lol

So on the way home from work today I stopped to get milk and deli meat. As I was walking through the door and heading towards the deli, I hear, "Manager to the deli department," and a couple other deli related calls over the PA. As I get closer to the deli, an employee from the neighboring bakery department is walking over to the deli department back room, and he's like, "Oh, shit!"

So I'm thinking maybe someone cut themself or something, and that now's a bad time to be going to the deli, so I head over to get milk, on the other end of the store. About when I get to the meat cases, there's another PA announcement, this time, "Attention, customers, there's a fire in the store, please leave your items where they are and evacuate the store." So since I haven't actually gotten anything yet, I turn and start up the aisle to leave the store. Just about when I get to the front of the store, they cancel the evacuation. So I go back an get the milk and head back over to the deli.

Apparently a fryer had caught on fire and it was easily put out, but since the deli manager panicked and called in the fire to customer service, the fire department got called. In the middle of slicing my meat, the guy had to go show the police and the fireman where the problem had been. So by the time I finish checking out, there's a firetruck, a ladder truck, the fire chief, and several police vehicles outside the front of the store. This has been an interesting week. :P