runningfortheriesling:

(alternatively titled: Sam’s near shanking experience)

I’m a notoriously horrible sleeper. I have been since I was a small child. So, not surprisingly, I couldn’t sleep the night before the race.

About 1:30 a.m. I scared the shit out of Melissa by popping my head into her room and asking if she thought her roommate would mind me attempting to sleep in her room in the basement. I mean, it was 1:30 in the morning, she wasn’t home, and according to Melissa she didn’t stay at the house often anyway; shouldn’t be a problem right?

Wrong.

I was just on the verge of falling asleep, when the door was flung open and the light flipped on at 2:20. I think Melissa’s roommate was far more alarmed to find me there than I was that she came home. Once the shock wore off, she very sweetly offered to let me continue sleeping downstairs with her. I declined because I knew I had to get up in a mere 2.5 hours, so sleeping was futile at this point.

What I DIDN’T know is that Melissa’s adorable roommate is a country girl and always carries a knife. I mean she’s the local meteorologist, guys…she’s tiny and blonde and bubbly. She told me the next day that when she saw her door closed she immediately got out her knife and had it at the ready. Thank the Lord we got to meet her the day before so she knew who I was!

And that is how I almost got shanked by a local TV celebrity in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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What Sam didn’t know, is that this knife-toting country girl Meteorologist roomie of mine also packs heat! Megan and her boyfriend also like to go hunting so the girl owns a shotgun! It lives in her room (when it’s not flooded out!!).