*when i was at mcdonalds in the mall food
court*
*girl takes spoon from counter*
employee: hey! you have to buy something to take the
spoon! girl: *takes one lick from the spoon and slowly
backs away* me: wtf just happened.
A semi-colon represents where a sentence could have ended, but it
didn't.
It didn't end because you, the writer, chose for it
to keep going.
Just like with life.