Ray

The first time I called 911 at the YWCA was one day early in my tenure. I was working the front desk with Jim and it was a swim lesson sign up day. Our system was inefficient and parents were impatient.

A guy came named Ray came in and said he talked the GM earlier in the week and the GM said he could have a trial work out. I asked for his last name and he said, "Just Ray. Tell him I'm the guy with the issue with the radio."

The GM gave him the OK.

About 20 minutes later Ray came down and said two women yelled at him when he changed the radio station. I went with him to the room with him and saw these two women who were definitely among our nicest members.

An argument ensued and escalated. Ray started threatening to beat them up. To this day I have no idea why, but I stepped in front of the guy and put my hands on his shoulders to try to get him to calm down and leave the room.

NOTE: I was 16 so I was probably around 5'9" or 5'10" and about 135 pounds soaking wet on Jupiter. Ray was probably 6'2" and somewhere in the mid 200s.

Ray eventually calmed down and went in the stairwell and started eating a breakfast sandwich. We called the police and he was banned from the premises.