When I was in high school I worked at TCBY. One night while I was washing dishes in the back, I heard on the radio that there was a bank robbery on the other side of town and 4 men had escaped in a white van. I went back to washing dishes and didn't really think much of it at the time. Fast forward a few hours. Right after we closed that night I heard a knock on the door and I looked up to find a man standing there. Behind him was a white van...He began shouting at me through the window. I thought he was shouting..."It's a stick up hit the floor!" so I quickly dropped down on the ground and army crawled my way to the back of the store. I started screaming at the girl working with me to run out the back door and save herself. As I was on the phone with the 911 operator I heard the ding of the front door and a man appeared around the corner. Truthfully I nearly peed my pants! He looked at me and calmly said, "We're here to do your floors!" Just then his 75 year old grandfather came around the corner. Apparently they were the floor cleaning crew for our building. I felt like a complete moron!! If that wasn't bad enough the cops showed up a few minutes later and I had to explain to everyone what was going on.
Now I admit...I was a little paranoid back then, but in my defense...I had good reason to be. Every store in the stip mall, except ours, had been robbed and I thought it was finally our turn.
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