Notebook Wars

People seem to like my lists for some weird reason... so heres one for you. I work part time security at a residence hall. Nothing fancy, nothing that pays crazy well. I work Mornings and you don’t see many people... but sometimes you see the oddest things.  

1. The dad that came in and asked me to please get his son down here, because he’s losing everything - including going to school on his father’s dollar. I don’t know what the kid did but the man was so livid he was completely calm. My supervisor took care of that one. 

2. The kid that came into the lobby on a rainy morning, did a full swap from party clothes to a suit and then left. All before I could ask him to please remain clothed and at approximately 7:30 am.

3. The girl that had her friend ask me to look up someone who was signed in the night before. When I refused (because they’re not privy to that info) she recounted the tale of how she’s CONVINCED he’s either cheating on her or running an underground cult. Then she said it wasn’t that big a deal and just walked away. Apparently she just went higher up the chain and asked the head of security to track this kid, who also roadblocked her. Stalker-ish much?

4. The day a kid tried to sign into the dorm as his brother, but with his ID instead of his brother. Tried repeatedly to convince me it read a different name, and then bolted to try to get on the elevator to ‘sneak in’ but failed because housekeeping was getting off with their cart. He ran for it when I called campus police.  

5. The day I got handed two fake IDs from a student before I got his actual drivers license. Funny as it was I had to call that one in, don’t know if the school actually followed up on that.

6. The random spring day that Gru and a bunch of very tall minions exited the dorm, all screeching. One of them was orange. I think it was a Greek Life thing. 

7. The head of the building forgot their ID and needed to be signed in off their Mobile ID. Only, they weren’t on the roster, they weren’t even on the staff list for the building. Then we looked at the date on the staff list and it was from over a year ago.. yikes.

8. The poor kid who worked at a bartender at a fancy bar who came back covered in beer and colors from fancy drinks being spilled on him. Looked like he’d been through a color run. I got the short version of the story from him: it was a rough night. 

9. The day the same kid from 8 came home from work (roughly 7:15am?) and then called the cops on his roommates because their apartment was so filled with smoke from them getting high that he couldn’t even open the door to get in because he was afraid of setting off the hall fire alarm.  Local and Campus Police were not happy. Two very large bongs removed, still smoking, (not legal in my state fyi) plus the tampering with university fire alarms. All before 7:30am. I wouldn’t be surprised if their parents became the one in situation 1.