My midtown adventures: Part I

The wife had a tonsillectomy last Thursday. As anyone will tell you, this is not an operation you want to have when you're an adult. I brought her home from the surgery center about 3PM, made sure she was comfy and promptly headed out to the Walgreens at 39th & Broadway to get her pain meds prescription filled. When I dropped off the prescriptions they told me it would be at least 30 minutes. Just enough time for me to head next door to McDonald's for a quick lunch. It's funny to sit inside that McDonald's with all the normal looking people when you know there's complete craziness going on outside. You would think the place would be filled with crazoids but their clientele appeared to be businesspeople grabbing a quiet, late lunch. I finished my lunch and walked out to my car. I had parked just opposite the speaker box for the drive through. I started to back out, but a weird sound caught my attention. I know now it was the warble of a police siren being pulsed for a couple of seconds. I rechecked behind me and there were now multiple unmarked police cars surrounding an SUV. The cops had come from all directions in literally just a few seconds. In just a few more seconds there were serious looking plainclothes cops aiming serious looking assault rifles and screaming at the occupants of the SUV. The most interesting part of this was the reaction of the occupants in the SUV. Woman passenger, seemingly not surprised that she was being ordered out of the vehicle at gunpoint. Male driver, disgusted, but also obviously not surprised he was being ordered out of the vehicle at gunpoint. I can't even imagine how I would react to a bunch of serious-looking dudes aiming assault rifles at me. As the police put them both in ziptie handcuffs and moved them out of the way, all the police vehicles vanished as quickly as they had arrived. The whole thing went down in less than 30 seconds. I backed out and got the hell out of there. Will I ever go back to that McDonald's? Sure! Just another day in midtown. That's just how I roll...