Library Notes
December 23, 2004
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
I have arrived!! I was standing at the cashier’s window in the bank this morning and my new-fangled cell phone rang, darlin'’ There I stood , right out there in the middle of that public place, removing my phone from my pocket and conducting business just like a pro.!!
But that’s not what I was gonna talk about this week. I was going to talk U-Haul truck, moving, etc., etc., etc.
Suzie reserved a U-Haul truck about a week ago, a 14-ft. that the lady assured her would hold a 3-Bedroom house. But, that’s not Suzie’s 3-bedroom house, plus. When we went to pick up the truck, it looked awfully small for what needed stuffing in it. Suz asked about it and the lady said they did not have a 14-ft. available. Well, what about a 24-ft. one? The lady said she had one and we could have it for the price of the 14-ft. Suzie thought that was a great deal, but I immediately insulted her. I quickly asked if she was sure she could drive a 24-ft. truck. You’d have thought I had insulted her ancestors for three generations back. Well, of course, she could drive a 24-ft. truck and the lady hastened to add that it was an automatic. Suz thought that had nothing to do with it. She could have driven a stick-shift too.
So, she signed all papers, paid all money, and we walked out to find the truck. It was an over-the-cab one and it was long. She climbed up into the cab, without the aid of a ladder, fixed herself in the seat, and she looked about ten years old in that big thing. I told her the police would probably stop her and "card" her, she looked so little up there.
Those two curbs she ran over in Norman, before she remembered to swing out to turn are probably alright, though.
She realized, after getting out on the interstate, that she was about eyeball-to-eyeball with the 18-wheelers who passed her. She called me on the new-fangled telephone to tell me that, sounding kinda surprised that she was that high.
She started out rather up tight, holding the steering wheel with both hands, really concentrating on driving, in the beginning. But, by the time she got to Farmersville, she was driving with her one left hand and petting Shadow the dog, who sat beside her in the seat, with her other hand.
We packed that truck so tight, the sides were probably pouched-out. U-Haul may change extra for stretching.
And – Suzie did prove she could drive that 24-ft. truck, with no problem. The gas gauge didn’t work right, so we had to stop often to add gas, as we sure did not want to run out of gas.
There’s the beginning of the "Move". We secured our transportation to "move the house", and believe me, by the time we had moved the house, we knew it had been moved.
So, moving right along, let us look at Kay Hooper’s latest book "Hunting Fear", and we will look at the next step of the evacuation from Oklahoma next time.
"Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims.
Lucas Jordan, a key agent and profiler in Noah Bishop’s Special Crimes unit, has an extraordinary skill: he locates missing people. But his uncanny ability comes with a price, and his methods rouse mistrust in the hard-nosed cops forced to call him into their investigations.
Now Jordan has come to Clayton county, North Carolina, where the latest in a string of kidnapping victims has turned up dead. Complicating the situation is the presence – and prediction – of someone who’s even more of an outsider than Jordan himself: carnival psychic Samantha Burke, a woman out of his own haunted past. Her warnings meet with skepticism for the local police, but spur Jordan on to do what he does best: hunt fear.
But the killer he is hunting is hunting Jordan – and he’s already several moves ahead in a twisted game whose rules Jordan must learn in order to have a fighting chance. For his psychopathic opponent has extended a very personal challenge – and he’s about to threaten the one life the profiler values, even more than his own……"