[Buddahaid]

I was a hostage in a robbery of a record store about thirty years ago just before Christmas. Two guys came in, one with a plastic bag over what looked like a gun. He was yelling and waving his arms so I looked up at him and then went back to browsing thinking it was another nut job off the street. The other guy comes up to me and herded me into the back office where everyone else was.

In the office the nut job was threatening an employee to get the safe open while she was making bricks so hard she couldn't work the combination the first two times. She did get it open, they took the cash and fled telling us to stay put in the office. Any way about ten seconds after they left, the security guard comes out of the restroom that was in that back office!

As far as I know they got clean away and I was thankful they hadn't robbed the hostages, but speed was their goal. I was happy to find out that I keep my cool and it was about two hours later that I got the shakes. That was very interesting and I suppose the result of the adrenaline wearing off.