Army Post Road

    If there were any night that one of the biggest frustrations of my OWI is that I can't be a cop any time soon were super apparent, tonight was it.  I was coming back from North Liberty hanging out with Steve and Laura and I turned the corner at Linn and Washington and there was a kid getting a total beat down and I stopped to help him and realized that I was probably just stepping into my own beat down so I popped a U-y in the street to give myself just that much more time and the guys beating on him dispersed and I was able to flag an IC cop down right away but still it was infuriating that I had to let that kid take it for that few more seconds just because this lawless crowd decided that he was their focus and I was only going to endanger myself by trying to disrupt them.  That also points out the disrepect that a large number of people have for general law and order and the extra power a car with a light bar on top has. 

     On top of those frustations, what do you do when you have an intense physical attraction to someone and they are really a very close personality match to you, but they've got a boyfriend (of ambiguous but somewhat serious importance) and her father is pretty much your best friend?  The really strange thing is I think I've built in some sort of barrier to the whole thing because there is my strong attraction physically and intellectually but it's not a real hurt that there are the huge impediments to the whole thing.  I don't know if that means the emotional thing isn't really there (probably).  I have a ton of respect for her boyfriend and just who her dad is is tremendously intimidating.  I really try to abide by the rule of any Soldier's (Sailor's, Marine's, Airman's) girilfriend is as good as married and I simply can't abide anyone who wants to mess with that but this situation just feels different.  What's even more, is that her boyfriend lives down at Ft Riley and as we all know, I'm on my way there in January.  I've already been told that when I get down there, I need to hang out with him and chill all the time.  I really just wish it were a simpler situation.