Note: This was a dream of mine. I have this warning here because some visitors have thought my life had just gone to pot, when really they were only reading one of my crazy dreams. :)

I was in Lowe’s with my mom, shopping for decorative plants to put in the hermit crab aquarium. I had a full basket picked out and I was very excited about it, because I couldn’t wait to get home and make their aquarium all pretty. However, I started thinking about it, and realized that not only was I about to spend a lot of money, but also that half the plants I was getting wouldn’t fit in their aquarium because they were too tall. One sales clerk advised me that some of the plants would grow to be huge, too. Sadly, I started to put some plants back. I tried to place a tall, skinny cactus back on its shelf but the plant kept toppling over. I tried several times and then saw my mom nearby, talking with another clerk. At a pause in their conversation, I said loudly, “Mom!” and got her attention. She looked at me with an annoyed expression for having interrupted her talk. I asked her to put the plant back up on the shelf. She kind of waved me off, saying she’d get it in a minute, so I just laid the cactus down in the floor.

I started walking back to my cart and heard my mother yelling that I needed to come and get the cactus. I ignored her but got annoyed myself. When I got to my cart, the sales clerk I had spoken with earlier said snidely, “I knew you weren’t going to pay for all those plants yourself.” I got really angry and shouted at her, “Yes, I was! Why do you think I have this?” I started digging around in my cart for my purse, so that I could show her credit cards and cash. She didn’t look like she believed me, so I went up to her and pointed my finger at her head. I then yelled, “This is the worst clerk ever and this is the worst service I’ve ever had. I won’t be coming back here again.” I then left the basket filled with plants, took my purse, and left.

When I got out to the parking lot, I was still fuming and didn’t want to wait around for my mother. Lowe’s was in a small city with residential houses lining the streets nearby. I started jogging down the sidewalk and crossed the road to go down a residential street. I came to one of the houses and went in. A narrator’s voice come out of nowhere and started talking about picking up a new life with a new family. The voice said that, if one did that, the “first” memory that person would have would be of the last thing that happened in their old life. I did that and some amount of time passed, though I didn’t experience what happened, I just knew it was suddenly a few months later. I had yet to meet my new family, even though I had been living with them. It was nighttime and I was wandering through the house. I came to just outside the kitchen and I heard a low, hissing voice in the kitchen saying something about being lied to. I collapsed on the floor, crying, saying, “They did that to me, too.”