Out running errands, Izzy and I agreed to stop by my sister’s school to print something up for her. She (my sister) has cunningly discovered perhaps the only computer in all of her school that allows her to print documents for gratis. Nice, eh?
So we parked and discovered that most of the doors to the building in question were locked. How did we discover this? We walked around the building and tried them all, of course.
After we made good our entrance, we walked up two flights of stairs and down a couple of hallways to find the magic classroom with the magic computer. Locked.
Three doors into the room and all three were locked.
The older sister was not giving up, she (through the power of the cell phone) directed us down another hall to another door. Also locked. She sighed, “Grr, I thought The Pirate would be in and he could unlock it for you.”
She had me check another office down a hallway with a guy and two girls, all three of whom stared at us trooping past them twice following the directions of the phone person. No luck at that office either.
Just when I thought we would have to give up I spied her, a short, petite little girl that I had met a month or two back. She was one of the older sister’s friends. I remembered her because she has completely given up shaving. Legs. Armpits. You name it, she doesn’t shave it. And there is no shame whatsoever, I met this girl when she was wearing shorts and a tank top. Of course I inspected her to make certain the older sister was not lying. She was not.
Anyway, meanwhile back at the ranch, I whispered into the phone, “Older sister, it’s her, the Non-Shaver.” The older sister said, “OHH! Catch her quick! She can let you in!!” We raced down the hall after her, she had turned a corner… and we turned to walk past those same three staring people over again. We approached and were just about to make the killing when… she ducked into the women’s bathroom.
“Follow her!!” The older sister said. ”No!! I am not chasing her into the bathroom!” I hissed into the phone. So we waited. I still was not certain that this was even the girl, but we waited and when she (finally) came out, she looked straight at Izzy and myself and I could not say a word. I let her walk past. She walked down the hall and disappeared around the corner again. I found my courage (it was down in my boots) and rushed after her – all this is occurring right in front of the three staring people in the hall who, in accordance with their name, kept right on staring with amused expressions on their faces.
We searched that hallway and the next for Non-Shaver and finally found her in a side room of a room with an open doorway. She looked up with a puzzled expression on her face when I said her name. I introduced myself and Izzy and explained what was going on, she laughed and quickly led us to the magic room with the magic computer and unlocked the door for us.
The older sister said later that she and Non-Shaver laughed very hard over the entire affair when she learned of our stalking her around the second floor. I guess it could be funny.
