Personal Narrative: My Trip To Sears

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It was Saturday and my friend Cindy and I went shopping. We went to a couple stores and found nothing. However, when we were about to give up we decided to go to Sears; we had never gone there before so maybe there was something that we would like. After picking up some clothes we went to the dressing room where Cindy noticed two old men following us, she got in the same dressing room with me so she could warn me about the men outside. I immediately freaked out I started multitasking, walking back and forth and praying for our safety. I was so scared I almost cried. Cindy tried calming me down and as I was more calmed we started trying the clothes on. When we finished we went straight to the cashier which was right in front of the front door. …show more content…
After arguing we showed him our bags and receipts. They said they were undercover Sears workers and their job was to look out for “people like us”. As their insistence rose I became more scared so I called my mom and informed her what was happening. My mom told me to put the men of the phone and tell them that we were under aged and when I did one man said “we do not want to speak to your mom, we are speaking to you come back to Sears with us so we can fix this problem”. This is when we freaked out. Sears was closed. It was 9:16 and everything was closed by that time. A real worker would have taken the phone and said “look ma’am we have your daughter here as a suspect of robbery” or …show more content…
She agued with one of the men, when the other one came up to me and said “ look mija if you did not steal anything and your friend did, just tell me. We’ll let you go and we’ll just take her”. At this moment I did not know what to do I was so scared I thought “this is it, I’m getting kidnapped” but somehow I just stopped walking and told the men “we did not steal anything we already showed you all of our bags and tickets I think that’s enough to prove that we didn’t take anything” Cindy joined me in the argument and tried to make them leave us alone. One of the men then realized he was wasting his time and said to the other “so what man? Should we let them go?. You know that if we do we’re going to get in trouble, but it’s your call” at that point there was a moment of silence, I prayed for the answer to be yes I wanted to leave, I was still frightened and I could tell Cindy was too even though she tried hiding it. After about 5 minutes the guy said “okay just let them go” I was so relieve. Cindy and I started walking toward the entrance of the mall once again. This time we fast walked and I turned back about every two seconds. I was afraid the men would come back for