Ask Madden

What up. Its been a while, I should probably talk about prom (had a really great time dancing and stuff, everyone looked great, very happy I got to take Nicole), or after prom (good times), or graduation (nice post graduation bbq), or my first day of work (everyone was happy to see me again, all the usuals at the Thiells Custodial Office, and now Adam works with me too which is very cool), or helping Nic pack for her trip (I miss her and I hope shes having fun) or even orientation (our orientation leaders were the shit, and again I did some dancing, met some cool people, and generally had an awesome time), but no. Maybe next time. I decided to post because of something that happened today. I went to shoprite to buy a magazine called Billboard because our professor told us to buy it, so I got there and this lady is shouting at this other lady about something that just got away from her. I thought she was talking about her bags or something that someone stole, a little crazy, whatever. So I go inside, and shoprite staff, dressed in their aprons, are moving around the whole store very creepily. It becomes more apparent that they are looking for something. Soon the crazy lady is talking to a very official looking manager type-person, and I overhear the situation. Her daughter, wearing all yellow, disappeared. She dropped some corn, and her mother went to pick it up; by the time she turned around her daughter was gone. So now I see the panic in every shoprite employees eyes, searching for this little girl. I felt a little helpless. Here I am in a potentially life ruining situation for some poor woman, the whole store looking for this little girl and I'm looking for the magazine rack. Not to be labeled heartless, I wanted to help. I realized the girl probably left the store or they would have found her already, and I decided to go outside. I'd like to say in a climatic turn of events I found the girl hiding in the bagel deli and brought her back myself, but shoprite staff had my idea two minutes before and found her outside somewhere before I even left the store. The PA came on and announced her safety, and everyone let out a huge sigh. I don't know why but it felt profound in some way, the panic, the mothers attitude, the sudden cooperation of an entire store of people with lives and schedules and things to do all searching for one little yellow clad girl. But what do I know, I clean an elementary school for a living. Hey I brought my scraper from last year to impress Mike that I didn't lose it, and he gave me an official custodian shirt (and bought me breakfast too). I'm going to wear it every day I possibly can to work. I cleaned out a lot of my room last night because I had nothing to do, attempting to deal with my issues with girlfriends and vacations (don't ask). But Nic is awesome, I would never doubt her, and so is napping, so I think thats where I'm headed. Tomorrow a short day, since its fourth of July weekend we get out early. This weekend is graduation parties galore. And Monday its the fourth of July. I like summer.