In 2005, while serving as the Chairman of the Education Committee for TAPBA, I held a seminar that featured the 3S and me. After the seminar in Nashville, TN, I planned to meet with an indemnitor who had agreed to help me locate a skip he had signed for three months earlier. Scot M and Scott H had ridden down to Nashville with me from Knoxville and were happy to accompany me to pick up this skip. After meeting with the indemnitor, and a little bit of drama, the skip was successfully arrested an transported to Knoxville, TN and another great WAR Story was born.
That could never happen again, right? WRONG!! While sitting around my kitchen table signing attendance certificates, I get a call from another indemnitor( You gotta love those indemnitors) telling me that a skip for whom I had been looking for about six months had just come back into town from Florida and was staying the night at his Mom's house, but would be leaving the next day.
All conversation at the table stopped as each person there had been involved in similar phone conversations in their careers and understood the urgency of the situation. Not wanting to impose on my friends, I offered to take them back to the hotel before going after my guy and they were all instantly opposed. After working all day at the seminar, and signing certificates for a couple of hours it was getting late, but every one of them was anxious to go with me.
We drove to the office to get the file and on the way to the skip's address, I gave the guys a briefing of the layout of the buildings and the indemnitor's opinion of where the skip would be. We drove past the place where each of the guys were able to get a quick size up of the set up, then we turned around and went back. When we pulled up to the site, there were lights on in the garage where the skip had been working earlier in the day, so I took that building. A fifth wheel mobile home was permanently set up on the site that also had lights on and Scot O and M took that. A mobile home was also on the site but it was dark and Scott H took that one.
After clearing the garage and securing the fifth wheel our skip comes walking out of the dark trailor where Scott H quickly takes him into custody for a fast trip to county lock-up. That was the highlight of the weekend.
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