Drowned Prison Rats and Drywall Destruction

Mom and I had an interesting experience recently. So last Thursday we went to the new walmart at about 9:15 PM. We were checking out shrubs and trees and stuff and so we were in the outdoor area sort of near the back. It was super cold and I was afraid that it was going to start snowing. But lady luck was not smiling at us that night. It started ice raining on us. You know ice rain..... it is rain that is not quite frozen enough to be snow so it drops like rain but kind of stings when it hits you, either from being so cold or from being slightly frozen. I say slightly frozen because it still drenched us from head to toe. I am not kidding you, it was a downpour. There were little rivers that had formed in the parking lot. Well, when we couldn't stand it anymore and decided to buy the plants we had. We went to leave the garden center only to find that the doors were locked. Mom checked her clock and it was after 9:30 and realized that a worker had probably not seen us and locked the doors. My first thought was "I can probably climb these bars and squeeze in between the ceiling mesh and the top of the bars". Mom's first thought was (so much more logical than mine) to grab her phone. She had the number in her phone already because she had to talk to the pharmecist earlier in the day. So she pulls out her phone, calls walmart and says, "we are stuck in the garden center, can someone come and let us out?". The chick said "sorry, those doors are closed. You'll have to go around". Mom, "No, we are IN the garden center, we picked out our plants and now need to get out". Chick, "I'm sorry, you'll have to use the front cashiers, the garden center cashiers have cashed out for the night". Mom, "NO! We are STUCK IN the garden center. We have been LOCKED IN the garden center and we want someone to come and UNLOCK the doors so we can get OUT of the garden center!". Chick, "The garden center is closed". Mom, "I know, you CLOSED it with us inside". Chick "OH!! YOU ARE STUCK OUTSIDE IN THE GARDEN CENTER!!!? I"LL BE RIGHT THERE!" So we stood there, like drowned rats pitifully waiting for the employee to come and free us only to find that when she got there that she didn't even have the keys to unlock us. She had to call for a manager. He was super apologetic and even unlocked the side door and let us back mom's car right up to the door so we could load the plants I had bought directly into her car to avoid the monsoon. I felt bad for mom because she didn't even have a coat on but she said that she wasn't even cold. I find that hard to believe because by the time we got home I was so cold that I had to take a hot shower to stop my teeth from chattering. It was funny though because as we were driving away I noticed the 2 emergency exits in the garden center. Here I was tempted to climb over the top when there was an exit not 7 feet away. The other funny thing was that we were so distracted about the garden center that we didn't buy the medicine that our family needed so we had to drive back around the front of the store, go back in, and buy the medicine and then race back through the rain to our car. All in all, the trip was a success but MAN!! the funniest things happen when mom is around!
So Tom had an experience on Friday night. He was playing with K and once again Lady Luck was frowning on our little family. He was putting his leg up against the wall in the hallway to make a bridge for little K to run under. So the first time he did it everything went fine. Well, he put his leg down and went to make a second bridge with the other leg but his toe snagged the rug runner and propelled Tom forward. He went flying into the wall. I was in my bedroom when I heard the BAM!! I called out "are you ok!? What happened!? Are you alright?" Tom anwered back "I'm ok, but the wall isn't". I went out and saw the carnage. There was a BIG hole in the wall where Toms elbow and foearem went through the drywall. It was a foot across and about 14 inches long. I asked what happened and when he told me, I laughed and said that he was lucky that his elbow went in between the two studs because otherwise his arm would be broken and not the wall. So he fixed it on Sunday and after he put on the patch and the spackle he went and layed down (because wehave all been sick). Well, I thought that the house was a little too quiet so I went to check on K and found him fingerpainting in the spackle. He was making pictographs on our newly fixed wall. He got a "I'm very disappointed in you" and a stern look (which is usually the worst thing you can do for him and Coley) and then I fixed the wall again. They didn't touch it anymore that day and now it is dry so no worries. Anyway, funny story though. Have a great day everyone.