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Window shopping (literally and figuratively) at HomeDepot during lunch today. As I'm leaving, I stop in the exit vestibule to get a hot dog from the mini cafe they have set up. The vestibule is completely enclosed with inner and outer store doors, about 200-300 sq ft.

I'm 3rd in line, and there is one lady dishing out the dogs. A guy exits the store with a cart full of the longest fluorescent tubes I've ever seen. Must have been 8'-10' in length, and he had a ton of them. I only get a brief look at him, and then go back to looking at my phone.

Just as the inner store doors close behind him, BOOM. Not just any boom, but the loudest boom I've ever been exposed to in my life. Car backfire, shotgun...nothing compared to the sound I heard, echoing off of the walls in this vestibule.

In the movies, when a large bomb goes off, and the person just stands there in a daze while a high-pitched squeal slowly gains volume in their ears? Yeah, exactly like that in real life.

About 15 seconds go by before the four of us (not including light-bulb guy) regain our senses and realize what had happened. The light bulb guy had already made a break for it. He left his cart, and a room filled with broken glass shards covering every inch of it.

Employees start to chase after the guy. Another calls 911, thinking a bomb went off. The rest of us, ears still ringing, started picking glass out of our hair, clothes, and skin. The hot dog lady lost her entire inventory.

10 hours later, my ears are still not back to normal. I'm still picking glass out of my clothes. Walked away with only a few scrapes.