Characters: Mom, Anne
Setting: The living room
Scene: A Friday night. Mom and Anne are trying to decide on something to do because it is Anne's last night in Colorado before she heads back for Montana.
Mom (eagerly): How about bowling?
Anne (with a yawn): Yeah....I don't know. I kinda just went the other night with my friends.
Mom: Okay...what about mini-golf?
Anne: Hmm...maybe...
Mom: A movie?
Anne (looks at mom): Really? On my last night? We've been watching TV all day!
Mom: Yeah, you're right, I don't really want to watch a movie either now that you mention it. Hmm..
Anne: What about Color Me Mine? We could go...paint...stuff.
Mom (shakes her head): Nah. Well...since we can't think of anything, why don't we just start by getting out of the house? I need to go mail some stuff and pick up some things at Walmart anyway.
The two head to Walmart, still racking their brains for ideas of what to do next. They finally settle on just getting frozen yogurt. But first...Walmart.
Setting: Walmart
Scene: Anne and Mom are walking past the school supply aisle. A man with big gages in his ears and a blonde woman begin to approach them.
Man: Are you guys like a mother-daughter team?
Mom (confused): Umm...yes?
Man: So you guys are just kinda hanging out at Walmart? Got nothing to do on a Friday night?
Anne (shrugs): Yeah....
Woman: Well, we have these tickets to a Brian Regan show tonight at the Pikes Peak Center, do you guys know who that is?
Anne nods her head vigorously. Mom shrugs.
Man: He's a really funny comedian, and he's really clean too. Anyway, we just decided that we don't want to go anymore, so if you guys want, you can totally just have our tickets and go enjoy your evening!
Mouths agape, Mom and Anne just kind of look at each other for a while. Finally...
Mom: Well...can we pay you for them?
Woman: No, no, no. I work at radio station, so I get these kinda things all the time for free.
Man (handing Mom the tickets): Yeah, you guys just go and have fun!
The man and woman then walk away, smiling. Anne and Mom are left standing in the aisle, flabbergasted. They look at the tickets and then at Anne's cell phone for the time. They have 2 solid hours before the doors open downtown.
Mom: Well! What a blessing! Looks like we found what we're doing tonight!
Anne: I'll say! And we still have time for Fro-Yo!
On Anne's last night home in Colorado, she and her mother soak in a phenomenal and totally RANDOM night of laughter. Oh, and Brian Regan just so happens to be Anne's favorite comedian (the one whose YouTube videos she spent countless hours watching with her roommate her freshman year of college and who she's been dying to see live). Yeah. What are the odds?
WHATTTTT?!?!?!?! Anne, you are a blessed person. That was a Walmart miracle. But seriously that is so funny and amazing! I am unexplainably happy just reading this post.
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