2016-09-10 tbd

I was coming back from lunch, walking through the parking lot of the shopping center across 17th St from the college. I saw Pat Ewing also walking several rows away. We were both headed for the crosswalk at the front entrance of Santa Ana College.

All of a sudden this pickup pulls into the parking lot entrance, and a police car was right behind him, lights flashing, and both came to a stop. The cop got out of the car, crouched behind his door, and drew his gun and pointed at the truck.

I rushed behind a car, and peeked through the widows to see what was going on. I noticed that Pat also wasn’t visible. I saw the guy in the trick roll down his window and put both hands out the window. I decided that I would try to go closer to the crosswalk, and get away from the action. I finally distanced myself from the scene before I looked back and saw the cop take the guy into custody.

On another occasion, I was walking outside on a chilly morning, and came up beside Pat. She said, “It’s cold, you should be wearing a jacket.”
I said, “I don’t think it’s that cold. When I was in Minneapolis, now that was cold!”
She told me that she grew up in Saskatoon, Canada, far north of Minneapolis.
“Well, then you should know what cold really is! This is nothing compared to that!” I said.
But she said she had lived here so long that she had become accustomed to the mild weather here, and she just thought it was cold this morning.

Pat Ewing was the switchboard operator for the College and when they replaced the switchboard with dial phones, she worked in Admissions as a clerk. She retired several years before I did.

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