A Possibly Interesting and Somewhat Heartwarming Incident

Monday evening Lorraine and I went down to Sunriver for a concert. The artist was Sean Chen, a young pianist. He recently won 3^rd place in the 14^th Van Cliburn competition, and has taken first place in several other prestigious competitions. He did a great job. During intermission, Lorraine and I walked around to the other part of the Great Hall complex so she could use the restroom. I was standing in the lobby. There were people coming and going, with maybe a dozen in the lobby at any one time. Sean was getting his picture taken with several female admirers.

When he was done with them, he walked past me, heading toward the men’s room. About four steps past me he turned, came back, stuck out his hand, and asked, “Were you waiting to see me?” I shook his hand, and told him I was waiting for my wife, but then complimented him on the first half of his concert, and said that I was looking forward to the rest of the program. He said “thank you”, and went on his way. A very personable individual. I thought, “How many guys who do concerts all over the world, play with some of the finest orchestras, would be concerned that maybe he had slighted some huddlehunce lurking in a lobby, outside the concert hall restrooms in Sunriver, Oregon. My guess would be, not many.

What Was Their First Clue?

The staff at an eastern Washington jail thought that maybe an escape was in progress. How did they figure this out? 

They found a rope of sheets from a jail window down to the ground. "Eureka!" They thought. "Somebody's either drying out a bunch of bed sheets or just maybe they're planning an escape." So they locked down the jail, moved the men from that cell too another cell, and I suppose recovered the sheets.

An interesting aside: The window the sheets were hanging from was 4 feet tall, but less than 5 inches wide. The report did not say anything about the inmates being very thin.