Colorado Gone Bad
It would seem that the only thing that gets me motivated to BLOG is tragedy. Tragedy strikes the Golf in Lakewood, CO. It started out as a lovely day with the sun shinning all be it a little on the warm side. Instead of spending the day in the classroom, we managed to squeeze in a field trip downtown to see what a couple other departments actually do when we call in and talk to them. It was a little cool sitting in the shade for Mexican food at Arapahoe Junction, but seemed just fine afterwards while checking out the 16th Street Mall downtown. That was short lived and we had to get back to pretending to learn something as this is training.
We climbed back into the Minivan and headed to a couple cross boxes and alleys to check out various cable facilities in different parts of Denver. Nothing like 7 grown men walking up and down alleys or huddling around a cross box draped in and orange safety vest and hardhat that has "Qwest" labeled all over it. Lets complete the picture with safety glasses to go with that. Basically we looked like the Village People.
Getting close to the end of the day, we headed back to the Training Center in Lakewood.
"Wow, look at all the ice on the side of the road"
That should have been a dead give away. As we got closer to the training center, there was more hail piled up and the hail was getting bigger. By the time we pulled into the rear parking, we started laughing at all the broken out windows on all the vehicles. THAT'S WHEN THE LIGHT BULB WENT ON.
The Golf was a casualty of nature along with every other car that was in Lakewood and not under some sort of covering.