Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Confrontation?? With UTR???


We are normally welcomed by the local residents when we hold a rally.  We have been “kicked out” of a few restaurants because they didn’t want us taking the time to hold meetings when they could be using the tables for more paying customers.  But Tuesday evening we were actually confronted by a young woman and her boyfriend screaming at first Ralph and Willa and then Ken and Lois for taking their parking spot.  We had just returned from the day’s ride and out of their room they came loaded for bear.  They began screaming and cussing while the rest of us looked up in amazement and shock.  Bill and others came to the rescue which gave the young man and woman clearly under the influence of alcohol more targets to scream at.  I could hear “come on I’ll fight ya” and “go f*** yourself” being yelled at Bill who was trying to defuse the situation.  Seems this man and woman had been living here for 5 weeks and Ralph and Ken placed their trailers in a parking spot when they arrived Sunday that this young couple had “claimed” as theirs because they could park their truck the closest to their room door.  How would we know that?  Ken finally got the guy to calm down after about an hour or more of talking to him.  At one point I was expecting to see him (the young man) take a swing at Bill or Ken.  This was a first for the UTR group.  I must say this young man is not a “local” he is a construction worker here from Texas.  Must be a sad life to live in a small hotel room with nothing to do after working but drink.  We need to pray for him. 

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