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.
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.
posted by In The Potter's Land | 7:57 PM
4 Comments:
Let's hope that is the only Oregon has to endure from Obama. :)
was that a slip??? the only CHANGE Oregon has to endure.
Aaah. That sounds exactly like something I would do- drive through police tape without realizing! Ha!
The craziest thing about that was all the cops in the lot were SWAT teams!!!! I never thought I'd say this but you do eventually get used to turning around from routine tasks and meeting a SWAT officers eyes peering thru the window at you. And that lady was lucky she didn't get her tires shot out. Those guys weren't messin' around!
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