Storytelling--A Robbery Case at Highland Mall

My friend Sharon from Taiwan told me a story about a robbery at Highland Mall in Mandarin Chinese. The summary of the story is as follows:

Sharon and her friend, Amy, went to Highland Mall one Sunday afternoon. They went to Express to get a pair of jeans. While they were shopping around, Amy saw a couple seemed to be stealing things from the store. A guy held a large tote bag and his female accomplice was stationed as a lookout. They slowly approached the display shelves and the guy forcefully put all the clothing in the tote bag. Suddenly, everything on the shelf was gone. As Amy saw this, she ran to the cashier (there’s only one staff in the shop) and told her about the robbery. However, the cashier replied, “really,” with a touch of austerity. Amy desperately wanted to show her where the robbers were and rushed her to catch them soon while the cashier kept doing her own stuff and did not take an immediate action. Not until Amy kept yelling at her did she walk out of the counter toward the couple. The couple ran away immediately and the cashier went back to her counter. Everything went back to normal. It was like nothing happened, except some empty shelves reflecting the light of fluorescent tubes.

In terms of entexualization (Bauman & Briggs, 1990), Sharon got her floor of talking about this because we were talking about wired things happen to us recently. Thus, Sharon got to talk about this story. Now, when I am retelling the story here, I am decontextualize the recontextualize the given information.