Anybody out there with snakeskin

I want to share something with you.  A few days ago I got to demo a nice lotion product that used to be by prescription only.  Some of the usual eaters passed me by, but I was able to let the shoppers who did stop try the new product.  Most were impressed.

I learned from a customer that this lotion used to be “by prescription only.”  Now that line on my paperwork made more sense.  The line read “available without a prescription.”  I found that very odd at the time and wondered why anyone needed a prescription for lotion.

The lotion contains 12% alpha hydroxy acid and will exfoliate your skin as it nourishes it. 

This is great stuff!

This was a great demo because I could let my hair down and also didn’t have to wear a hairnet, gloves, apron and hat.  Yes sir, it was my lucky day!  And I certainly had fun with it.  I came home feeling great because all the customers gave me nice comments all day long.

By the end of the day, I bought a bottle of this myself even though it’s pricey for hand and body lotion, but it’s on sale for $13.87 so I decided to take the plunge.  That evening I used the lotion on my legs and feet, which are in terrible condition due to the dry weather we have here.  I was astonished when I got up the following morning and found my legs and feet so soft with no snakeskin.  My heels were even smoother.  That was after one treatment.

I’m really glad I splurged and got this.  I may have to get another bottle while it’s still on sale.

Many firsts

Citizens' Police Academy continues

Now that isn’t a bad thing at all.  This citizens’ police academy has been such a nice experience that I would encourage anyone to sign up; if you have a program like this where you live.  So much has happened since I last wrote about my classes but I don’t want to bore any of you with everything that goes on, although nothing has been boring to me.

I’ve truly had more going on in my life the last month than I’ve had in a long time.  Last Thursday’s class we all met at the jail in the next town over.  I hardly ever drive there, but I found it just fine. 

The sheriff’s department is also in this building.  We had a simulator on three giant movie screens in their training room where we gathered and could actually strap on a laser gun and answer dispatch calls, as if we were the police officer responding to the calls.  This was very interesting.  Then we got to interview a prisoner in the jail.  They brought him into the room in shackles.  How many of you out there have ever done that?  It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing.  The man is serving a twenty year sentence for murder that he got reduced to manslaughter.  It was his first offense.  He gets out in three years and seems to have changed his life while in prison.  He’s spent his time going to school and has earned two bachelor’s degrees.  His intention is to help future parolees obtain jobs and help them to adapt back into regular life.

 I took no pictures in this class and the following pictures will be equipment only and not any people.

The only disappointment in this night was that we didn’t get to see the booking process firsthand.  I’ll ask about that in a future class, if we’re allowed to make suggestions.  Of course I would have actually liked to have toured the jail itself, but I imagine they thought it might be a danger to us so that wasn’t offered.

 This is some of the bomb squad equipment

 

Saturday’s class was a morning one so I had to drag my butt out of bed and get my act together.  Thankfully the shooting range is only about ten minutes from my house.  It was drizzling and a nasty day with highs in the fifties, but we all assembled there and got to watch demos from the bomb squad, SWAT team and the motorcycle patrol.  Their training facility for some of this stuff is up there at the shooting range.

 This is one of the explosions I took a pic of

 

This coming Tuesday we get to meet the canine patrol and view a demo by the drug dog, Emma.  In conclusion, I have to say they have put together a great program that must have taken many man hours to prepare.  I have a three-inch binder full of information now.  Plus I have some business cards in case I want to interview any of these people later when the serious rewrite for my books begin.