Current mood:

surprised

what quake?
Guess I'm a serious shopper after all. It's the beginning of my 'vacation' (or whatever you call unpaid time between work) and I'm off on a towel hunt (difficult to find the exact shade of green to match my shower curtain) when I go up to the counter and find the salesclerk looking like somebody ran over her dog.

I quickly ask her if she's okay and she says, "There was an earthquake!" I'm thinking it was in Japan or something and her family's been hurt, so I ask, "Where? When?" She looks at me like I'm an idiot and says "Right here! Just now!"

I find to my complete surprise that we just had a 5.8 earthquake (or 5.4, some debate in the news outlets). Seems the floor shook and the shelves swayed. The floor I was walking on and the shelves holding the towels I was examining... and I didn't notice.

Even funnier? When I got home, my cats, who usually start running up the walls BEFORE a temblor hits... slept through it.

Huh. Guess that towel-color-matching thang was really engrossing. (blink)