Dear Blog, I'm Sorry

Dear Blog,

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a really, really long time. I hope you can forgive me. I got a little busy there for a while. I promise to do better. I've set some time aside on Tuesday to work on posting the conclusion of my 30 day challenge, as well as to write about a few other things.

Thanks,
Robin

Days 18-24... Yeah, I disappeared for a little bit!

So I'm posting Days 18-24 today. Yes, I did go on a bit of a hiatus there for a little bit. I was extremely busy visiting with friends and family and going to a million doctors appointments before my summer came to an end. Plus, I had to close out Hoffman for the summer too.

So here we go with all the posts I missed!

Day 18- Describe the Best Day You’ve Had in the Past Year

Like I said on Day 17, Day 18 goes right along with it, so here comes Ride-Along Epicness continued:

            As soon as we left the Drunk in Public call at the Godwin Bus Stop, we had another Drunk in Public call at the Godwin Bus Stop. The group consisting of 2 males and a female were on the move, but we finally caught up with them outside of Market One and behind Wilson Hall. Sgt. Jones and Sgt. Biller got out to talk to the group. Taylor and I stayed in the SUV with the windows down because we didn’t think anything was going to happen. Boy were we wrong! The officers asked if the group were JMU students and they all said no. Then Sgt. Jones asked where they were headed, and the girl was like, “Oh, I’m a JMU student and the guys go to Bridgewater College and we are going to my dorm.” Well at about the same time, the officers asked for IDs and also asked if the group had been drinking tonight. At about that time, a third officer pulled up behind our SUV. One of the BC guys decided he didn’t want to answer the drinking question and decided to bolt. Well, he plowed right into a Campus Cadet and Taylor & I’s vehicle and the cadet immediately pushed the idiot to the ground. The 3 officers tackled and cuffed the guy while the two friends stood staring at what had just happened. I then said to Taylor that I was glad we stayed in the car because we had front row seats. And then began our adventure to jail.

            Sgt. Biller was the arresting officer, but since we were riding with him, Sgt. Jones took the guy to jail in his vehicle as we followed. Taylor & I entered jail and Sgt. Biller just kind of left us standing there and we didn’t know where to go. We found a safe place against a wall that seemed like it was out of the way. Within less than five minutes of being in jail, we were flashed… a lot. Fun times. There was a REALLY DRUNK JMU student there that was hunched over in his chair. We kept yelling for Cory. “Corrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy!” LOL! Our guy was patted down, and then the dummy decided he would try to kick the 300 pound jailer (He was so drunk he could barely get his foot off the ground). He was immediately tackled next to Taylor and I’s feet by like five people and taken to a cell. He kept shouting, “Whatda I do?!” Meanwhile, I couldn’t take my eyes off the really drunk JMU student slumped over. I told Taylor that the dude was going to hit the ground any minute. Sure enough, not two minutes later, the guy went head first into the cement. As jailers rushed over, the guy started to fight with them and kept yelling, “Stop yo!” The dude fought so much, he finally passed out and then peed himself. This all was very amusing, but Taylor and I didn’t laugh in jail… we just laughed A LOT about it later. The nurse checked the guy out, and the jail called for an ambulance to come get the guy. No one really talked to Taylor and I in jail. Finally, after being there for like an hour against our 2 feet of wall we picked out, two HPD officers were like, “What are you here for?” We told them about our ride-along, and one of the undercover officers pointed to our JMU drunk guy and was like, “Don’t do drugs!” HAHA! While in jail, we saw Officer Mills and the whiney drunk girl from the Godwin bus stop. Our guy was taking a long time to get processed because Sgt. Biller couldn’t find the guy in the system and it didn’t help that he was an out-of-state resident. Since Officer Mills was finished at the jail, Sgt. Biller had him take Taylor and I since we had been there for an hour and a half.

            Officer Mills was super excited to drive Taylor and I around. He was like, “I feel like I’m driving Miss Daisy!” Officer Mills is super chatty, so we were highly entertained considering it was nearly 2am. As we started our drive from Downtown back to JMU, a call came in for a drunk in public at the intersection of Carrier & Bluestone. We were the last to arrive by a lot. The fire department and ambulance were already on scene because the guy was really drunk. However, we wasn’t drunk enough to not go straight to jail, so that’s where he was taken by the responding officer. The next couple of calls were all really lame. Mostly drunk in publics that didn’t amount to anything. We backed up an officer for a call from two guys that claimed they had been jumped by two other guys and one guy’s wallet was stolen. Our assistance wasn’t really needed, so we were on our way driving around campus.

            As it started getting closer to 2:30am, lots of calls started coming in. RAs would be on their last duty tour around this time, and we always find stuff then. A call came in for Shenandoah Hall. A girl had thrown up in the hallway bathroom, then tripped in her puke and hit her head on the bathroom stall. She then ignored RAs and stumbled back to her room where she locked the door. It was just us and Officer Mills on this call. I checked out the bathroom and couldn’t believe how much the girl had puked. I was like, “There can’t be that much left in her because I think she puked a whole bowl of jungle juice!” Officer Mills banged on the girl’s door and Taylor and I started knocking on surrounding doors to see if anyone knew anything about the girl. No one answered Officer Mill’s knocks, so we keyed into the room to find the girl passed out on her carpet. She finally came to, and she stood up as solid as a statue. She carried a conversation and everything. If it wasn’t for the fact that she was really confused and also had puke on her shirt and pants, you wouldn’t have known she was drunk. Officer Mills gave the girl the choice of going to the hospital or jail. She said neither. Since she became more lucid as the conversation continued, Officer Mills left her in the care of a responsible adult. Even though the girl wasn’t going to jail, she was still going to have to face judicial charges.

            Our last call of the evening was to White Hall. A Frat boy had been dropped off at the wrong dorm and he was really confused. The RAs had found the guy trying to swipe into C-Section with his hand. The guy then puked right in front of the door. Needless to say, the guy ended up being arrested. We drove around for a bit more and then finally headed back to the PD, where Taylor and I said our goodbyes to all our police friends!

Day 19- Something You Are Looking Forward To

            As my past two posts have mentioned, my police ride-along that Taylor and I did was so much fun. We learned a lot about things we had never even thought about. Plus, for a non-busy night, it was pretty epic.

            So the something I’m looking forward to is 9/10/11. That’s when my next police ride-along is scheduled for. All the officers said that Taylor and I needed to check out the fall semester especially during the first few weeks of school. It should be a lot of fun since there is a home football game that day. It will definitely be interesting! Can’t wait!

Day 20- 20 of Your Favorite Things

            Yen Ching Chinese Food, Willy Wonka candy, Disney, Colorado, horses, cats, pickup trucks, photography, spending time with friends, hanging with the family, swimming, Parks & Rec Summers, Stump Elementary School in Stuarts Draft, Hanover County, Slurpees, Kline’s ice cream, El Charro, ORL, clean sheet feeling, and adrenaline rushes.

Day 21- A Place You’ve Traveled To and Where Else You Want to Travel

            I’ve been to a bunch of different places in the United States, but my favorite place was probably Pagosa Springs, Colorado. It was amazingly beautiful out there. Internationally, I’ve only ever been to England, and I’d totally go back there. Two places I really want to travel to are New Zealand and Australia. I’d also really love to go to the Galapagos Islands.

Day 22- What’s in Your Purse?

            A bunch of stuff. Wallet, keys, checkbook, second wallet (don’t know why), eye glasses case, sunglasses, phone, tissues, lip balm, 2 pens, 1 pencil, small notebook, cough drops, contacts case, and lots of random business cards and scraps of paper. Nothing too exciting!

Day 23- Where Would You Like to Be in 10 Years

            I’d like to have a lot of my goals in life accomplished in 10 years. I want to graduate again and finally have my Masters, get a job in the field of education, find the one person I want to spend the rest of my life with, buy a home, have kids, and settle down somewhere that isn’t the city.

Day 24- Who is Your Hero

            I throw around the word “hero” a lot. But, I’d have to say that my hero is Walker Texas Ranger. Chuck Norris rocks! LOL!