Dang! I dont know If I told you all this story (I have gotten to that point in my relationship with GC, that I am beginning to tell the same stories over and over) but a few years back we were on our way to the grocery store about 10 PM one night during pre-rit week, and the freeway passes right by campus. Well, I am in the passanger seat and look over to campus, and see smoke pourign from in front of the library. I knew it wasnt maintenance burning brush, because you cant get them to do ANYTHING after 3pm on a friday, so we exited, did the turnaround, and went back. There was a car on fire in the parkign lot. Of course, there is the first thought "God I hope no one is trapped in there." So I run to the emergency phone and call camus police. THe dispatcher was obviously taken aback by what I was saying, because she was like, "WHAT?!?!" I repeated that there was a car on fire in front of the library, and she was like, "Where in front of the library?" I was a bit of a smart ass, because its a stupid question. I told her,"Well, its pretty much the only car ON FIRE in front of the library." <lifesaver wondering where the Police are by this point> So she tells me to say there (the gas tank then goes) I tell her to go to hell and back away. Finally, about 10 really outta shape officers come running over wheezing, and huffing out of breath, and tell us, "We could smell sumthin' burnin', but we couldnt find nuthin." Yeah. anyway, no one was in the car, and it had been stolen and ditched there, but it was a crazy experience.
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