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Narrative Essay

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As a small child, parents have always taught their little bundle of joy never to wander

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around in the store, to always stick by them like super glue, and if need be, always hold

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their hand. Of course, there is no guarantee that the child will ever follow this simple rule

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willingly. Almost always, it requires disobedience and/or a life-changing experience to

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either set the child straight or make the parent take drastic measures in the future. This
is the perfect summary as to the event that occurred in a New York Macy’s Department

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Store when I was four years old.

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The Christmas holiday season was very hectic. My mother wanted to finish her holiday
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shopping, but unfortunately, none of my babysitters were available and my father was at
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work, so Mom had no other course of action except to take me along with her. At the
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entrance to Macy’s, Mom told me loud and clear: “Do not wander away from me in the
store. I want you to stay right next to me at all times.” She could’ve screamed it through
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a megaphone, however, my teeny tiny brain refused to heed her words of command
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because we weren’t even in the store for two seconds and I was already tearing off through
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the establishment like a rabid monkey.

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For the next hour or so, my mom was constantly begging me to stop wandering around
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and stay with her, but all I did was disobey her time and time again. I would stand next
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to her for a few minutes just to satisfy her, but the moment her back was turned, I was
off again just like that. I believe by the twentieth time I had gone off to some new section
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of the department store, she’d given up and figured, “Maybe if I let her explore every nook
and cranny, she’ll get tired and come back…” Then again, this is a four-year-old she was
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dealing with, so “tired” was basically thrown out of the window.

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By this time, I’d found my way into the Men’s Clothing section, but in actuality, I was
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searching for the toy area. I never made it there because my eyes fell upon a few Bullwinkle
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stuffed animals atop a sweater display. My mind forgot about the going to the toy area
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instantly. Now, mind you, even a four-year-old has some weight to them, and I was no
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different. The glass perfume case that was just mere feet away from the display only made
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the inevitable worse.

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So in my determination to get that toy, I started climbing the sweater display.

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Everything was fine until I reached the top… My weight was too much for the weak exhibit
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and it tipped right over into the glass perfume case. It shattered into a million pieces and
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the commotion from it echoed throughout the entire store. A few minutes later, my mom,
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the store manager, and a few other concerned (and nosy) customers came over to see what
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the heck was going on.

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When I crawled out of the broken glass clutching one of the stuffed animals, the two

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questions on everyone’s lips was, “Is she okay? Is she hurt?” Miraculously, I wasn’t hurt

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at all. Thanks to my coat and other clothing, not one shard of glass had cut me. After

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confirming that I was perfectly fine, my mother grabbed me, endlessly apologized to the
store manager and offered to pay for all the damages; however, the store manager told her

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not to worry about it since he was just relieved that I wasn’t harmed.

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What my four-year-old self didn’t know was that my mom was afraid that Macy’s would

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sue her for the damage, yet the store manager was terrified that my mom would try to sue
the store because of the potential injuries I could have sustained. Later at the checkout

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counter, Mom noticed that I was still holding the plush toy and she ordered me to put me

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it back, but at that moment, the store manager walked up behind the clerk at the counter

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and informed us that he would give it to me for free, which of course, made me a very

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happy kid.

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To prevent history from repeating itself, Mom bought a dog leash from the pet store.

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From then on, before setting foot in any store, Mom would loop one end of the leash around

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my waist and hold the other end. Naturally, when other patrons in the stores saw my

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mother restraining me with a leash, they questioned her and accused her of being a
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barbaric parent, but she always answered with the same explanation: “I’m just protecting
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