So after a long conversation with Rayna about an incident at my working place I started thinking...

(I know, I know it's a miracle right?)

I guess I should start off by explaining what happened then?

So If you didn't already know, one of my jobs involves working with kids, teaching classes etc doing the afternoon. Well during the evenings we have groups who come in and use our facilities, so I pretty much hang out in the office and do some fileing/paperwork and make sure that everyone using our buildings are taken cared of etc. So a typical day for me is getting there around 2:00pm, and leaving at about 9:00pm give or take a few.

Anyway like I said it was a typical day, I had a club meeting going on upstairs and another group meeting downstairs. So at about 8:45pm I heard a loud commotion going on outside, and as I left my building to go see what it was about the club that was meeting upstairs were on their way out as well, so when we got outside there was this huge fight going on in the parking lot, so anyway long story short, there was a stabbing that happened. Luckily everyone was caught and taken to jail, but all of this literally scared the shit out of me. We found the guy who stabbed some local guy hiding in the bushes just a few feet from my building!

And honestly, I can't say this kind of shit doesn't happen often because sadly it does. It's just the first time it's been this bad and I had to deal with it. But all of it happened so fast it was like I was watching a movie. I was ready to leave, then BAM! :2hands:

But the part that really got me was, when one cop arrived the guys who did the stabbing ran. So when I was ready to leave I noticed the cop talking to the local guys and I informed him the other group of kids were indeed still in the park. I guess they all figured they just left or something? So first he looks at me like who are you? so I told him and within seconds after calling for backup and I mean seconds, it was no longer just 1 cop car. Cars flew in the front entrance and up the ramp to our buildings so fast I cringed thinking they were going to slam into one of our buildings. But it was just insane at how fast and how many cars flew in right as he called for backup.

So continuing they caught 3 guys, and thinking that was all of them, told me I could go back in and double check that all my buildings and everything were locked and not damaged. So as I preceded to I passed by these bushes across for my building and in doing so trigger a light that turns on from movement, let's just say the 3 cops who were behind me that I did not see rushed through me (One slightly hitting me) and into the bushes screaming with there guns out and about. Knowing that the guy was going to run onto the road, I ran back to the parking lot where the other officers were and screamed "There running across the street!" Never have I ever seen someone get tackled to the ground so hard, so rough before... It sent chills down my spine, I for one did not want to be that guy in the morning! hahaha

So ending this story now I didn't get home till about 10:30 an extra 2 hours almost!

This park was the same place I spent most of my past 15 years (been going there since I was 5) and it's sad to say that times have really changed, and not for the better at all. And I really wonder If I should keep doing what I'm doing, I mean hell I could have been very well the guy who had been stabbed and yes I know, If it was meant to happen it would of happened. I also know that these kinds of things can happen anywhere and I can't shelter myself from it, but how smart is it to work in a known danger zone at those hours of the night?

And even if I decided to quit can I really do that? I have to admit the park has changed me a lot, it's changed my views on things the way I interact with others, and it's brought me a lot of happiness not to mention new friends. I feel like the park is a big part of my life these days, so how do you go about destroying all of that based on one incident?

Not to mention I feel I bring a big part to the park as well. Me and my new boss are planning so much more then we already do for the park, mostly for the kids and teens. So is it right for me to abandon all of them and her just because I