Well that was interesting

So yesterday was pretty ordinary. Went to work, took a bike ride, watched little britain, and ate dinner. Eddie was passed out on the couch, so I decided to take a bath. About halfway through, eddie rushed into bathroom looking pretty freaked out.

"We have to leave right now!"
"right now?"
"Yes, right now!"
"Why?"
"There's a policeman outside, and he says there's a problem with our neighbor across the hall. We have to evacuate the building immediately."
"shit!"

I hurriedly threw my clothes on (jeans on wet skin, lame!) and grabbed my cell phone, purse, and a book. I still had conditioner in my hair. We had to exit through our sliding glass door because the front door "wasn't safe". When we got outside, the cop waved us over and told us not to come back for an hour and a half, and not to drive north past the front of the building. That's when we noticed that he had a gun in his right hand. Yikes!

We took refuge at a friend's house, and lamented the fact that we'd forgotten our police band scanner. At 9:30 pm, it had been an hour and a half, but we weren't sure if the "situation" had been resolved. Luckily our friend knows some people in the records department at the police station, and a quick call let us know that it was not yet safe to return.

At 10:30, the records guy called back to let us know that everything was okay, and we could go back home. Apparently, one of our neighbors had barricaded himself in his apartment and threatened to shoot himself. There had been a standoff for 2 hours, but fortunately he finally came out and was taken to the hospital.

Wow.