Target Class Writing Assignment

Last Thursday, my mother sent me on an errand to pick up some prescriptions from Target. It was the early afternoon, and there were no more than twenty people in the store. As I walked to the front door with my parents' medication in hand, a siren began to screech, the lights shut off and a red light began flashing. My first instinct was to duck and hide. I ran to the nearest isle and ducked between the dish soap and the toilet paper. I heard a little girl screaming for her  mother, and someone frantically running in a few aisles away. The siren wailed and the light flashed for a good twenty minutes before everything went calm.

When everything went quiet, my ears were ringing and I sat for a few minutes. A voice frantically came onto the intercom, "Hello everyone. I am John Gates, the manager of this store. I am so sorry about this event, but if  everyone could calmly come to the front of the store by the returns desk, I will explain everything. " I sat still, wondering if this was really happening, and whether I should trust this man or find the back emergency exit. I peek out into the main aisle, and see the little girl, weeping into her mothers shoulder, walking to the front with an employee.

I slowly stood up, a little unsteady from such a traumatic moment. I walked to the front, on my guard at every footstep. When I got to the front, I saw everyone else that was already in the store. The manager began to speak to everyone. "I am very sorry about the circumstances that you all just experienced. The police are on their way. Our security system just had a small glitch. I will give you all store credit for $200 for the inconvenience."

He then walked to the door, as to open it to let us out. As soon as he touched it, the siren began to wail again and the red light flashed. We all ducked down and huddled together, as if a low flying plane were coming in above our heads. The manager quickly ran to the control box behind the concierge desk and pressed in a code, and the sirens stopped. He began apologizing profusely again, adding on more store credit, and asked everyone to stay calm. He called the security company, found out how to disconnect the sirens, but the door was still locked. We stood in the front lobby area for a good half an hour, we all began to wonder around hopelessly.

I walked through the clothes section a few times, trying on a few items here and there. Next, I stopped at the shoe section and tried on every heel in the store. After, I walked around the home décor section, finding something new to decorate my room with around every corner. . I decided to grab a cart and use my store credit. I then perused the movie aisle, the magazine aisle and lastly the book section. I peeked over into the toys section, and saw the little girl playing with a stack of toys, taller than her.

I then took a book that I found over to the home décor section and sat down on the futon and began reading. I was soon asleep from the long and exhausting day. The next thing I knew a random man was tapping me on the shoulder to wake me."Their saying that they figured out how to unlock the door," he said. I followed him to the front pushing a cart filled to the top with random décor items, and we left the store.