What a day

Tuesday started off as a quiet, snowy morning. I stayed in bed through the afternoon attempting to combat the bug that was going around the office I knew I was bound to get. (No windows and a bizillion of us stuffed in a small area....it's inevitable) Anyways, I was enjoying my day when my phone rang and it was work.

It's always a bad sign when they call me before I get into the office. My editor asks "Wanna be on your way to work?" I said "Sure." He said "OK. Fatal stabbing, go to it."

First of all, if I had said I didn't want to go into work early, I could've missed out on a fatal stabbing that happened in the middle of the day! That would've been disappointing. I guess he had to make sure I was dedicated to any story. Blah.

The stabbing turned out to be a love triangle gone really bad after the woman's husband, who beat her, left jail to find a job but instead showed up at their apartment where her much younger boyfriend was at the time. The husband got mad and killed the guy. Sounds like a country song, eh?

I went back to the scene to talk to neighbors who got home from work. I was there for 1 1/2 hours and when it got dark I decided to head back to the office. I also wanted to get out of there before they took the body bag outside. I got in my car, started to leave when my tires began spinning out of control landing me right in the rain gutter.

A surge of tears started and lasted for nearly 30 minutes. I was terrified and had NO idea what to do. It was the worst area of town and dark. I watched the police officers start to leave and got even more worried. I didn't know who to call but my fellow police officer/source/friend.

I called Sgt. Ledford on his cellphone, hating to bother him at home, just to simply ask what I should do. I was in a rain gutter, I didn't even know if there was anything but a tow truck that could get me out.

Long story short, he made the 20 minute drive to come and get me out with his truck. I was so embarassed and extremely grateful that he came to help me! It was funny, right as he was pulling up he called to see where he was and said "Instead of your knight on a white horse, I'm a knight in a white truck." Classic.

After nearly getting his truck stuck and taking out a garbage can, he pulled me out of the ditch and I returned to the office, very grumpy.

I wrote my story and 20 minutes before I was going home, the story changed completely and I had to re-write the story with all the copy editors waiting for me so they could go home.

That is the last I want to ever remember of that day.