For the last couple months my personal alarm has been somewhat of an enemy to me. Three times I've accidentally set it off with costly consequences. The unwritten rule is that anyone accidentally setting off their alarm must buy donuts for the cops responding. I don't mind doing this, but the frequency of late has alarmed me (pun intended).
Yesterday I had a trouble-making inmate and the consequence for him was my purposely setting off my personal alarm. Approximately 20-30 custody staff responded and there was one less inmate in my library. Because the group I had in the library was a "special" group, I had no clerks. Of course, when my clerks reported to work they wanted to know why I had pushed my alarm. I gave them the bare facts.
Later in the day, one of my clerks pulled a book off the shelf about Queen Noor. She was an American who married the King of Hussein. He asked me if anyone had actually read the book. I told him that I had once assigned the book to an inmate who wanted a job. I told said inmate that if he read the book and did a book report, I would "consider" hiring him. He took the book, but I never got a report.
I then told my clerks that I thought it was sad that my husband had married a princess but there was no book written nor even a movie produced about our lives. One of my clerks then asked me, "Does your husband know that the princess sets off alarms?" LOL!
The moral of this story . . . I really don't know!
