Personal Narrative: A Day In Cleveland

It’s a chilly December day in Cleveland. There are noisy streets, crowded sidewalks, and busy coffee shops filled with customers. I’ve had a long boring day of typing, filing papers, and attending meetings. I finish up my work and start walking down the twelve flights of stairs. Normally the elevator suites me, but from all the sitting I had done today, I thought I needed a little exercise. I get to the main floor, breathing heavily. I open the doors of the tall business building and take a step outside. Immediately I feel the cool breeze on my cheeks. To warm me up I visit this coffee shop just a block down from where I work. The coffee shop is rather filled up with customers. As I am ordering my coffee, I notice this very tall, muscular man walk out of the shop. I swear that looks exactly like Lebron James, one of the best basketball players of all time. My heart instantly starts to race. I quickly pay and receive my coffee as I’m running out of the coffee shop trying to catch up with the man. Right as I take a step outside, I look …show more content…
That’s what made me bullet down the sidewalk after him. As I turn the same corner as he had I start looking around to see where he had gone. It seemed like he had just vanished. I ask multiple people “Have you seen a tall man in a black jacket walk by?” I didn’t get much help from anybody except this one young woman. She told me she had seen a man like the one I was describing just a minute or two ago. She pointed to me where I should search. I start walking that way and then I see him. I see him standing at an intersection waiting to cross the street. I don’t hesitate. I immediately take off towards him. I get caught up in a crowd of people. After about a minute or two of squirming my way through the clumps of people I finally get to where Lebron had been standing just a minute before. I look around, but end up hopeless. He is nowhere in