bouncing back and forth

Feb 8th, 2006:

I never hear back from Abel, maybe his voicemail is broken and the student/receptionist had to take maternity leave…..or maybe he doesn’t want to ever hear from me again?

I call Tanya, at “The District”, and leave a voicemail. I am getting this uneasy feeling that everyone I’ve been calling is thinking they don’t want to talk to the “crazy gate guy” anymore and are standing by the watercooler saying “you should hear about this guy that keeps calling me, he’s totally obsessed with this gate at Sahuaro High School!”

Tanya calls me back the next day and informs me that neither the Prinicipal nor the Asst P had received any communication from me in the last few weeks(?!?!) and that they are sorry about the occasional accidental locking of the gate. She said the Principal told her he walks through the gate several times a week so he knows it is almost always open.

Hmmmm…..this is getting more interesting. I know that isn’t true. I’ve called Abel twice in the last few weeks and he’s never returned my calls, and if the Principal is walking through that locked gate several times a week he is one very tough hombre. I haven’t noticed metal shards and twisted wire laying around when I’m climbing it - maybe I’d better take a closer look next time.

In the meantime I’ll keep a log of the dates and times when the gate is locked so I can at least refute specifics. But a larger problem looms in the background, “Why do I care?”