When I lived in dorms, I was practically on a first-name basis with some of the cops. In fact, late one night (probably 2 AM), I called in to say that someone upstairs was bowling down the hall. There was a pause. "Bowling?"

But they sent the RA on duty (there's always two), and he had been my RA the year before. He walked in. "Bowling?"

"Listen."

From upstairs, rumble rumble rumble crash!

"I'll take care of it."

And they never bowled down the hallway at 2 AM again. Calling the police can work.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

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