The Commencement Blog: Part Two

This is Dana Burger. As Claire Bear mentioned in Part One of our commencement blog, we enjoy awkward situations and have inherently bad luck. I would like to take you back about two weeks ago to a nice evening with the Stephanies. It all began at Tom Thumb. For you who are not familiar with Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb is a local grocery store in the Dallas area. There is one located right near one of the Stephanies, Steph-Dawg, apartment. Claire Bear, Stephenie, and I decided to bring a bottle of wine to a girl's night in. After browsing Tom Thumb's fine wine's under $10, we found a winner. Upon checking out, Stephenie was stopped by a nicely dressed older man and was asked if we were over 21. We all responded "yes" and she showed her driver's license, as I preceeded to get remaining directions from Steph-Dawg on how to "sneak in" to her apartment complex. As the words "we'll just sneak in" rolled off my tongue, we were now accompanied by two other men and a woman. Assuming they thought I was going to sneak into a bar, I enlightened them that we in fact were not sneaking into a bar and that instead, we were going to sneak into an apartment complex. This is when they asked if we were students. Slightly offended that they could not obviously see that we were almost in our mid-twenties, I responded "No, I've been working here for over a year!" as I handed them my Tennessee license. One of the inquisitive men at this point asked the obvious question, "Then why do you have an out of state license?". Annoyed at what I think is apparently an overly nosey Tom Thumb Manager, I retort to the man, "What are you a cop or something?" It was at this point that I looked down and saw the large shiny star attached to his belt loop near his leather gun holster. Yes, yes he was indeed a cop.