Exercise 3- Part 2

A variety of Christmas songs are playing one after the other in the store. People start coming in, cold, running into the store knowing that it will be warmer than the outdoor weather. As this particular family comes in, consisting of six individuals, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and 2 kids, a girl who is four years old, and the boy is almost six years old. The grand parents just walk through the store, very slowly, enjoying the items on display and talking about how they love Christmas because all of their sons and daughters and their children come and spend at least 2 weeks at their house.

The father automatically goes to the electronics department, “just looking” at the new flat screen TVs and the computers and the phones, and he is just looking because he promised his wife not to spend too much money on things they don’t need. The mother on the other hand, takes both kids and goes to the house ware department, she wants to get a new dinning set for her home because she will be hosting thanksgiving dinner and Christmas eve’s dinner, and by dinning set she does not just want plates, no, she wants the table cloth, the plates, the silver ware the glasses, everything, so she will not be deciding what she will buy any time soon. The kids are just running around the store, staying near their mother, as they were told, but also doing some shopping for themselves as well. Whenever they find anything they like, they pick it up and go straight to their mother asking her to buy it for them with a huge smile, and all they get in return is “ put that back where you got it! We are not here to buy none sense!” As the mother raises her voice yelling at the children, people look at her, but as soon as they realize she is actually yelling at her kids, no one actually looks at her for more than a second, simply because it is expected that something like that will happen.

The family browses around the store looking for things to catch their attention, the kids playing and laughing and picking things randomly off the shelves taking them to their mother, convincing her to buy it for them. the mother at this point had already found what she wanted, and was very happy with her decision, so she puts it in her shopping cart and starts paying attention to her children. She goes with them where ever they want and looks for things on sale and things that have offers and such, with help for the grandparents, they manage to talk to a couple of workers there that helped them find what they were looking for. The kids were thrilled that they got new things, it didn’t matter to them whether they really wanted it or not, all they cared about was getting new things, in the spirit of the holidays of course.

After hours of looking around, talking, yelling and deciding, the mother was ready to pay, so she told her son to go get his father so they can leave. As the mother looks up to search for her husband she realizes how busy the store got, then she looks at her wristwatch to realize that she has been shopping for almost three hours now. She turns to her kids and asks them where they want to eat with a smile, and they choose burger king, so the mother and father pay for their things and go to grab something to eat before they head home.