Fight or Flight

Whenever Gil comes in the house after work and I don't hear him, I jump a mile. He mocks me every time. Now I know why! After school today, all the teachers were listening to a presentation in a classroom and we started hearing "pop, pop, pop" outside the window. I guarantee you've never seen a group of people hit the floor so fast! After the shooting on the front yard last year and throat slashing behind the school this year, we're all a bit edgy. Understandably. It definitely got my heart pumping today as I lay on the floor waiting for a bullet to fly through the window. No wonder I'm always preparing myself for the worst!

...By the way, it ended up being hooligans with fire crackers (and yes, I just used the word "hooligans"). And for the record, the College of Ed at GVSU was great, but it did NOT prepare me for this!