Dressing Room Dangers


So, Jayden and I were out shopping for some clothes today. I grab some stuff to try on and we head to the dressing room, while Jayden grabs as many things as he can off of hangers proclaiming the whole time, “Look at this mom, it’s really, really cute”. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it is on a hanger and on the wall. He grabbed some big ole ginormous silky granny pannies off the wall and told me how cute they were. Not really my idea of cute, but whatever. Anyways, I sit Jayden up on the bench in the dressing room, give him some crackers to munch on, and start trying some shirts on. I can hear that there is some construction going on behind the wall of the dressing room, but I really didn’t think anything of it. That is, until I look over at Jayden who has this total look of panic on his face and is literally being bounced off the wall. He says, “Mom, the wall banging.” I slide him a little ways away from the wall so I can see what the heck is happening, and right when I do, a sledge hammer comes crashing through the wall and hits Jayden right in the back. What are the freaking chances? It’s not like it was a small skinny little bench, it was a long bench along the entire wall, and a sledge hammer comes through the wall right in the place where Jayden had been sitting. Luckily, I had pulled Jayden away, so not much of the hammer got him, it was mostly the wall that got pushed through, but it totally left a red mark on his back. I immediately start yelling at the guys on the other side of the wall, quickly put my shirt back on, grab Jayden and head out to find someone. As I walked out of the dressing room, someone comes walking by and I’m like, “You might want to close these dressing rooms, as a sledge hammer just came through the wall and hit my son in the back.” (uh, not to mention, I was in a freaking dressing room, where I really don’t expect holes in the walls to appear as half my clothes are off) They have me fill out an accident report and they take pictures of Jayden’s back, and keep assuring me that if something is wrong they will pay for everything. Jayden keeps looking at the guy and going, ‘My back hurt, my back hurt’ I’m not really too worried about it, he won’t even have a bruise from the whole thing, but still the potential for something really bad could of happened. If they guy on the other side of the wall had really swung that hammer through the wall with more force and hit Jayden, he could of done some major damage. If I had my head on straight I should of demanded free clothes for the rest of my life, but really I was just a little shocked at what had happened and very grateful that Jayden wasn’t really hurt. So, we left and went into another store to see what we could find there. We went into the dressing room, Jayden refused to sit on the bench saying the whole time, “wall banging”. Great, one more thing he’s gonna have to work out about his mom in therapy.

5 Comments

  1. Comment by Royal on July 30, 2008 2:41 pm

    I still can not believ that particular incident occurred. We are very lucky he was not seriously hurt.

  2. Comment by nana on July 30, 2008 11:54 pm

    I am really mad and shocked that whole incident happened….i think you should contact jessie jones (king 5 news) and let him go after the people responsible….which would at the very least be the manager of the store….or the board of directors and perhaps even the ceo! i bet a call to a local news paper would get jayden’s picture on the front page!!!!!
    give him a hug and kiss from me….can’t wait to see the little pumpkin and you and the other little pumpkin….and royal!!!!

  3. Comment by Amy on July 31, 2008 1:32 pm

    Good lord! Do things like this happen to you just because you’re so good at writing about them?!
    I agree with Nana - make a little more of a stink about it!
    Miss you!

  4. Comment by Jaynee on August 1, 2008 12:27 pm

    Oh My Gosh! What a horrible experience! Did the guy with the sledge hammer even know what had happened? It would have been funny to reach your hand through the hole and give him a little wave or somethin’ ( i’m not into nasty little gestures but…)haha.
    I’m really glad that Jayden wasn’t hurt badly.

  5. Comment by Brynn on August 1, 2008 3:51 pm

    What no pictures? No but really- glad you two are O.K. it must have been very traumatic, something that you wouldn’t imagine happening!

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