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So school starts soon and I needed new insoles for my combat boots and I have a pile of loose change begging for a coinstar, so when mom came home and ate a sandwich we decided to head out to the mart of walls.
First, since I wanted to go to a super store against the market place because the pharmacy area would be bigger and experience told me their insole selection would be better. Mama slicey didn't want to go to one on the freeways so she went to one more south of us. And got lost. Twice.
We get there and decide to hit the pay-less next door first to look for insoles, where I also bought boots and slip on sneakers. We then head over to mart of walls, where mama slicey immediate;y hits the bathroom and I hit the coinstar. Then the WRATH hits. I literately drop in the last nickle and it reads the last total and I am bout to hit the button when......
'click' all the lights go out.
I stare at the now blackened screen and glance over at the gentleman next to me on the redbox. We both look around in confusion. The lights then flicker on for a brief second then back to black. He asks me if I had finished yet I say no he tells me to go speak to the manager which was already on my mind but I was waiting where I was until Mama Slicey left the bathroom cause she almost completely blind in the dark which will lead to another story for another time) and I had her phone so I wanted to make sure she had it and could get out safely. Mama slicey comes back, and I go find the manager.
They tell me to call coinstar, I call coin star while escorting my mom outside to her ccar so she can have the light of the street and we see.... the power is out for the whole block. The air field across the street is dark there are no street lights and all we see are head lights and one airplane crash prevention light on a water tower (if you are from the valley you now know where we were lol). Coinstar logs my report of the machine dying mid transaction, tells me to leave my number with walmarts manager to be called when the power was back cause they should be able to go in and recover the last transaction. I make sure mama slicey is in her car, run back in find the assistant manager explain what was happening, leave my name and number and we head out.
We find light, grab food and head home.
The Gods did not want me to shop at the Mart of Walls.
First, since I wanted to go to a super store against the market place because the pharmacy area would be bigger and experience told me their insole selection would be better. Mama slicey didn't want to go to one on the freeways so she went to one more south of us. And got lost. Twice.
We get there and decide to hit the pay-less next door first to look for insoles, where I also bought boots and slip on sneakers. We then head over to mart of walls, where mama slicey immediate;y hits the bathroom and I hit the coinstar. Then the WRATH hits. I literately drop in the last nickle and it reads the last total and I am bout to hit the button when......
'click' all the lights go out.
I stare at the now blackened screen and glance over at the gentleman next to me on the redbox. We both look around in confusion. The lights then flicker on for a brief second then back to black. He asks me if I had finished yet I say no he tells me to go speak to the manager which was already on my mind but I was waiting where I was until Mama Slicey left the bathroom cause she almost completely blind in the dark which will lead to another story for another time) and I had her phone so I wanted to make sure she had it and could get out safely. Mama slicey comes back, and I go find the manager.
They tell me to call coinstar, I call coin star while escorting my mom outside to her ccar so she can have the light of the street and we see.... the power is out for the whole block. The air field across the street is dark there are no street lights and all we see are head lights and one airplane crash prevention light on a water tower (if you are from the valley you now know where we were lol). Coinstar logs my report of the machine dying mid transaction, tells me to leave my number with walmarts manager to be called when the power was back cause they should be able to go in and recover the last transaction. I make sure mama slicey is in her car, run back in find the assistant manager explain what was happening, leave my name and number and we head out.
We find light, grab food and head home.
The Gods did not want me to shop at the Mart of Walls.
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