Post by spacegold on Jan 20, 2007 15:08:34 GMT -5
Two ladies carrying their Dillard's shopping bags toward their car in a hot Texas parking lot noticed a freshly dead cat. No smell, no flies. One of them wondered how the poor thing happened to be out in the parking lot to get run over. She decided to take it home and give it decent burial.
Transferring her purchases to her friend's bag, she picked up the dead animal with a piece of newspaper and dropped it into her bag. The ladies planned to walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch after leaving their purchases in the car. They opened the car trunk and deposited the bag with the spoils of their shopping trip, but decided it would not be a good idea to put the deceased cat in the trunk, as it was a scorcher of a day in Texas. So they left the bag sitting on the trunk and went off to lunch.
At the restaurant they were seated at a window table in sight of their vehicle. After they ordered their food, they saw a woman in a gingham dress stroll through the parking lot. As she passed their car, she noticed the Dillard's bag on the trunk, snatched it off without looking right or left, and continued on her way. The two woman just looked at each other, flabbergasted.
Scarce minutes later who should they see going through the cafeteria line, but the woman in the gingham dress, still carrying the shopping bag. She paid for her lunch and went to a booth where she set the bag down at the end of the table as she seated herself. She began eating, and then apparently decided to see what she had purloined. Looking about a bit furtively, but not far enough to make eye contact with the two ladies, she moved the bag up onto her lap, reached in and removed the newspaper. Then she peered in to see what she had.
The next thing the ladies saw was this woman's eyes getting wide as she sucked in a big breath of air and began choking on whatever she was eating. Trying to rise, she fell out of the booth unable to breath or stand. A waiter ran over and began a Heimlich maneuver as the cashier dialed 911. Seven minutes later when the paramedics arrived, the food had been dislodged, but the woman was unconscious and breathing raggedly. The scene was busy as the paramedics prepped her for the ambulance, the manager gathered up her belongings, and she was bustled out to the ambulance on a gurney.
The last the two ladies saw of her as the ambulance doors closed was laid out on the gurney with the Dillard's bag perched on her stomach.
Transferring her purchases to her friend's bag, she picked up the dead animal with a piece of newspaper and dropped it into her bag. The ladies planned to walk to a nearby restaurant for lunch after leaving their purchases in the car. They opened the car trunk and deposited the bag with the spoils of their shopping trip, but decided it would not be a good idea to put the deceased cat in the trunk, as it was a scorcher of a day in Texas. So they left the bag sitting on the trunk and went off to lunch.
At the restaurant they were seated at a window table in sight of their vehicle. After they ordered their food, they saw a woman in a gingham dress stroll through the parking lot. As she passed their car, she noticed the Dillard's bag on the trunk, snatched it off without looking right or left, and continued on her way. The two woman just looked at each other, flabbergasted.
Scarce minutes later who should they see going through the cafeteria line, but the woman in the gingham dress, still carrying the shopping bag. She paid for her lunch and went to a booth where she set the bag down at the end of the table as she seated herself. She began eating, and then apparently decided to see what she had purloined. Looking about a bit furtively, but not far enough to make eye contact with the two ladies, she moved the bag up onto her lap, reached in and removed the newspaper. Then she peered in to see what she had.
The next thing the ladies saw was this woman's eyes getting wide as she sucked in a big breath of air and began choking on whatever she was eating. Trying to rise, she fell out of the booth unable to breath or stand. A waiter ran over and began a Heimlich maneuver as the cashier dialed 911. Seven minutes later when the paramedics arrived, the food had been dislodged, but the woman was unconscious and breathing raggedly. The scene was busy as the paramedics prepped her for the ambulance, the manager gathered up her belongings, and she was bustled out to the ambulance on a gurney.
The last the two ladies saw of her as the ambulance doors closed was laid out on the gurney with the Dillard's bag perched on her stomach.
