tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15797136.post1417355026268282439..comments2023-10-29T07:46:11.936-07:00Comments on SCHMIDT HAPPENS: Notes from the TrenchesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15797136.post-42734866838284437752007-11-14T17:49:00.000-08:002007-11-14T17:49:00.000-08:00Evil is everywhere no matter your zip code.I jus...Evil <I> is </I> everywhere no matter your zip code.<BR/>I just got off the phone with one of (the two) my employees who experienced being robbed at gunpoint a few weeks ago. She called to tell me how she was feeling and that she'd called the provided hotline to speak to a professional counselor. She's not over it and isn't getting over it and she's driving herself crazy in shoulda, woulda, coulda's. We spoke for an hour about how she's feeling and I offered as much advice and listening as possible. I'm still shaken by it and I didn't have a gun stuck in my face.<BR/>*sigh*<BR/>We talked about a current trend here in ABQ of guys carjacking women, in broad daylight, while they are filling their cars with gas. Scary.<BR/>We spoke about the knifing murder that occurred at a store sbux store not two miles from us. This is the same store I trained at and it happened a week after we were robbed. I actually knew the customers (more like I knew their drinks) and remembered what trouble makers they were. That staff witnessed a 19 year old woman get stabbed and bleed to death right in their doorway.<BR/>Scary.<BR/>GWB.<BR/>Scary.<BR/>Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India... etc... <BR/>Scary.<BR/>Driving the I-40 at 7:30AM.<BR/>Scary.<BR/>A Subway shop here on the NW side of town robbed at gunpoint, by the same guy, three times in two weeks.<BR/>Scary.<BR/>We watched Blood Diamond and Last King of Scotland, back to back, in the same night.<BR/>Scary.<BR/>It's enough to make me want to start a business from home and do all of my transacting via the internet.<BR/>But then there's been a huge rash of home invasions by a bunch of "Intervention' wannabees; just looking for a way to crash into your garage or take your life for twenty bucks.<BR/>Where can we feel safe and ignore the world? Nowhere. <BR/>I'm thinkin' that's because we can no longer ignore it and call it someone else's problem.<BR/>Drugs and alcohol... touch all of our lives either by the drama of familial stains or through the violence begetting deal.<BR/>The world has gone to hell in a handbasket and we're busy watching reality shows... as if "reality" shows were the better alternative.<BR/>Harrrruummpppfffff...<BR/><BR/>Scary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com