the power of rumor

This is what happened.  By 3:15, students at Santa Cruz High School were telling me the guy had shot someone at Harbor High School (which is two neighborhoods over).  In fact, schools in the nearby neighborhoods were put into lockdown for a bit and students who could be sent home in cars were and students who were going to walk or bus home were kept for a while until they knew the armed crazy guy was recovered and disarmed.  Our school is four or five neighborhoods away, depending on how you count it, so we were not locked down.

If it had been me?  I have my car keys with me at work but not my car.  What would he have done when I told him the car was some distance away?

Though if I worked at the Secret Garden, which is a goodly ways away from my house, I might be driving to work. 

On another front, it's cold.