[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That would be a nightmare....

[Inspectorette]

It WAS a nightmare. Bad enough that her husband was stationed at the Pentagon and was there on 9/11. They were just starting to be able to breathe normally again, when the sniper thing happened.

She was taking an accounting class at night that was about a mile away from where the woman was shot at the Home Depot. She would call me on her cell phone as she drove to her class, then stay on the line until she was safely in the building.

She and the kids were ecstatic when her hubby got transferred to Okinawa - they're there now, awaiting his safe return from Iraq. (He's now actually out of Iraq, in Kuwait, waiting to get back on the USS Essex to head back to Okinawa.)