Hope and Change Comes to Oregon

It's been a few weeks, now, but Obama's visit to Oregon brought change to more than one woman's day.

When Annette (a.k.a. Annie) arrived at TCBY to open the store on Sunday morning, she found the side street taped off, firetrucks and ambulances crowding the gas station across the street, and police with their police tape swarming around the store. "We've been broken into again," shot through her mind as she pulled into the parking lot across the street and crossed the crosswalk to talk to the police. After she explained that she managed the TCBY store and was there to open, they assured her that the store hadn't been broken into but that all the activity was security for Obama's speaking engagement at a center down the side street. They allowed her to bring the groceries into the store but only after they searched both her and her car.

Not only did Obama bring change to Annette's morning but also to the morning of a woman coming to TCBY to get her morning smoothie. Either unaware of the police/rescue activity around her or mesmorized by it, she drove right through the police tape on her way to TCBY's drive through. It surprised her as much as the police officer who reacted, realizing that the police tape just got between a woman and her smoothie - no serious threat.