Adventures at the Fabric Store

I've decided that my life is just too busy. I will be sooooo glad when all of these little (and some not so little) medical bills and extreneous bills are all taken care of, so I can slow down a bit.

I've been working Monday and Thursday evenings at the fabric store, with an occasional Saturday thrown in...so far. This past Monday was quite the adventure. Those of you from this area will understand.

It was a night of STORMY weather. Seriously, the tornado sirens went off! And I was at work. And Nitro was at work. And Aravis was at work. And Muftak was home. All four of us were scattered to the four winds! lol

Nitro works in a place that I knew would make sure all of their employees were taken to cover. Aravis works in a much smaller place and I couldn't, for the life of me, imagine where they would put their employees if the weather got really bad. So, I texted her and she said that, yes, they heard the sirens and she was ok. I called Muftak and as per usual, he didn't answer his phone. (I'm really beginning to wonder why he has a cell phone.)

And where I worked, once the sirens started, we had to have all of our customers either leave the store or go back to the back classroom, and we had to lock the front doors...because the entire front of the store is all glass.

The sky just kept getting darker and darker and, at one point, it was as dark as midnight outside and the wind was howling ferociously! The asst. mgr. and I hung out at the back of the store behind the racks of fleece and watched the storm outside.

At one point, the sirens quit wailing, but then soon started up again. So, ok...we kept the doors locked. It was really weird being at work and just sitting in a chair doing nothing except waiting for a storm to pass. lol

About halfway through all this, a lady came running up to the front door looking pretty frantic. We let her in thinking that she got caught out in the storm and didn't want to drive home. She came in and immediately just started shopping.

???

Hello???

Seriously, we were both completely dumbstruck. I mean, really? She didn't know we had the doors locked for a reason? The asst. mgr. told her that she would have to leave or stay in the back classroom and she just was insistent that she needed to shop for some particular fabric for some project she was working on. The quilting teacher stepped up and said she would pretend to the be the mgr. and get her out of the store....or at least back to the classroom.

Guess what happened.

She left the store in a huff! I was just amazed! lol I mean, seriously??? lol

Anyway, the sky kind of started clearing off and lightening up out, the sirens had stopped, and the wind appeared to be dying out a little bit, so the asst. mgr. headed to the front to unlock the doors. All of a sudden, the wind picked up just out of nowhere and, in just a split second, I felt the pressure in the building completely change and all of the glass windows on the front of the store bowed in!!!

The asst. mgr. said something along the lines of, "Oh shoot!" and started running back to the back of the store. We both headed into the classroom and decided to wait a bit longer before opening things up! lol

It was a little scary and creepy!

Within about 20 mins., everything died down and the sun peeked out for a little while. We had a few customers that evening, but not many. In fact, the store was completely empty for the last 30 mins. we were open. (Too bad we couldn't close early.)

Very interesting night at work!!!

AND...I found some drapery fabric that I'm going to stretch over a canvas frame and hang in the living room, though. Just the colors I need for that room! (",)