The Mom Look

The big snowfall they were predicting we'd get yesterday turned out to be not such a big deal.  The original forecast was for six to eight inches of snow, but they kept revising it throughout the day. When all was said and done, we had a thin layer of ice topped with somewhere between one and two inches of snow.

However, in anticipation of another big winter event most of the schools announced a snow day. When I pulled into the mall parking lot this morning there weren't many cars there.   At 10:00 I turned on the lights at the Customer Service desk.  It took fifteen minutes before I had my first question.  As the day drug on, though, traffic picked up.  There were a lot of people taking advantage of the mall's warmth.

About 1:00, I saw a group of middle-school-aged boys all wearing baseball caps and shirts with mall-store logos.  They were a bit noisy, but not causing any trouble.  As they passed the desk one of them looked over at me and said "hi"; the others followed suit.  They walked away from me poking at each other as only pre-adolescent males do.

Five minutes later I heard a commotion. The group of boys came running back towards me at full speed, one of them holding a baseball cap in his hand. His friend was behind him yelling "gimme back my hat!"  The rest of the group was laughing.  They thought the whole thing was hilarious.

I knew they were just playing, but it had to stop. When they got even with the desk I got their attention and gave them my stern "mom look". They immediately stopped running, but once they were out of eyerange I heard them start again.

That's OK. I knew Security would take care of it.

Five years ago today: Square Business