Picking out a Pumpkin

Wyatt needed a pumpkin to take to school to do pumpkin carving so it was up to me to get the perfect carving pumpkin. He told me about this last week and do you think I took him to get one over the weekend? Nope! I put it off till the last minute something I am good at~sad but true~so yesterday I had no choice but to find a pumpkin or well I couldn't come home after work. I had a few items to get at Shaws so I thought for sure I would find a pumpkin there. Shaws had pumpkins but they were garbage! The stems were gone and well they were garbage like I said! So I got my few items and back on the road to search out a farm stand. Well here in Belmont we do have a farm stand it's actually a farm right on the side of the road I mean step out your front door on the road! I pulled in parked my car and hopped out with my $20.00 bill in hand nothing else~keys, cell phone, pocket book all left in my unlocked windows done car~and lets not forget right on the side of the road! Now you ask where is she going with this pumpkin story?? Well I am getting to it and I feel the details leading up to the actual story help give life to the story I am about to tell!
Now this is what happened~I couldn't have made this one up if I'd wanted to~I walked around looking at all the pumpkins that were placed around the building where they do all their farm stand business. Some were damaged or rotting when I entered the building I saw a sign that said big pumpkins $5.00 and got excited for one this wasn't going to cost me my whole twenty and secondly there were some pretty big pumpkins that looked great for carving. Now I had to take into consideration that Wyatt had to carry this pumpkin to school on the bus and then up the flight of stairs he has to climb just to get into the school so I had to get one that wasn't to big but not to small either. I found one that I thought was perfect and started for the front door of the house attached to the barn/farm stand to pay now I was carrying the pumpkin I had picked out and I rang the door bell~NOTHING! No one answered I went as far as to open the door and call out "Hello! I would like to buy a pumpkin!"~NOTHING. Now I am thinking I have found the perfect pumpkin and there's no one here to sell it to me~DAMN! I walk back to the farm stand and contemplate my situation. I could leave without the pumpkin and come back later or if I had a $5.00 bill I could leave a note saying I had come to buy a pumpkin and here's the money for the one I picked out, but nope I decided there was nooooooo way I was leaving without my pumpkin and since all I had was a twenty I had to find someone to take my money and give me change!! Now I had heard noise coming from somewhere inside the barn or at least I thought I had, but I couldn't see anyone or find anyone. All the while I am carrying this pumpkin that by now is feeling heavy~I decide to set it down in the farm stand find someone somehow and get one the road home. I am determine to march back to the house and walk farther into the house and really yell hello one more time when I hear a noise that sounds like a door closing in the barn. I hurry to the barn and yell "Hello!" and there's this old man~not the most friendly looking old man~standing in the opening. I tell him that I would like to buy a pumpkin~now remember I have already found the pumpkin I want, the pumpkin I have carried around for about 5 minutes already. He looks at me and points to a door in the barn that goes down to the basement and says go throught that door down stairs and pick out a pumpkin. Now I know what your thinking~she already picked a pumpkin out why would she go down stairs in the barn???!!! I have to admit this is the craziest part of my story~I went down those stairs never said a word about the pumpkin I had already picked out not a word! And this is what was running through my head~Oh my god I am going to go downstair and he is going to lock me down there and I will never get out it's days before Halloween and this is like a scene out of a scary movie! If I had been watching myself on a tv I would have been yelling don't be stupid everyone knows if you go down stairs your dead~you'll never leave! Any my car with all my personal belongings will be taken and hidden and no one will know I was there! But by god I went down those stairs! And there were all kinds of pumpkins and a big open door~so I had my escape route if the grumpy old farmer decided he wanted to keep me!! haha! I found a great medium size pumpkin for Wyatt~even better than the one I had seen up stairs and I marched up and paid the old fella and brought the pumpkin home for Wyatt~So now Wyatt when you read this someday you will know the great measures your mother had to go through to get the best pumpkin for you to carve! The End!