About a week ago Sophie was volunteering at the Y, and since we are mandated NEVER to walk in our neighborhood after dark, she asked the man she volunteers with if he would drive her back to our house. When they pulled up to 404 Naches (aka Casa Grande, aka my house) he turns to Sophie and says "ohhhh I've been here before...", to which she shoots him an incredulous look, assuming he is slightly more affluent than our neighbors. He tells her that he would never live around our area, but that he does buy his drugs from our direct neighbors - and makes it abundantly clear they sell ANYTHING you could want to buy. If that wasn't bad enough, he has also seen them smoking up (whatever it is they are choosing to smoke) in the kitchen with their children around. Keep it classy.
Next, Sophie, Gracie, and I were driving home from the coffee shop behind a "gang enforcement" cop car. The car was driving frustratingly slow the entire way home, and then turned off its lights and pulled up behind another one of our neighbors' houses.
Lastly, we were told yesterday that YNHS (my, chris, and sophie's employer) is no longer going to let us use the two company SUVs on nights and on weekends. So, now we (I, in particular, because I work 1 hour before and 1 hour after all my housemates) have no choice but to walk home alone in the dark. We also no longer have a way to run errands, go skiing, hiking, on trips out of YAKIMA.
Ok, venting over. We are now scrambling to rectify this situation, although we are pretty sure YNHS is not going to give us back the cars JVs here have relied on for years.
Lauren.I do NOT want you walking home alone in the dark after you have warned NOT to...ask the med center to drive you home if they will not alow you to use the car after 5 and you work until 6..ot tell them youy can only work til 5 so you may walk home with your fellow jvcs ( safety first)
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