Tell me that this has happened to you?

Let me start from the beginning . . .

A while ago I was out with my beautiful mother, we thought we were being good getting in a little pre-Christmas shopping, beating the crowds, and we were feeling pretty proud of ourselves, the first shop we went in was a huge success and we came out with a selection of great pressies, and even had them gift wrapped, “Felling Awesome”!

Second shop we got a little distracted by some tops, I decided to try a selection on as I wanted to make sure they looked good before out laying the cash, okay yes the credit card, shhh. After making my selection we headed over to another section of the store that sells children’s wear, (have you noticed how many adult clothing stores now stock a children’s range also? (I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, these marketing people are smart!) So yes we go along selecting more items to purchase, some Christmas, a couple not. Finally we make it to the register and I go to pull out my purse (you know what’s coming,) it’s gone!

Like GONE, not just the purse, the whole handbag, so I feel myself going into full flight or fight mode, the heartbeat increases, palms sweat, pupils dilate, my thought process flashing, I’m seriously freaking out, how could I be so stupid?!!!!! How could I have just put my handbag down and forgot about it, my beautiful expensive handbag, my newest most favourite handbag with my purse in it with credit cards and cash and lipsticks, hand sanitizer and tissues and the CAR KEYS!!! I won’t even be able to get home, I have to notify the bank, what if someone’s spending on my card as I am thinking stupid thoughts with my stupid dilated pupils and racing heartbeat, I feel sick, mum looks sick, OMG where is my bag?!  (Is this the spending Gods trying to tell me something?)

I race to ask the change room assistant as I remembered hanging it on the hook in the change room as I tried on my tops, frantically explaining to the the assistant that I’ve lost my bag, she looks as panicked as me (I guess she knows this feeling too), we race to the change room, where some poor lady gets asked through her curtain “Is there a bag in there?” She peeks around the curtain looking like a deer in headlights, “Ummmm No,” she pulls the curtain across so the sales girl and I can look in and the poor thing looks a sight with her jeans around her ankles as she tries on a skirt, (this lady must be feeling quite violated by now,) my heart races faster when I realise NO BAG!

The lovely sales girl suggests maybe someone’s handed it in at the front counter so I race over there and YES they have!!!!! What a relief I couldn’t have lived without my hand sanitizer (just kidding), I couldn’t have lived without my purse and car keys, well lived yes, but it wouldn’t have made for a happy ending to my story would it!?

In my defence I was so concerned with not losing the pressies we had just purchased, that it distracted me from my bag, but those pressies so beautifully wrapped almost cost me a lot of money! Thank goodness for good Samaritans who hand in lost property and don’t even take any cash.

I guess it’s “do unto others as” . . . I can’t remember the exact saying but something like, “you wish to be done to you.”

So my tip for today . . . if you don’t want to look like a panicked fool running around a clothing store, violating poor people in change rooms, then hang on tight to your handbags ladies!

Thanks for joining me, love Mackenzie xx

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