I didn't have the greatest anniversary.
About half an hour after I went to bed, at about 1:30, our phone started ringing.
We argued for a second about who would get up, and my wife lost and went to answer it. It was work.
"This had better be important," my wife told the caller.
It was.
"Dan, this is X. We were just robbed at gunpoint. They took everything," my good friend and co-worker of 8 years said.
15 minutes later I was at work. The robbery had been quick and bold, two gun-toting men leading him into an employee area, grabbing the cash, and leaving in no more than a few minutes.
It was so fast I missed it the first time I reviewed the security tapes.
Like I said, this employee is a good friend of mine, someone I worked alongside for 6 1/2 years while earning my stripes on 3rd shift. Just two days before I'd mentioned to him that it might be a good idea to move on: "You've got ten years in. Sooner or later your luck's going to run out".
Thankfully, when it did no one was hurt.
I worked in his place for the remainder of the night, and by the time I returned the kids were nearly ready for school. I got to sleep around 9:30 and slept away most of my anniversary.
The big highlight of the day: a trip to Wal-Mart with my wife in the evening, and a couple hours of TV doubling as white noise while we cleaned the house.
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In other news, I'm waiting on some pics from LuLu's teacher before I do a post on her trip to the pumpkin farm, and the related carving of the jack-o-lanterns.
I've also primed to do my first political post in quite a long time as I find myself mystified by the appeal of our corrupt and two-faced Governor Doyle, and the self-serving and exploitive stem-cell ads Michael J. Fox is appearing in here on his behalf.
In addition, once I get a chance to watch it, I'll do a post on the new Lost episode, and possibly one on the very entertaining World Series.
I'm also going to try and update the dated pic of me in the 'about me' section, as I'm sick of looking at it.
Consider yourself warned.
Sounds like you could use a nice weekend away with your wife to celebrate. It doesn't have to be too far...think about it.
ReplyDeleteEEK!That's scarey. I've worked in a few stores, even a Kinko's on midnight shift, but i was lucky and never got held up. Poor Guy!
ReplyDeleteYou are writing again!! I am clueless as I no longer receive alerts from AOL and I think bloglines is hit or miss...it sounds pretty scary about the robbery.
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