Chapter XIII - IT WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE MORNING

Patriciaaaaah, Jane is here!

I was just heading out to go to the Safeway to get some bread when Patricia’s sister Jane pulled up on our driveway. Almost every day she arrived at the same time in the morning with her little ones, David’s cousins, Jamie and Katie. Jamie, 2½ years older was like a big brother to David, and Katie like his sister, she was just a little bit older. Patricia and Jane were like peas and carrots, sisters and best friends, inseparable, no matter the distance. They were happy to be together again, always something to talk, whisper or giggle about.

The kids were unloaded, Katie with her uncombed blond hair pointing in all directions, and her little pink blanket, she went nowhere without it, and Jamie already found David and despite the early morning hour they were right away running around in the yard yelling “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtles on a half-shell!”

Sometimes they had enough of the turtles and then the singing interchanged into “Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters, who you’re gonna call, Ghostbusters….”

The kids of course watched TV and they had seen the commercials for the newest addition to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collection, Master Splinter.

WE NEED MASTER SPLINTER!

So we planned that afternoon to go to Toys ‘R Us to see if we could score Master Splinter. We phoned the store if they had some and they told us: “The Turtles are expected to come in this morning, some customers are already waiting, you better be here in time”

As we took the demands of our little ones seriously we stepped in our cars and headed to the Toys ‘R Us store on Route 40, because it sounded like serious business to score a couple.

We were totally hyped up not to come home empty-handed, it might even be that we were more excited about it than the kids.

We walked straight to the aisle where we expected the Turtles to be but the shelves still looked like an army went through, empty as empty can be.

“I will go to the front desk and look if they have them in”, I told Jane and Patricia, and they knew that I didn’t take no for an answer. Like I did the wonder myself I came running back to them, “they are here, they are here, they’re bringing them over!!”

So a guy from the store came on his pallet truck with this giant carton box and told us, and all the other mothers and grandmothers to go to the side so he could dump his enormous load of Turtles in the Turtles aisle. He swiftly, before we all would try to destroy the box, jumped off his pallet truck and pulled out his box cutter, with several quick cuts he was able to cut off the top of the box and he hurried to safer grounds.

MASTER SPLINTER WAS NOW WITHIN OUR REACH!

We scored within minutes, not only two Master Splinters but also all the others we still needed.

It was an unforgettable morning!