by Phyllis
Several years ago, before such colossal time-wasters as blogs, youtube, and facebook were popular, I occupied some of my interweb time surfing up some pretty splendid netpages and such. At least I thought so.
I used to look daily at Ada County arrest reports, a five day report of which can always be found here. Every so often I would hit the jackpot and see someone I knew or knew of. I saw mugshots of an old business associate my dad used to have, a waitress at a local sushi joint we all know, and even Darryl's half-sister (she was not a fan of Prince's Batdance, in case you were wondering). I saw lots more people, of course, but it was best when I saw someone I knew.
But I had to stop visiting the site. For one, MLB started to get on my case. "Why do you get on that website every day?" she would say, and I couldn't answer honestly. What could I say? "Too see my fellow man at his worst, his most bummed out, his lowest. You know, to feel better about myself." I don't know if that was entirely true anyway.
I also stopped because I started to recognize repeat offenders, know their weaknesses, and probably why they were arrested. One time at work I saw some co-workers visiting the site and they called me over. "Dude. Check out THIS guy!" They almost fell over when I came back with "Oh, Steven Richard Archambeau is in jail again? What is it this time, possession of drug paraphernalia?"
3 comments:
Maybe you should be a cop.
hey Andrew, which of dad's old business associates did you see? Email me.
I don't think she was a fan of much (Batdance, Toy Soldiers or your dance when the Batdance was playing) except what probably got her on that site... she was a step-sister not half sister... there is a HUGE difference!
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