A day with a Deputy Sheriff

Beep beep beep….smack. As I look alarm clock it reads 5:00am. Wow I said to myself I haven’t got up this early in a long time. I slowly climbed out of bed and headed into the bathroom to take a shower. After that I got ready to head in to the Sheriffs office. I sat there in my truck listing to the radio playing I was hoping it would be a fun and busy day but little did I know I would fall asleep in the squad car, we will get to that part later though. Deputy Naugle picked me up at the Sheriffs office around 6:00 and the day began. We drove to the west side of the county in the Metamora, Washburn area. Around 7:30 we went to the Shell Gas station in Metamora and drank coffee and read the paper while the other deputy and detective showed up before they went into the office. About 8:00 rolled around and the radio went off with a check the well being of a construction worker in Germantown Hills laying face down in the grass. BOOM out the door we go into the car and driving fast through town heading to the car with a second squad behind us. As we arrive on scene we found out the worker was just laying in a hole doing some work. After we cleared from there we went back to the gas station to talk some. And we got another call to a motorist assist in Eureka. By the time we got there they changed the tire and the lady was on her way. After the call everything went down hill from there. No more calls for 5 hours. We drove around and ran radar and no one felt like having to pay for a ticket because no one was speeding. I was getting bored and tired and then smack. Ha-ha said Naugle after I fell asleep and he smashed on the brakes. It was about 2:00 then and it was time for us to go home. He told me he would see me next week and maybe we would be busy.