Snacky day(5)

Wow! The 5th story? Boy I'm going crazy! But here it is:

Snacky day!

I was hungry. Seriously, it was horrible! Everywhere you looked; the fridge, cookie jar, cupboard… empty! The only thing left to eat, was a twenty year old piece of stale bread that eventually got so moldy that no one wanted to throw it away! (In case they got some rare disease by touching it… or even inhaling the fumes!) Then came the good news! My mom was going shopping in an hour! Not at the local grocery store either.  At the giant, full-of-food mall! And guess what? I could go along! Well I would normally not volunteer. But I was thinking of a favorite food all morning. Something that starts with a d and has a neat hole straight through the middle! It’s got chocolate, or sprinkles for topping… and it’s just the greatest! You probably know what I’m thinking of. Doughnuts! My quest was to make sure my mom kept the solemn oath (In which she crossed her heart and hoped to die. And pinkie-promised) to buy doughnuts for the family. So the next thing I know, we’re on our way to the giant full-of-food mall! Surprisingly my sister came along too.

So first we messed around with the shopping-carts, putting our favorite (but most expensive) foods in. Then (when mom looked our direction) putting the items back. Of course it got boring after a while, so we took to hide-and-seek behind the shelves, around corners, even inside a basket of giant stuffed teddy bears! The possibilities were endless! I even found my sister concealed inside a refrigerator that was on display! Of course I wouldn't have found her if someone else hadn't screamed short and sharp as they opened the fridge door. It was so funny! Some store clerks were annoyed by our constant giggling as we discovered each other in wacky places, or counted out-loud disturbing other customers. In the end our mom was called and told to make us stop all this “immature behavior”.  

Oh well. She told us to stay close to the shopping carts, not to let go of them or to leave them somewhere that no one would find them again. Of course this sent our imaginations into overdrive, we had to do something! Then one of us (I’m not quite sure who) came up with the brilliant idea that changed the course of the day! If you haven’t thought of it by now you have probably never been in quite the circumstance I was in… Shopping-cart racing!

Well up and down the aisles we go! Dodging people by exactly 2 mm! I was winning too! Then we had a great surprise! (And I mean SURPRISE!) Some of our crazy friends were there! The reason I called them “crazy” is of course because they loved doing crazy things, for example shopping-cart racing. Before you could say “doughnuts” we were a pretty big competition. Everyone was dodging out of our way, and we were all trying to take shortcuts. What was the finish line? The doughnuts of course!

Now as I reached what felt like 40 miles per hour I looked to my right; saw my sister next to the sardines, looked left; saw my crazy friends with a totally bonkers look of… fear? Yup fear, you could see they were totally scared. I looked right again, my sister was wearing the same expression of mortal terror. Then she shouted: “OH NOOO!  CHHHIIIIPPPSSS!!!!!”  (Now you must be thinking: “Chips?! Did she just say chips?”  Yup, me too.) I looked up ahead. I could see why they were scared! About 5 meters in front of us was a mountain (well it seemed like a mountain) of Lays chips. The only thing keeping them from falling in all directions was some cling-wrap.

Then the world seemed to go into slow motion. I observed that there was no way to dodge it and decided to say my last words before being grounded for life… I looked to both sides and said a last, final, and sad goodbye. Then the slow-motion stopped working and- “Bang!!!!!!”  All the air inside those chips packets saved us, but now the entire mall was looking at us.

Oh here comes my mom… she looks angry. Oh no. Not good, I guess I can forget about doughnuts. I guess it's made worse by the fact that the entire mall is covered in little 'chip snowflakes'... ”

It all went downhill from there. I didn't even know who won! We had to pay for all the damage and I can’t have pocket money for months! The only bright side is that my mom kept her promise and brought doughnuts anyways! (And I got an awesome picture of our crazy friends and my sister shopping-cart racing!) Oh well, next time I think we'll try acting normal… even though I won't be able to do that for long. 

The end

What can I say? I was hungry when I wrote this!
LOL Noisy Nadia