Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Creative
Imagine that you are five years old. Your mother has taken you grocery shopping with her. You're having a great time, walking beside the cart, looking at all the cool items that you want Mom to buy for you. All of a sudden, you look up and Mom is gone! Write this scene. What aisle are you in? What feelings are going through your head? What do you do? Do adults help or ignore you? Do you find her again? How?
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I would be in the barbie aisle, crying for my mom. I'd run up and down different aisles trying to find her, but she'd be nowhere in sight. I'd hear my name over the loudspeaker telling me that my mom was looking for me and that I should go to the front of the store as soon as possible. I'd run to the front of the store, looking for my mom and crying. Finally, she'd be waiting for me by the checkout desks and scoop me up in her arms.
ReplyDeleteThis aisle has always freightened me, it is always frigid cold, and when the doors open it makes a big "ahhhhh" sound, llike a big machine. We entered that aisle and I grabbed for my mom's hand and it wasn't there! helpless, alone, and in this scary aisle, I began to cry. I set myself in a fedal position and cried. Suddenly I felt a warm hand touch my shoulder. This lady had on white pants and a blue vest. I don't know who this person was, but I knew that there was a lot of people that look like her in the store and they are always helping people. This lady assumed I was lost and asked me what my mother or father was wearing today. I remembered that she was wearing this yellow shirt with a bblue tassel hanging down. This was my favorite shirt of my mom's becuase I liked to play with the tassel. She picked me up and we bgan our search. We searched through probably about five aisles. As we were coming out of the cereal aisle this woman in a yellow shirt, my mother, was frantically running toward the frozen section. obviously she found out that I wasn't by her side anymore. We jogged after her and met up with her in the frozen aisle. She thanked the lady in the blue vest and gave me a big hug! She told me never to run off like that again, but the thing is I didn't run off, she did. Then she let me ride in the basket of her cart, which I used to do when I was younger.
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The funny thing is this used to happen to me all the time. I think I am emotionally scarred from getting lost in stores so many times. I'll write about one time I remember this happening when I was little.
ReplyDeleteI was shopping with my parents when I was aroung four years old. My Dad was wearing a blue coat and I don't remember what my Mom was wearing. I had wandered away for a second and suddenly I looked around the aisle and they had dissapeared. I incredibly frightnened and didn't think I would ever be able to find them again. I ran into the next aisle and saw a flash of the blue coat. Letting out a big sigh of relief I ran to the cart and jumped on the side. I had my eyes turned down and was examing the products they had selected. I didn't remember picking out any of them. I noticed a big bag of peanuts and was surprised because we never bought them, and as I turned my face up to tell my dad this, fear shot through me. The person pushing my cart was not my dad at all, it was a strange lady! The coat she was wearing was the same exact one my dad had on. She smiled at me, amused, but I was petrified and I leaped off the cart and ran away. I found my real parents a couple aisles over.
This is so scary! It just happened to me recently! I was in Chicago and forgot my cell phone in the car. My mom dropped me off at a store and was going to go around the block and then pick me up. I waited outside on the busy sidewalk for 15 minutes and it started to get awkward because I was standing in the same spot and people were starting to notice that I was obviously waiting for somebody. Then my mind starting to get a hold of me and I started to get antsy and just reallllly wished that I had never gone into the store. I knew nothing had happened to my mom, I was just worried that I would never be picked up! 30 minutes turned into 45, and when 45 turned into an hour, there she was. She had taken a wrong turn on a one way street and then gotten stuck in rush hour traffic.
ReplyDeleteI was six years old and my dad and I were at farm and fleet. He was looking at tires or something, but I sneaked away to look at all the toys in Toyland. So I was admiring all the things I wanted for Christmas, and I don't know how much time had passed, but by the time I got back to the tires, my dad was gone! So I went back to Toyland to wait for him. I remember thinking that if I had to live in Fleet Farm, Toyland would be a nice place to live. But then I started to get scared. Then I thought I saw his shoes and his legs at the end of the ailse (I was sitting down). So I ran up to him and hugged his legs, but it wasn't my dad! It was some other man with the same shoes and blue jeans. He was very nice though. He took me to the front and they announced my dads name and when my dad got there he just laughed because I thought some other guy was him. And since I was crying he bought me some cute, useless toy to make me feel better. The End.
ReplyDeleteThis has actually happened to me before.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin Emily and I were shopping with my mom at Wal-Mart. If I remember correctly, I was about 5 or 6 and Emily was about 4 or 5. We were walking along with my mom, but then Emily and I stopped to look at the Barbie aisle. We looked up and my mom was gone. I wasn't the type of girl to just sit there and cry, so Emily and I started walking around looking for her. She was nowhere to be found. I did start getting a little teary eyed. I was scared, but I had to be strong for my little cousin because she was really scared too. Anyway, we kept walking, holding in our tears, looking for my mom. We came to the jewelry section of the store and this guy worker there could obviously see that we were lost. Two little girls wandering around the store looking helplessly and crying, I'd hope he would be able to tell. Anyway, he asked if we were lost and we nodded our heads yes. Then he asked what our names were, but I was so shy that I was afraid to tell him, plus he was a stranger. Finally, Emily and I got the courage to tell him. After we told him our names he announced into the loud speaker our names and reported us lost. At that point my mom heard it and came and found us. She was sort of laughing, if I remember correctly. I didn't think it was that funny! We had to be lost for a good 20 minutes! I was, of course, young so it might have seemed longer than it actually was. To sum it up, it was terrifying! I hate getting lost.
I would be in the cereal aisle looking at all the delicious, fun looking treats. I would be looking at the boxes to see what toy you could get with the specific cereal. I would then realize that my mom was not there. I would wonder the aisle and peek around the corners trying to find her. I would be checking out the other foods in the freezer section and playing with the ice and throwing it. Then I would keep moving and since I was not an expert in left and right, I would wonder back into the cereal aisle where I would find my mom. We would then finish up our shopping and head home with a special treat that she had boughten me.
ReplyDeleteOne minute I was just standing there looking at the many toys in the Wal-Mart toy section with my mom. I couldn’t keep myself from wanting every little thing (except for the icky, pink girl stuff) that I saw. That was when I saw the coolest toy on earth. Even though my mom had told me before we walked in the store that I had to be by her side at all times, I just couldn’t keep on going after catching a glimpse of that toy. So, only thinking that my mom wouldn’t get very far in a few minutes, I snuck away when she was busy looking for a Christmas gift for my brother.
ReplyDeleteI don’t remember how long I took to just stand there in the middle of the isle and look at the toy that I was so amazed by, but I realized that I should probably go and find my mom again before she left the store without me. When I peeked down the aisle to see how far down it she was, I started to cry. My mom was gone, and I had no idea where she was!
Then the search for my mom began. I had no idea where she could have gone and I had no idea where to look first. Everything was so big to me and there were these really huge people walking around. I felt like a little ant that could get squished any moment if I wasn’t careful enough. A lot of the people around me paid no attention to me, even though I was balling my eyes out. It was an old lady who saw me wandering about the aisles crying, and she asked me what was wrong even though I’m sure that she had a pretty good idea on what happened. I didn’t say a word at first (I was told to never talk to strangers), but she was really friendly so I told her that I had no idea where my mom was. Then we went up front, made an announcement over the lou speaker, and waited for my mom. She came as soon as she could to get me before I decided to run off by myself again.
So there we were, in the candy aisle. I was looking at all the candy I wanted. My mom calls from a little ways away to come with her. I don't listen because I am caught up in all the different kinds of candy. There are blue kinds, and red kinds and all the colors of the rainbows. I look around to tell mom that I want a bag of candy, but she is no where to be seen. I call out mom several times, but she doesn't come. I leave the candy aisle and head to the cookie aisle. She isn't there either. By this time I am yelling out mom. Finally one of the store managers comes and takes me to the front desk. He calls her name over the intercom and she comes and gets me immediately. She had been worried sick wandering the whole store, searching for me.
ReplyDeleteSo my mother and I took a stroll through Wal-Mart. We had just finished up our grocery shopping and now we're heading towards the clothing department. I always hide in the shirt racks and when my mom comes by I would jump out and scare her. So I was getting ready to jump out when I heard her shopping cart go by. So I jumped out...she wasn't there. I looked to the right, then the left. She was no where to be found. I looked everywhere. I went back to the grocery department, then to the sports department, I even checked in the medication department. She was gone. I went back to her shopping cart and I broke down. A lonely feeling took over my body while I sat by the cart waiting for her to get back. Soon an hour went by, then two, then three. I didn't know what to do. After about 6 hours of waiting for her to come back I decided I would get up and ask someone if they had seen her. The only problem is there was no one else in the store. I was completely alone. I ran throughout the store looking for someone, anyone, but there was literally no one there. So I ran outside, the parking lot was completely empty. I sat down on the bench outside Wal-Mart and just cried and cried.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about 4-5 my parents and I were shopping at Scheels. You all know that in the clothing part there are those round clothes rack things. Well I thought it would be really funny to hide in one and then if someone came around, I would jump out at them. My parents were done looking around and told me to get out of the clothes rack and come on. They told me they would leave me if i wasn't out in the count of 3, and of course I didn't listen to them. So my parents went around the corner and when I came out, I didn't see them anywhere. I just froze in fear and started crying. Luckily, this lady came. She asked me if I was lost and then asked me my name. Just when we were about to go page my parents, they came around the corner. They noticed I hadn't followed and came back. I was very upset and my parents just laughed. I definitely listened to my parents after that!
ReplyDeleteWell I'd be lost in the fish section, of course. There's so many interesting fishes...
ReplyDeleteI often wander off the path, so to speak, so it's not surprising when I get lost all the time.
My mom was strolling PAST the fish section when I got disracted by the fish. I knew she wasn't waiting for me, but I didn't care. I'd catch up to her later.
However, she was a lot father than I thought. I could't find her when I walked past the aisles. It'd be much easier if she were super tall or something. The only distinguishing feature is her red curly hair.
I get this tickling panicky feeling...because she gets really mad if she's ready to leave & one of her kids are lost. When my older sister got lost, my mom was crazy and mad. We were out in the vehicle and she tried actually driving off, but my dad didn't let her. But we almost did... so that's why I'm a little afraid at the moment.
When I find her, she's looking at the nutritional facts on the back of a box. She probably didn't even notice I was gone.
My mom has probably dragged me to one of the various food aisles with her long list of things to buy. She is most likely a a little overwhelmed and was looking for something specific. I immediately being to panic, and my heart begins to race. Tears begin to fill my eyes and I stay right where I am, just like my mom always told me to do. Eventually she'll come back for me and her cart, and all is well.
ReplyDeleteI am more than likely in some food aisle with my mom while she tries to find various foods. She decides she is going to go check a couple of aisles over for something. Without saying a thing to me, she has left. I look up and I see no one. My hearts starts beating faster and faster. I do not know what to do. I walk out of the aisle to check the one on the left and the one on the right. I do not see her so I start to get really scared. No one has said anything to me. Before I know it though, my mom has found me with being one bit worried.
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I'm sitting on the floor crying in the candy aisle. My mom has dissapeared and everyone is looking at me like i'm crazy. I see thing man walk by and he is in a blue shirt and talking to me asking where my mom is and i can't stop crying becuase i don't no. Suddenly he picks me up and carries me into the main office. He makes a anouncment over the loud speaker and my mom soon comes running. The next thing i no i'm in her arms with a sucker in my mouth!
ReplyDeleteSo we were walking around the store and we got to the aisle with all the canned food. I was looking at all the colors filling the shelves. I turned around and mom was gone! I started wandering around trying to figure out where the heck she could have gone. The farther I got, the more worried I became. Everyone I passed could see that there was something wrong but nobody offered to help. They all just stared at me as I walked by. So then I wandered into the freezer section and I see my mom. I run and she was like "well I'm glad you showed up, I was starting to get worried." Then I realized I was only gone for a few minutes.
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