I was up late Thursday night working on a project for a client. At about 1am I decided I need to take a break for a few minutes, so I headed down to the corner CVS to get some TUMS and Chocolate Milk. (I had heartburn, and I was thirsty. Dont judge me.)
CVS is open 24 hours a day, so when I nearly walked into the glass doors when they didn’t open, it surprised me a little. I must have looked like a stunned bird after running into a window, because three employees with panicked looks ran over to the door waving their hands at me yelling that they were closed.
A little shocked, I headed back to my car, but before I could get in, a police car zoomed into the parking lot and stopped right behind my car. A female officer jumped out, pulled her gun and started jogging towards the building. As she passed me, She asked. “Were you just in there?”
I told her “No, they wouldn’t let me in.”
She asked “Did you notice anything strange going on??”
I said “Well, the fact they didn’t let me in was pretty strange.”
After giving me a slightly annoyed look, she ran to the edge of the building and started scooting down the wall peeking in the windows. I never realized exactly how silly this move made somebody look when it wasn’t in a cop show or movie, because she looked really silly. She was hiding behind walls and peeking in windows, and I was only 10 feet away from her in a wide open parking space. hmmm. I hopped back in the car, it was probably a little safer place to watch from.
A couple minutes later, she was inside the building talking to the customers and employees. Well, it didn’t look like I was going to see any gun play, so I decided it was time to go, but before I could leave, two more police cars pulled into the parking lot blocking my ability to back out. Damn, I was stuck.
After about 5 minutes, and several camera phone pics later. I decided I was going to get out of there anyway. I managed to twist my car out of the parking spot, praying the whole time “Please don’t let me hit a police car… please don’t let me hit a police car.”
I headed to the other parking lot exit, but as I rounded the building I saw 4 more police cars. There was just enough space to squeeze behind them to leave, so I started creeping toward the exit, but before I could get there, one of the officers went to the back of his car to get into his trunk, blocking my way. I was about 15-20 feet from him with my car aimed at the exit. It felt pretty awkward, but I just sat there and watched him. He got into his trunk and stared pulling out this BIG gun. Just as he lifted it out of the trunk, he turned his gaze towards me and screamed “TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS!!”
When a police officer holding a BIG gun screams at you from 15 feet away to turn off your lights, you do it. So I did it. Then I backed my car into another spot and waited anther 10 minutes. Once things died down I made a dash for the exit and got outta there.
I decided Walgreens was probably a safer place to shop that night.
Sidenote, the TUMS fixed the heartburn and the chocolate milk was delicious.
they’re such hypocrits, they say it’s 24 hours but they always close it after I rob them.
yeah, too bad about the closing. well, unless you wanted whitebread, and i’m sure darthreilly took all that.