Yesterday I was at school with the boys, waiting for them to get tired of playing outside, when I got a call from DIL. She said a shooter was on the Northwestern University campus, and I should come straight home with the boys. Well, NU is definitely not far from where we live, and I was rattled. The boys came with no argument, and we went home in a way that did not go anywhere near the campus.
Turned out it was all a hoax. Someone who wasn't even in the Chicago area called the police with a story about shooting his girlfriend and identifying a location in a NU dorm. The police responded fully with a SWAT team, but no shooter, girlfriend, or gun was ever found. The dorm room was unoccupied.
I'm glad that's the way it turned out. A real shooting incident would have been terrible. But what a waste of resources. The police, in full force, were tied up with this thing for more than an hour, and the students in the dorm were in lockdown. Not funny.
I tried to snag a mystery shop assignment for today, but someone else got there first. I'm going to follow Laura's suggestion from an earlier post, and sign up with a couple more companies.
Today should be a pretty uneventful day!
Oh, and there was no spending yesterday.
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