Thank goodness for a slow waitress….

“Ladies, turn around.  It’s not safe here.  Go back and get a coffee at Sarbucks.”  That’s what Whitney and I heard last Wednesday night from a police officer.  We were downtown Indianapolis to meet my niece and some of her friends at a restaurant.  We were all in town for a conference that was taking place downtown Indy.  After the delicious pizza our waitress was being rather slow in getting our bill.        After we got things settled up at the restaurant, Whitney and I began our walk down to my car.  A couple blocks away the road was blocked off and police were every where.  We headed back to Starbucks at the police’s suggestion.  They closed 5 minutes later.  We checked online for the story which said a man was on the 16th floor of the apartment building on the next block shooting down onto the sidewalk.  Yikes!  We called Whitney’s husband to come get us.  We thanked God that our waitress was slow because had we left the restaurant 30 minutes earlier we would have been in the area of the apartment building.