I thought the challenge was to START a story with the lightning sentence? Good story though. I love the Marco Polo reference at the end.

yeah, I broke two rules. :P I don’t care. The pet store story needed to be told.

No, no, rules were meant to be broken, and you executed this very nicely. Great line: “In a wild game of Marco Polo we located each other in the employee bathroom.”
Note: “and” should be changed to “in” in the final sentence.

no, i meant “and”, I really needed to expand this… see she had to find them in the fish department and lead them to the bathroom as the tornado safe area… but i ran out of characters…