Once in a Full Moon

My first day on call was an interesting experience to say the least.

You know the kinda person who is crazy enough to come in and tell you their life story and admit that they really are pretty crazy? Yeah I got one of those at the desk.

It started like any other night RAOC (RA on call) shift. 5 pm check in, do the rounds, and wait for exciting stuff to happen. During my rounds I found several security flaws that no one noticed, open exterior doors, missing window tabs, and a fire extinguisher that was gone. All stuff that is a red flag when doing rounds. So I noted it and moved on. Easy enough.

Fun time.

About 5:45 pm, I got a visitor.
A girl walked in and asked for information on a student. I told her that I can't give out information and she asked if I knew a guy that was in Chi Alpha Omega. What a crazy idea, look in MY dorm for someone in a fraternity. Not happening!

Anyway, things just got worse from here. This visitor 'Jane' went on to explain that she was pregnant, just out of jail, multiple restraining orders from the other college in town, and restraining orders from one of her many ex-fiances. Oh, and did I mention she was arrested earlier that day for public intoxication, and displaying a firearm in a bar? Yeah that is a bit of a problem. I asked her if she still had said firearm and she said no and went on to ask if she could use our computer to get on facebook. Do I look like the kind of person to let a fresh out of jail weirdo on a work computer to check her facebook? NO WAY JOSE! I explained that she can't use our work computer, and that she could use the public phone in the lobby. But for a girl who didn't have her life together or even know the name of the guy she wanted to see because she had his kid, I don't know why she would have his phone number, so that was a silly attempt.

At this point we decided we better document who this crazy lady was so I asked to see Jane's drivers license and she said she didn't have one. Hmm, for someone who can't get their act together, why bother getting an ID card.

Ok Jane, Do you have a (My super-cool university) student ID card? You did just tell me you were a student here.

Oh you don't? Whats that you said your ex-fiance took it from you?
Pretty bad taste in guys if you ask me.

At this point I was seriously wondering why she came to my building and not any of the other buildings on campus.

Hold the phone! Jane does offer one piece of ID! Now we're talkin! What is this form of ID she offers? None other that a promise to appear issued when she was released from jail earlier today! I guess that counts as an ID form. So Jack, my Hall Director on call goes into the back room to photocopy this form.

Jane is explaining to me that she is flying with 10 guys to Brazil... tomorrow. To live forever. I guess the promise to appear means very little to her. I asked how she intended to fly to Brazil when her only form of ID appears to be a promise to appear issued by the county. I guess you could get out of the country but certainly it will be hard getting back in. Then she said, and I quote, "Oh, we are not really flying, we are driving!"

WOW, get out of jail one day, drive to Brazil the next. I didn't think a public intoxication charge was a big enough deal to flee the country over.

Good luck driving, it is the rainy season at the Darien Gap right now and not to mention the terrorists and bandits waiting for you.

Anyway, at this point I decided it would be best to escort Jane outside and talk with her there while Jack copied the paper. So while outside we talked about whatever she wanted just to keep her calm. Jane went on to tell me about her successful businesses in nearby large towns. And how she walked almost 40 miles the other day. My favorite part was when she told me that until she got arrested she had gone 60 days without sleeping. I asked her to repeat that and she really did mean to say DAYS not hours. She also said she had not taken her meds in some time. At this point I did not feel comfortable just kicking her out and felt that she might need to talk to campus police. So Jack and I made it happen, he called the police while I was outside talking to her. Campus PD showed up and had a little chat with Jane, put her in the back of the car and continued to talk to her for almost an hour before driving off with her.

Favorite quote from the chat? I got them right here:

officer "Are you a (UNIVERSITY) student?"
Jane "Yes... well... sorta, no. But I will be tomorrow! I am an engineering student!"


Good luck on your trip to Brazil Jane. It also might be time to quit being stupid before you end up dead or worse.


But the fun doesn't stop here. I still am on call for the rest of the night.

While doing my rounds I see a girl moving at a pretty quick pace away from some object she placed on the floor and back into her room where her and her roommate were giggling. She looked out of the door and saw me coming down the hall so she quickly said 'shut the door!' and they both jumped in their room. Of course I don't just let them have all the fun, I went and looked at what was on the ground and it was a cup with a cupcake on top of it. Hmm, that is sure something to get all worked up about. I went and knocked on the door...

Girl " Hi, can I help you?"
Me "Yeah, is anything exciting going to happen to that cup on the ground?"
Girl "No, we were just putting it there because this other girl didn't want it and we want to give it to [so-and-so] but wanted it to be a surprise."
Me "Ok, just don't get so excited about it, it is 11:20 pm"

I don't think the girl ever found the cupcake, oh well.

I also talked to some other residents because they were really concerned as to which student from that hall got arrested. The rumor was that one of the hall students was arrested and the hall director was really really mad.

Rumors are funny.

First shift as RAOC complete. I have a full weekend of this fun coming up in a few weeks!