Monday, November 25, 2013

Well, that's awkward..

Good morning guys! So I finally got the iPhone 5s in gold on Friday so I am excited about that, plus Brian and I went to our fav restaurant to celebrate...drumroll please... that I got an awesome job! Yup, I start December 9th! :-) Woop! Saturday we celebrated my sister's birthday, and Sunday was lazy.

Anyways, I'm here today to talk to you about.. something extremely embarrassing. In fact, when I did my most embarrassing moments post, I completely forgot to include this. I don't know how I could forget it though because it was one of the most mortifying moments in my life. Why am I sharing it with you if it's that embarrassing, you might ask? Because it's Monday and I'm sure most people could use a laugh at my expense, I don't mind :-) 

So anyways, let's set the scene: I'm a brand new freshman in college (as in, I think it was still August and I don't even know if classes had really started yet), and an older acquaintance of mine who I knew from home was making a Walmart run. Well given that I didn't have a car and needed some supplies, I tagged along. 

18 year old me

On the way there, his other friend and he decided they were hungry and wanted to stop at McDonalds. We all get out of the car and immediately we hear a loud noise. "Is that your car alarm?" I asked him. He answered, "My car doesn't even have power locks, no way does it have a car alarm." Alriiiiighty then, well we were in the city and there were lots of cars around so I just shrugged and figured it must be one of them. 

With no more thought given to the sound, we walk into the McDonalds and hear the same noise again, only 20 times louder. Welp, that was where the noise was coming from, I assumed their fire alarm was going off because someone had opened an emergency exit door or something...

Except no. No no no. As soon as we walked through the door every single person in the McDonalds stopped what they were doing and stared at us. And when I say stared, I mean full-blown, who-the-eff-do-you-think-you-are-STARED. We were a little weirded out and figured we set off some alarm when we walked in the door, but whatever, someone would turn it off right?


Wrong. We walked up to the counter and stood there and waited to be served (meanwhile, the alarm is screeching AS LOUD AS YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE), but everyone just kept staring at us. Finally one of the guys I was with was like, "excuse me? Aren't you going to ask us what we want?" And the employee was like, "uhh no? That noise didn't start til you came in.. what the hell is going on with you guys?"

We were visibly annoyed at this point. The guys explained that there is no way we could have made that noise happen, told the employee they needed to get their alarm system under control and figure it out. The employees explained that their alarm system did NOT sound like the terrible screeching noise echoing off every wall of the building. They asked us to check our cell phones and make sure nothing we had with us was making that noise. We were like "okayyyy" and rolled our eyes, irritated.

I checked my phone and threw it back in my purse, then smacked the side of my purse to be like "See? Not me?" Except that when I did that THE NOISE STOPPED. Sweet relief (for me and everyone in the store) but yup, the noise had been coming from me all along. I could have died. Right there. On that spot. Just melted in a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West: "What a world, what a world!"

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The employees gave us a look like "told ya so," and I begged the boys to leave, but they wanted to eat and so eat they did while I sat there like Hester Prynne with a big scarlet letter on my chest, everyone staring and whispering about me.


When we finally got to the car, the boys finally asked me what in the heck made that noise. I was still at a loss, so I dug through my purse and lo and behold, it was a rape alarm, similar to this one found here. The description says, in part, "The ear splitting noise is 130 decibels and sounds like a bit like a car alarm." Well yea, I'll vouch for that!!

Dad had given it to me when I worked at a rest stop and I never used it (thus the reason I wasn't aware what it sounded like). I conveniently left it at home when I went away to college. Apparently not though, because my Dad found it and stuck it in my purse and I didn't realize. So when we got out of the car that day, the pin that engaged the alarm came loose in my purse and set it off. When we went inside the McDonald's it became all that much louder because of the confined space. When I hit the side of my purse, the pin must have gone back in and stopped the noise. Super awesome.  

So thanks Dad for pretty much getting me banned from McDonalds, haha. Okay I'm not actually banned but I can bet you money that any employee who had been working that day would remember, because honestly, how could you forget that?! Needless to say, that alarm was removed from my purse, though it probably would have actually been a decent defense given the looks of shock people gave me that day in McDonalds! 

The moral of the story? Check your purse before you go to McDonalds... 

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P.S. I'm involved in a great giveaway for a $165 Ulta or Sephora gift card with Chelsea at Southern Beauty Guide! May the odds be ever in your favor :-)


20 comments:

  1. So, so happy about your job! New iPhones are a plus too.

    That is hilarious! You played it off pretty cool though, I probably would have bolted out of the McDonald's door and ran back to my house, lol. At least you knew after that point what it sounded like! Ha ha.

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  2. Oh my gosh, that story is hilarious, but I would have been mortified!

    Yay for a new job and iPhone!!

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  3. Hahah that is awesome. Your dad is actually really sweet to have snuck it into your bag. He wanted to protect you even if he wasn't physically there. I'm glad you hadn't had to use it so you didn't know what it sounded like.

    And yay yay yay! Congrats on the job!!

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  4. Congrats on the new job! That's always exciting, especially when you've worked hard for it! Well done! :)

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  5. hahahahaha thats not a story you hear everyday.

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  6. Hahaha that's hilarious! And embarrassing but mostly hilarious!

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  7. Haha this is too funny! I would have just died lol

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  8. Haha at least it was an honest mistake! But I don't blame you - I would have wanted to at least order my food to go and eaten it in the car.

    And congrats on the new job! What area of law are you interested in?

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  9. BAHAHAHAHA... dying! Congrats on the new job!!!! :D

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  10. haha this is the greatest story! Congrats on your new job!

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  11. Bahahahahaha omg a rape alarm went off?! That is priceless.

    Congratulations on the new job, lady! That is SO dang exciting!

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  12. Congrats on the new job!! You'll do great!

    Hahaha...I probably would have waited at the car for them to finish eating if that had been me. Too funny!

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  13. hahaha oh my god. thats so funny!!!! if i were in mcd's i'd be staring at you too :) and probably giving snarky looks!!!!!

    congrats on the new job :)

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  14. BHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!! That's soooo funny and totally something that would happen to me too! Hilarious!

    -Kate
    www.theflorkens.com

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  15. Love the hunger game reference ;) LOVE even more you got a job!!! YAY!

    Oh and my parents got me a rape whistle when I was in college. A guy friend took it away from me at a bar because I thought it was a fun idea to blow it. So really it served 0 purpose in case of an actual situation!

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  16. Oh my god! That is amazing! At least now you know if you're getting violated that at least people will come see what that annoying noise is! ;)

    Oh and hey! I nominated you for a Liebster Award!
    (I'm not entirely sure who wins what or when BUT so far it seems like a fun thing to be part of!)
    There are deetz and rules and stuff on my blog
    LittleBirdBlogs and a Liebster

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  17. Oh my gosh, I would have DIED!!!

    ...but...

    Congratulations on the new job!!!

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  18. Congrats on the new job again! :)

    I wouldn't have known what a rape alarm sounded like either.

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  19. Yay, congrats on the job!!! And oh man, that story is priceless!

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