Shopping trip

Yesterday I took her shopping at Target. This is something she misses--the ability to just roam through Target with no particular purpose and no time restrictions. I let her go on her own and told her I would be in electronics. We ran into each other some time later and I told her I wanted to go down to Best Buy, and could she spend another 20 minutes browsing? She said she could. I told her two things: (1) do not leave the store, and (2) if she wanted me to find her, go to the service desk and wait there. Yes, a cell phone would have helped, but hers had a dead battery. 

I went to Best Buy and came back 20 minutes later. I then spent the next 40 minutes making big circles through Target, pausing at the service desk on each pass. Finally I heard her calling my name. She had just come back into the store pushing a basket of paid-for items. She said she had checked out and gone looking for me in Office Max. 

You know better than to leave her alone. But for some reason, you still think you can say do not leave the store and if you want me to find you, wait over there. When are you going to learn?