This past Saturday began as a beautiful day; sunshine, temps in the low 60s and nice enough to open the doors letting fresh air into the store. I was outside sticking labels on a new pottery shipment and smelled something burning. I looked up and saw white smoke billowing from the side door of the building. I thought “Oh Lord, we’re on fire” and ran inside to find out what was burning.
It was a pop-tart in the toaster. Someone had loaded it and left it unattended and it failed to “pop” so it was burning up and smoking like a chimney. We took the toaster outside to be dealt with and set up a fan to blow the smoke and smell outside into the warehouse. No firetrucks were necessary.
Later that afternoon I went to Kyles convenience store and somehow discovered the only way to lock my keys in the car with it running. My purse, phone and dog Hershey were in the car. The engine would run for 30 minutes and the AC was on so Hershey was OK, but it was not a good situation. Thankfully, Pop-a-Lock arrived within 7 minutes to unlock my car – kudos to Pop-a-Lock!
Meanwhile, back at the store, a customer had driven a golf cart onto the front porch and while attempting to maneuver between 2 pots things went horribly wrong. She hit the accelerator instead of the brake and didn’t lift her foot off the pedal. She ran into pots, barely missed hitting George and did hit Sara, then came to a stop after running the cart into a pallet of bagged soil. She was OK, but Sara wasn’t.
Danny rushed Sara to the ER at Longview Regional where she received 18 stitches in her leg. She said that multiple people kept coming in to look at her cut and all of them said “that is quite impressive” which is their way of saying “yikes, that’s bad!”
We ended the day without any further mishaps - thankful that the building didn’t burn down, that Pop-a-Lock quickly popped my door saving my dog, and that Sara wasn’t more seriously injured and only had “quite an impressive cut”...
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