In The Park, On a Fire Engine, In a Building

I had a dream that I was going shopping with MB, HS, and RK. All of their kids ran off to do their own shopping (except HS has a toddler so idk). HS said it wasn't worth shopping without their kids. I suddenly got the impression she meant people without kids were worthless and I snapped at her, told her none of it was my fault and turned and walked away trying to keep from crying. MB came after me & told me that wasn't what HS meant then asked if I wanted to go in on a pizza. Suddenly there was a pizza on a table in front of me and MB was pouring Ranch dressing all over her share. I was still angry and sad and I declined and walked away. We started out at a strip mall under the shelter. I walked out into the open where there was a large park where people were just laying on the grass or walking around a large pond.

I encountered another girl who just started talking to me. I couldn't understand most of what she was saying but I just nodded and conversed back. The pond was on my right and suddenly a ginormous cruise ship pulled up to the side of the pond. I looked up and saw the Captain standing there on the deck. He looked at me and nodded. The girl next to me thought he was hot so I decided to try to set them up together even though I did not know either of their names. The Captain jumped down from the huge cruise ship (jumped. as in a few hundred feet) and walked away. I grabbed the girl's arm and followed him. He walked towards a huge set of risers, the metal/aluminum kind seen at outdoor events like high school football fields or public parks with a baseball diamond. The Captain climbed all the way to the top before I could get his attention. He remained standing & suddenly had a pair of binoculars he looked through, like other people around him. He leaned forward as did several other people standing around him. I noticed they were all leaning forward way too far and before I had a chance to shout up to them, they all went tumbling down the risers knocking over the people in front of them. They all stood back up and climbed back to their seats unharmed. I could not believe it. The girl next to me was so busy talking and looking elsewhere she asked me how everyone ended up at the bottom. "They leaned too far forward," I replied.

I saw a couple of older people, in their late 60's or their 70's, on the bottom seats having some trouble. I walked over to them and asked if they were ok. The woman was having trouble sitting up. I touched her arm and she yelled out in pain. She said everything hurt and she needed to go to the hospital. I thought, "Lawsuit. She is going to sue the pants off everyone she can."

Suddenly I was in a fire engine with someone else who was not the girl and the engine was racing towards the top of a hill, but we had to go in a spiral fashion to get there. There were occasional crowds of people in the way, at one point there was construction going on. In a park. On a hill. The construction crew moved in one direction while the fire engine driver swerved in the other.

We got to the top of the hill only to find other emergency vehicles and no fire. The driver was not too happy. He said something about it costing whoever called $500 if it ended up being a false alarm and he knew the company could not afford it. He started to turn around and head back down the hill but I wanted to stay so I jumped out. I walked toward another building and walked inside. There were some people standing or wandering around. I tried to eavesdrop on conversations as to why emergency vehicles were called. Someone said something about thinking he/she saw smoke and thought the place was on fire.

I wandered through the building. It was just a shell made completely of 2 x 4's, most of them set vertically side by side to form the walls. There was small rooms and tiny closet or other storage spaces. I looked into each one looking for a hiding space of some sort in which someone had hidden an object that I was suddenly looking for specifically. Someone asked me what I was looking for. I replied that it was something my (maternal) grandfather said he hid in that building.

Then I woke up.