Monday, August 26, 2013
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
So...one day last week when I got to work...
Ok I'll warn you, this might be anti-climactic, as even I am not sure how it turned out, but it was interesting anyway. I park in the back and get out of my car...well, first I will describe the scene a bit. There are some apartments in the neighborhood behind our building, and a small supermarket/shopping center across the street (a busy street). It's well known that ALL kinds of people live in the apartments back there. Some good folks, some shady folks, and some that are probably just bad. One day I'll write about the weird old bastard that looks similar to Joe Paterno....but that's another story.
So back to this day last week, and I arrive at work and park my car. I get out and start walking towards the back entrance when I see a pretty young lady with a baby in her hands, walking toward our back parking lot, but she turns and keeps going straight when she sees me. I could tell she was crying, or had been crying. She obviously wanted to avoid people, so I just stood outside by the sidewalk to finish my cigarette. I noticed the girl kept walking down the sidewalk and went into a little alleyway cut out in a cinder-block storage building. The alleyway she went down is only approximately 8' feet deep, and 7' feet tall, maybe 5' feet wide...with no exit. It's just a cut-out slot in a cinder-block building, but there is a bench to sit down on in this cut-out/slot/alley thing.
So anyway, the girl went back into that area and sat on the bench, out of my sight and out of the sight of anyone that might be looking for her. About this time, I notice three police cars in the parking lot across the street, they were all together and driving slow, obvious to me they were looking for someone. Sure enough, as I'm standing out there finishing my cigarette, one of the cops drives up towards me and asks if I've seen the girl with a baby walk by. Now, I haven't always gotten along with police officers, and I don't want to snitch on someone for something that might be minor....BUT, th is girl was obviously distraught, and had a baby with her... So I kind of acted like I didn't hear the officer ask me, but I looked directly towards the area the girl was, so the officer understood and he drove on past and spotted her sitting on that bench in the alleyway.
I went on inside to work and to tell everyone that there might be some drama going down out back. A few of us went out there to look, and by this point the girl was standing on the sidewalk, on the passenger side of the police car. She was still holding her baby in one arm, and using a cellphone with her other hand. The police officer was still in his car, just talking to her. They both seemed calm, other than the girl being upset and obviously having a bad day.
It will be a mystery as to what was going on, because I didn't get a chance to go back outside and follow up on it.
So back to this day last week, and I arrive at work and park my car. I get out and start walking towards the back entrance when I see a pretty young lady with a baby in her hands, walking toward our back parking lot, but she turns and keeps going straight when she sees me. I could tell she was crying, or had been crying. She obviously wanted to avoid people, so I just stood outside by the sidewalk to finish my cigarette. I noticed the girl kept walking down the sidewalk and went into a little alleyway cut out in a cinder-block storage building. The alleyway she went down is only approximately 8' feet deep, and 7' feet tall, maybe 5' feet wide...with no exit. It's just a cut-out slot in a cinder-block building, but there is a bench to sit down on in this cut-out/slot/alley thing.
So anyway, the girl went back into that area and sat on the bench, out of my sight and out of the sight of anyone that might be looking for her. About this time, I notice three police cars in the parking lot across the street, they were all together and driving slow, obvious to me they were looking for someone. Sure enough, as I'm standing out there finishing my cigarette, one of the cops drives up towards me and asks if I've seen the girl with a baby walk by. Now, I haven't always gotten along with police officers, and I don't want to snitch on someone for something that might be minor....BUT, th is girl was obviously distraught, and had a baby with her... So I kind of acted like I didn't hear the officer ask me, but I looked directly towards the area the girl was, so the officer understood and he drove on past and spotted her sitting on that bench in the alleyway.
I went on inside to work and to tell everyone that there might be some drama going down out back. A few of us went out there to look, and by this point the girl was standing on the sidewalk, on the passenger side of the police car. She was still holding her baby in one arm, and using a cellphone with her other hand. The police officer was still in his car, just talking to her. They both seemed calm, other than the girl being upset and obviously having a bad day.
It will be a mystery as to what was going on, because I didn't get a chance to go back outside and follow up on it.
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