A Little balst from the past

So at work last night, we were pretty slow…like 5 customers in the store. That’s really slow but surprisingly it went by fast. Anyway, two girls came into the store that I went to high school with. I have not seen them since graduation day and I wasn’t necessarily really close to them but I have known them since middle school. So I saw them and hugged them and helped them in the general direction of the kind of shoes they were looking for and trying to catch up with them and see what they have been up to. Pretty much school and work..hey like most of us my age. So, after I left them to continue their shopping, I walked past my manager, Rebecca. And I love her! She loves Jesus and puts things into perspective for me when I need it. So as I walked past her, she said “Do you know them from school?” I replied “I went to high school with them but thats about it.” Then she mentioned that they didn’t look like people I would hang out with on a regular basics. And it made me kinda sad. I know she didn’t mean it like I would never hang with them but it just reminded me of how blessed I am to have Jesus in my everyday life and how much I can be a blessing to thoes around me to have Jesus be poured into their life as well.

Now, I wish I could say that i went up to them and told them all about Jesus, but I didn’t. I really felt in my spirit that I just needed to pray for them both. I’m not sure what they have been through in their lives but I do know in high school they were mixed in a lot of illegal things. And then God brought to my attention that I can tell people about Jesus until I’m blue in the face but some people need to learn on their own. And most of the time, their own is the hard way. But sometimes the hard way will teach them where they have been and will have them realize that having Jesus in their lives is far better than anything else and it will help to open their eyes to see where they have been and where they are now.

DSW Scariness

Sunday working was probably the most interesting, and scary nights ever! Ok so here it is, I was assigned to make boxes for the shoes who didn’t have any boxes and bring them up to the front to be stickered for clearance. So, I went in the back room to work on my task.  When all of a sudden, I heard this BIG boom from the upstairs storage part. I thought Kayla was working up there because she was putting athletic accessories out on the floor, and that is where they are stored. I said in the walkie,  “Man Kayla, you sure are making a lot of noise  up there.” She replied, “I’m not upstairs, I’m out on the floor. Don’t you know that the back stock room is haunted?” “Yeah right, Kayla. You got me, ha ha ha.” “No, I’m serious, it is. No one ever believes me.” Then, I started to believe her.

So, as I worked afflictively but quickly, I heard more noises. But not only from the upstairs but from the room where you turn off all the lights in. So, I decided to recruit another co-worker, to a) get it done faster and b) so I won’t have to be in the back room alone. I found Jill and she agreed. About a minute after we returned, we started to hear the door by the big loading door, moving in and out but not dramatically, but enough to think that someone was coming in and out. Jill said, “It has to be the wind.” I give her a look of doubt. “Well, thats what I’m telling myself.” “What if your wrong? Are you going to go check it out?” “Heck no!” she said quickly. “Well, let’s just get this done soon so we can get out of here.” Soon after, we finished. Now our next task, getting a cart to put all the shoes on so it would be easier to carry them all to the front. The big one was but the room which some of the noises were coming out of. So, we found a smaller cart but we decided that we HAD to make it work. So we pilled all the boxes on the cart and tried to get out of the room as quick as possible. We got out of the doors okay but as soon as we got 10 feet away from the back room all the boxes fell off the cart and onto the floor.

So we find another associate to go grab the big cart as we pick up the ones on the floor. She had no idea what was going on, so we figured that it would work. She comes back and finally we bring them up to the front. Now we had to find the right percent color sticker and a printer so it could be scanned by the gun and printed through the printer. We went up to my manager and asked her where the other printer was. She said in the back room. Dun Dun Dun! Unwillingly, Jill and I went back into the back room to go look for it like we were told. So, we looked everywhere else except by the room, not leaving each other’s side if I might add. So finally, we start to walk over by the room, still looking for the printer. Immediately, it got really cold. So cold, I got goosebumps. Then all of a sudden, there was this huge BOOM from the upstairs and room at the same time. Needless to say, I screamed and we both ran out of the back room. And keep in mind that this all happened when the store was still OPEN! Looking back on it, it makes me kinda chuckle but I’m still not going back into that back room……they can’t make me……ok I won’t go alone.