Well I just had an annoying experience! On Fridays in the summer, a little local grocery store down the street from my office (about 4 short blocks) sets up a grill and serves lunch. I usually walk down there to pick up my lunch and it takes about 15 minutes - 5 minutes to get there, 5 minutes to get my lunch, 5 minutes to walk back. Since there isn't anyone else in the office today, I had to close down for the 15 minutes - but Friday's tend to be quiet to it isn't too big a deal.
Today I walked down as usual and could see as I crossed the river that it was running very high and fast. There was a fire department official that had just pulled up and was looking at the bridge and the water. Since he was holding a roll of yellow tape, I stopped and asked if they were going to close the bridge and explained that I needed to walk back over it in about 5 minutes. He told me they were closing it to cars, but foot traffic wouldn't be a problem. I went and picked up my lunch and when I got back to the bridge it was totally closed off and being watched by a police officer (not the fire guy I talked to) - this was only about 5 minutes later! The police officer insisted the bridge was completely closed to all forms of traffic.
I did manage to get back to the office by walking upsteam to the next bridge and then back down. It probably isn't the end of the world that the office was closed 30 minutes instead of 15 - it just REALLY annoys me that a public official lied to me!
Pamela
PS - still no luck finding a copy of HSM2. None of our friends seems to have taped it or TIVO'd it or anything.
