15:38 Oct 19 2010
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Yesterday started out with little sleep for me the night before, for whatever reason. Pick one and it was there.
Then work started- going well. I started to slow the empty house around 3:30 and found myself with a hour to waste between the 4:30 (that was early) and the 5:15. Having called Birdy to catch up on, we had talked about a old school building she found for me to explore. *looks at Birdy* Hey- you told me about it, you know I am going to go look at it at least. :P
She also told me the only way in is thru a broken window, No Trespassing signs about the place. We joked about me being arrested and enjoyed our catching up, joking with each other.
So I lost her on the cell as she traveled into a dead zone, leaving me driving around just looking at the neighborhood. I turned into this street that goes up a steep hill and dead ends at a old graveyard, two cellular towers. Birdy made me promise to never go up here after dark alone as it is isolated, and known for drug dealers. But as it was just before 5:00 pm, I was safe.
Or not. I get up to the top and slowly drive along the graves, enjoying the sunlight in the trees. Coming to the end I see two white SUVs at the tower parking lot. I pull into the grave lot, turning around to go back off the hill when I hear a man screaming for me to stop.
I do, seeing it was a man I knew to be, or use to be, a city cop. Name is Walker. I let my window down a little and he says “Hello. Do you have your license with you?” O.o Ok- other then no seatbelt, WTH? “As I am driving I would hope so.” “Let me see them.” He said in a demanding little tone. Yeah- the hair stood up. I never liked that tone when I know I am not breaking a law. “And why would you need to see them? I am not breaking any laws.” Ok- the cell tower parking lot is the ONLY way to turn around up here.
“What is your name?” He said right back in that tone. Well hell… that I will give him. I told him, he asked me if I was so and so business and I said I was. I pulled out my license as he seemed to calm down a little by then. He goes on to ask me if I was meeting someone up here. “At a graveyard? No. I came up here to see the graves. City and State spent a lot of money redoing it.” And they have- new lights, cleaned it up from the years no one cared for it.
“I was just killing time before I showed a house at little after 5:00.” He did not believe me at all “What house?” “A rental on XXX St. Why are you asking?” He tells me that someone broke into the two cell buildings and vandalized them. And the alarm had gone off only ten minutes ago.
Ohhh… so I was coming up to meet these thief’s? Or maybe one of them? Yeah- we going to haul all that copper off in the back of my car. Or I always wanted to “do it” in one of those concrete buildings. “What is to steal? They are just machines, servers.” “OH? How would you know that?” His tone came back. “Because I have been in them before when we handle the storage years ago when Cellular one went into Eastern Kentucky..” dick! Gave a little tone back.
He gave me my licenses and told me I did not need to be up on this street. Ok- public road fuckwad. “Ok” I put the window up, several names in my head for him passing thru.
So I go back to the rental house, park, and wait. The people showed up- three adults of Mom, son and his wife. My sister does the phone nice sell stuff- my part is showing the house, making sure it is kept clean, and getting a read on the people as they look about, fill out the application.
He is in a uniform. “Transportation?” “Sheriff.” And his name tag is Walker. “So are you related to XXX Walker?” “He is my uncle.” “Oh really? Wow. Isn’t that just ironic.” Yes- the people who was coming to see the house was the cop’s family.
“You know my Uncle?” “Oh yes. And we just meet again.” I told him what happen and his mother laughed, saying she would tell him they were the people whom I was meeting.
Small towns- and this after I was joking with Birdy about getting arrested.
Ha!
COMMENTS
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Nightgame
14:17 Oct 29 2010
I love Joli's poem!