Alarming

So yesterday, I took my car to Walmart for an oil change. They told me it would be an hour and twenty to an hour and forty minutes, so I had some time to kill by walking around the store.

Since I am male, I headed to the electronics section, where I came up with a fun way to kill time: I would set an alarm clock to go off in two minutes, then I would walk around to the other side of the photo counter, where I had a good view. Then I would wait in delirious anticipation as an unsuspecting consumer would walk down the aisle to look at boom boxes or whatever, checking my watch for the exact time when the alarm would go off, then watching as these poor, startled shoppers tried to identify which alarm clock was going off and figure out how to silence it.

The greatest thing was that the alarm was just loud enough to startle that ONE person ... I couldn't hear it from my vantage point a mere twenty feet away. The electronics dept. checkout people couldn't hear it, so I could have done this endlessly. And it was fun not being able to hear the alarm myself, but knowing exactly when it went off by the little leap these startled people took.

I could write more, but I've got to head out and drive some ... the faster I put another 3,000 miles on the Corolla, the sooner I go on another alarming adventure.