In one fabric store I was looking at fabrics, not expecting to find any animals other than dust bunnies. Suddenly I leaped in the air, practically out of my pants, as I saw mice scurry across the floor about twenty feet away! The worst part was that the employees did not seem the least bit phased by this! The mouse, or mice?!, ran by several times, and I'm sure he was not the first of his kind!
I am not someone unaccustomed to surprise visitors, like the bat in my ex-boyfriends' house last year. However, they never cease to frighten the living daylight out of me. They also give my imagination plenty of fuel, so now any time I have to go to the depths of a store, or stick my hand inside a roll; I am extra cautious, hoping not to encounter any hungry or rabid pests.
Later, the same day, on edge from my previous experience and hoping not to find Gus Gus (although I have come to resemble Cinderella), I came across an unusual object. This object, owned by many a lumber jack, and maybe even Jesus, too, was laying surreptitiously in the back of the store hidden between bolts of fabric. I managed to take a haunting picture on my phone, but have been unsuccessful at uploading it to here...it was...
A SAW!!!!
Yes, a good, old fashioned, wooden handled, jagged toothed metal saw. I am still trying to figure out why you would need a saw in a fabric store. Scissors? yes. A knife? maybe. A saw? no. If someone knows the answer to this, please explain it to me. At least this time the employee, catching a glimpse of me taking pictures on my phone, had the decency to move the thing about five feet away. But, I'm beginning to wonder if a customer closer to closing time would have had such luck....
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