The other night my teacher friend called me to see if I would run to the school with her to pick up her laptop. The neighborhood is not the safest and she figured it was safer for two people to wander around Indy's less desirable parts than one (that and despite being pregnant, I am far bigger, stronger, and meaner than she is). We get to the school, park, walk to the building, unlock the door with her key, take two steps into the building and...alarms start shrieking. After a frozen moment of "what did we do now?" we run to the classroom, retrieve the laptop, and make our escape. On our way out of the school, we stop at the main building to try to inform security that we aren't miscreants vandalizing school property. Unable to find anyone, we decide to just leave. As we pull out onto the road, we are stopped by one of Indy's finest who informs us that despite having a key and a right to the property in the building we really are not allowed in the school without permission from the principle and a heads-up call to the police before we intend to break into the school. I suppose in the future I should ask her if there is any chance we could be arrested when she asks me along on an adventure.
Interesting side note: the school is Arsenal school and is housed in Indianapolis' old...you got it...arsenal. It is a very cool property dating back to civil war times. It was later converted to a high school and is currently Indianapolis' oldest high school. Driving through it you get the immediate feel that it is a military post. I think it would be an interesting place to go to school. Check out some of the history: www.athsalumni.org/Campus.htm www.nps.gov/nr/travel/indianapolis/arsenaltech.htm Ignore the creepy version of "Blue Skies" that plays on the first site.
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