A run-in with the police.
September 17th, 2004 Funny story. So, I walk Deedra back to West after work… and then
promptly decide to go home. When I get to my car I hop in turn the key
– nothing. The car was dead. I had left the lights on. So I called
John, but he was headed back to Mac. Nelson’s phone was disconnected so
I called dan… he said nelson was also in mcminnville. Andrea left for
Eugene… so I was completely out of luck for finding immediate help. I
got out and started walking towards Chris Whites office (head of resnet)
figuring he could help me out. On my way there I see a State Trooper
headed my way… so I think “Hey, he will help me out”. I flag him down
and he is like, “Sure, I have nothing else better to do.” So… I run
back to my door, grab the handle, and it is locked. I dug in my pockets
for a moment before noticing that the keys were in the ignition. Its
always and adventure with polvi…. anyway… I told him I also locked
myself out so he had to call Public Safety… that guy showed up about
5min later and started working on my door. The whole situation was kind
of funny. A state trooper was standing there talking to me, the public
safety guy was filling out paper work…. to a third party it would look
like I was getting busted. All in all we got everything worked out, it
was just a different situation.
I asked the trooper if working at OSU was the cool job, or the job that
all the other troopers didn’t want. He said it was the later. The only
reason that he does it is because he was a grad student.
