Chapter 136

Friday started off with a bang at the college. The Seven Eleven had just been robbed and the getaway car ran the red light. By luck it was one of our security old Ford Explorers that was crossing through the intersection and not one of the newer ones. It was T-boned in the right side passenger door. The driver had on the safety belt as the rules required. The speed was fast enough to push the Explorer 20 feet side-ways. That meant that I was down one person from the start, as the guard would be in ER most of the morning getting checked out. He did not want to go, but I told him he had no choice; it was in the rules and that was all there was to it.

The driver and the holdup man had both been ejected through the front windshield onto the hood of the old Impala they had stolen. That blocked the intersection and then the 20 police cars responding to the hold-up alarm just closed down everything. That happened at a few minutes before 8 AM.

The Frost Borough group was only miles from the college. They had arrived at BWI at 6:30. They had signed the paperwork at Mid Atlantic Auto rentals at 6:40. For a morning heading to the Eastern Shore they were going the opposite direction of the heavy traffic heading into Baltimore and had make good time.

They were then stuck in a traffic jam just a mile from the Chester River Bridge. A local would have easily negotiated around the problem with a 20 mile end around but they were simply lost. It was 9 when they finally arrived after a detour through the old part of town.

I spent the entire morning dealing with paperwork from the State and local police. They impounded the totaled Explorer and held Tommy Chester until they completed the investigation and a re-enactment of the accident. It was almost noon when he reported back to work.

I inspected the repaired Homer dummies and loaded them into the Suburban. We were flying west early Monday to Oklahoma State and staying overnight there. Then on Tuesday morning we were flying to Dallas to do two seminars and then back home Tuesday night. Thursday morning we were flying to Atlanta. After the seminar there we were flying to Louisiana do two more Friday before flying home.

The board took the Frost Borough group to the best restaurant in the area where $150 a person was from the cheap side of the menu. It was 2:30 when they finally made their way to the security department.

I had met Mr. Skaggs and two of his group when we did the seminar at Frost Borough. He went through the introductions with the others. I spent an hour highlighting the security system and procedures we had in place and how we operated all shifts. The group went over to the admin building to finish up with the KCC board. At 4 we met in the parking lot and they followed Patti and me to the Narrows Seafood Inn. The rest of my group met us there including the three new administrators along with Katz and Bradberry. It was a wonderful meal. After the meal they followed us to the gym.