Random Thoughts

I went to CompUSA to get some electronic thing. Ladies, I know you’re dying to read stories about CompUSA and personal electronics. I’m sorry to say this story is not about that. It’s also not about the horrible changes Dole has made to their Pineapple Orange Banana juice. However, as long as we’re talking about it, you should know that Dole has ruined the once delicious beverage by using copious amounts of pineapple juice in the mix.

But I digress. Back to CompUSA…

I was on my way out, about to step on to their incredibly narrow escalator, when the guy who stepped on ahead of me dropped his umbrella. I reached over to grab it for him, but he turned around and reached for it too. The umbrella was stopped at the bottom of the escalator, but this guy was rapidly going up, up, up the escalator. He inexplicably left his feet planted on stairs that are moving away while leaning forward and bending down to grab his stranded umbrella. Naturally he fell over. This is when things got really weird. As the escalator relentlessly churned on, he kept flailing about like a turtle on its back. Somehow he couldn’t right himself. I was staring in disbelief as he went feet first up the escalator and began tumbling like clothes in a dryer. Someone yelled “Help that guy!”. I snapped out it and stepped on to the escalator and grabbed him. Then someone stopped the escalator. The guy grabbed his stuff that was now scattered over the escalator stairs and high-tailed it out of there in a hurry.

The moral of the story is, don’t risk life and limb for some cheap-ass umbrella. And stay away from Dole’s reformulated pineapple-orange-banana juice.

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