Have You Seen My Mom?

Mom and I are planning a trip this Memorial Day weekend. In preparation, she directed me to drop her off at a local shopping area in order that she might shop for a new dress. I was instructed to "get lost and leave her alone" for 2 hours. I returned at the appointed time to the designated pick up location, but NO MOM!! I searched through every store in the area for over an hour! Just when I have thoroughly convinced myself that, prior to my arrival, she was either whisked away in an ambulance or abducted by aliens in a spaceship, I see her in a storefront waving at me! She's standing behind a shopping cart full of everything but that dress she just had to have!!!