Thanks Major, Major, Rooster, Slim, et al ....
Mrs Marvel is comfortable at home, walking, talking, sleeping, eating, and watching Nat'l Geographic Channel - the healing continues!
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Now that I am back on a confusicator with a real keyboard I can more easily wax eloquent at the drop of a chappeua chataeu hat.
on an earlier note, I had an amusing experience last friday, whilst mrs marvel was stable and well-watched over in ICU, I left the horspital
for an hour to shop at wally world to get a few snacks she could eat ( oddly they have some organic gluten free stuff, like quality applesauce in single serving containers) and a mattress pad for myself ( the hospital was very accomodating, and let me stay overnight and sleep on a fold-out chair-bed, but the mattress was a bit thin for my back).
At any rate, after parking about 200 yards from the entrance, I heard a woman yell
"help me he stole my purse",
and I percieved a young man running hellbent for leather in my direction chased by 2 or 3 other young men. .....
The perp yelled "outa my way" at a middle-age feller .... who complied......
something just clicked in my head .... ( ie: not in my town!) .... apparently I loudly yelled "stop thief" several times( according to others)
and without thinking at all I ran full on towards said perp....
Perp yelled "I got a gun man!" .....
and I bellowed ( so loud they heard it all over the parking lot) "SO DO I F***ER".
Perp did a 180, back towards the store ... and previous pursuers.
I bellowed STOP HIM while chasing....
and about 5-8 more men started converging from all over the parking lot.
At this point it began looking like an action-comedy.
Two 20-somethings ( one had a man-bun) jumped in one of those Kia mini-clown vans and took up the chase.
Three Really BIG guys made it to their pickups, grabbed their pistols and took up the chase, one driving his pickup.
I saw The Kia caught up with the perp and more guys were arriving.
I was winded and some distance off but they had the Perp hemmed in.
Words were exchanged.
Perp threw the purse the ground and trotted off before the BIG GUYS could get there.
Since none of us were LEO, having no powers of arrest, etc, and not trained in taking down a street guy probably armed with knives,
we decided "good enough" and purse was returned to Nice Lady.
Nobody hurt, but everybody was, well, rather "excited" ....
oddly in this day of youtube, no one thought to get photos or video of the perp.
take-aways: Good Guys 1 Bad Guys 0
1) Nice Lady was unharmed, had all her stuff.
2) Nice Lady was advised to report incident, and to carry purse with strap "cross chest" instead of over shoulder.
III) I love this town and the people in it. we take care of each other.
d) Prof Marvel still has a REALLY big mouth.
e) Prof Marvel can still do the 100 yard dash.
f) Prof Marvel better make use of the "free gym" thingy in the health care plan - need more cardio vascular and leg and upper body, etc...
f) Prof marvel is signing up for CCW classes and acquiring permit and "carry insurance"
..... cuz "it" was locked in the car ( full disclosure to perps not req'd)
yhs
Prof ( guess I still got it) Marvel