your ‘hunky’ dory. heh heh.
Posted by laura on 02/26 at 01:46 PMI’m glad no one was injured!!
Posted by Lee on 02/27 at 05:00 AMI think that’s a great past-time…just drive around and shoot at windows. WTF?
You could have had a guy with a machine gun right in the store standing on a display case and I bet some dumbass would go, “Excuse me do you work here? Is this on sale.” to the gunman. Aren’t people amazing…in good ways and then in cock-your-head-to-the-side crazy ways?
Glad you didn’t get shot. That would piss me off.
Posted by charlie on 02/27 at 01:23 PM
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