Eye Openers

Today, Cap'n John came on over to inspect the ammunition. It was making me a bit nervous, having so much of it in the house and I thought it might be a good idea to figure out what to do with it.

Eye opener #1: You can sell ammunition in an estate sale. In fact, you can do just about anything you want with it EXCEPT throw it in the city dump.

Eye opener #2: Ammunition in a fire just kind of fizzles out (he explained why but I won't go into it right now). So there was no real danger with regards to that.

Anyway, he was a real talkative fellow so I found out all kinds of fascinating things related to law enforcement.

Eye opener #3: The amount of ammunition Daddy had was actually kind of puny, according to the Cap'n (scary!). And he actually said, "In responsible hands, no amount of ammunition would be dangerous. In the wrong hands, no amount is a safe amount."

I asked him all manner of questions while he was sorting through the bullets and shotgun shells and he obliged me with good Southern-style tales about the reason why he and his wife and daughter were trying to get up to Minnesota, about his first homicide case, about the ins and outs of doing a background check, about the expansion of the high school. So, as he wrapped up his sorting and we wound down the conversation, I decided to go for broke.

"Was Hyde causing anyone any trouble?"
"Just himself," he replied.

Now, as I reflect back on this part of the conversation, I realize I believe Cap'n John started out telling me one story then had to revise it but here's the gist of it:

Eye opener #4: It turns out that Mac's suspicions that he was being followed and the phone tapped were, true. Mac was, in fact, being spied on. Someone hired a private investigator to find out why he would "disappear for days on end."

As I said to the Cap'n after he probably revealed way too much to me, "Why would anyone but Maggie and I care about anything like that?"

But of course, the Coach would.