She was walking in the store, completely prepared to buy everything she would need. Some items at this store and the rest from another one across town. So she wouldn’t make the cashier nervous about selling her items that were clearly being used to clean up a crime scene. The store smells like sawdust and top soil. She noted the music that plays faintly in the background before it is interrupted by an employee paging someone to help in the paint department. She gathers the trash bags and two bottles of bleach from aisle four. Then she places them on the counter before grabbing some disposable gloves that were hanging on a hook with the other impulse buy items. My total was $17.42 and then I drove 20 minutes across town to the other home improvement store. There I purchase the shovel and black zip ties. This store smells, unmistakably, like manure. Coincidentally it is playing the same song that played at the first store. The look on the cashier’s face made it evident that he noticed that the two items could be used for crime scene clean up, but he didn’t say anything. Just slightly raised his bushy eyebrows as he scanned them. My total here was $25.99. Making the grand total $43.41. Pretty inexpensive for all the items I need to clean up my mess. Little did I know that the first store called the police…