A Mile in My Shoes

[Kev Allison]

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MIND YOUR MANNERS

and tell the truth

Kev nodded to the girl, well if it helped her get onto something for herself and it wasn’t holding out for Kid Rock to come and save her. It had to be positive right? “See I know I’m right about a few things.” Kev said grinning as he saw Mattie roll her eyes. The day was turning out to be far more interesting than he’d ever thought it could be and it wasn’t for the lack of interesting people. How the woman would fair at the hospital, maybe she would make more sense with a few meds or not but at least it was an option to help.

Feeling the grip on his wrist Kev smiled at the woman. “See you’ll be perfectly great with those guys. Just find me when you get your first album out.” He said positively standing back as he watched her loaded into the ambulance. Kev glanced back at Mattie with a smile. “Oh you’re just jealous... I mean sure if Kid rock was going to save anyone it would be her. Not heard her music but you never know, could be the next Adele?” Kev said smiling at her.

“Nice job to you too, I can’t believe this is what you deal with all day. Usually all this is in story form by the time it crosses my desk.” He said, there were notes upon notes, statements and witnesses for what happened and it wasn’t always simple either. “So do you want to go grab a coffee now or do we need to save the next wave of intruders to earth?” Kev asked grinning, there didn’t seem to be a dull moment at all for Mattie in her job. His worst day was finding out he was in the wrong courtroom or there was a witness that he didn’t know about.

This was way more interesting and if he didnt have a job he loved already, he was sure he would be transferring to the police department as soon as he could. Just for the excitement of the day to day things there.

Tag: Mattie Chappel

SWANSKI

[Mattie Chappel]

"Coffee sounds great, as long as the local natives cooperate." There was occasional 'down time', although more often than not, that time was used finishing reports. "I've got to do the paperwork anyway, so sitting for a few minutes wouldn't hurt and would make it easier to sit. There's a park a block or so away that has a kiosk, if you don't mind...Koda could use a potty break!"

It was a nice day, so sitting at an outside table was fine, as opposed to days when you just wanted to be inside to escape the oppressively humid heat.

"It's not like this non-stop all the time," she explained as they headed back to the cruiser, "some days can be pretty frustrating, dealing with petty complaints and fights...makes you wonder about people sometimes!"

Kev Allison,

[Kev Allison]

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MIND YOUR MANNERS

and tell the truth

“Wait you mean you don’t have designated coffee breaks?” Kev asked feeling it was a stupid question but if it wasn’t for coffee at the office. People would be nervous wrecks. “Sure I don’t mind that at all and it works out for all three of us, Koda has time, you get paperwork and I get to watch the world go by on my new favourite ride along.” He said grinning as he didn’t have an issue with any part of it.

He needed a minute to catch up with the last ten things that had happened already, aliens, Kid Rock... really was there anymore the day could throw at them? “You mean you only got the crazies out today for me? Aww Mattie.” I say smiling, “That’s sooo sweet.” Honestly he couldn’t imagine dealing with this all day, he thought lawyers were bad and it wasn’t like he had much of this to cope with either.

“Sure I mean I’m wondering already, I didn’t think that we’d be doing this at all, glad it’s not fights yet. I mean as fun as those sound, pretty sure Koda can scare most fights off.” He added grinning, or he was going to end up getting his hands dirty in one. Who knew being a cop was so much fun, it beat paperwork and coffee with the most death defying thing he did was risking a donut from a box that might have been there an hour or three days. Time had a strange way of working.

Tag: Mattie Chappel

SWANSKI

[Mattie Chappel]

It struck her as a little funny that someone who, even indirectly, worked with police would be under the same misinformation that emergency workers -- cops, firefighters, paramedics -- had regular breaks, but used the lights and sirens to get there!

"No, no lunch, no snacks, sometimes not even a break to pee depending on the call volume." She shrugged as they arrived at the kiosk, where she ordered a coffee and cinnamon roll, allowing Kev to pay if he'd like, then continued as they headed to a table.

"Anyway, you get used to leaving food behind and peeing when you can!" She grinned, then settled at a table, sitting on the table part and resting her feet on the bench. "And you''re right, having Koda can help diffuse a situation, whether it's because people are afraid he'll attack or because they think he's cute and fluffy, and he's a distraction."

She took a bite of pastry then laughed. "Little do they know I'm the fluffy one!"

Kev Allison,

[Kev Allison]

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MIND YOUR MANNERS

and tell the truth

Kev mostly saw cops when they didn’t want to see him, he was dragging them out of work to sit in a room until they were called to testify for whatever reason that was. Usually nothing good if he was required to get involved but it didn’t make for great small talk about jobs. He wasn’t from a serving family, even his venture into the Navy had been looked upon with disgust by his family. They were the sort of family that got everyone off the charges, they didn’t lock them up for things.

“Wow really, surely that can’t be right?” Kev said shaking his head, if there wasn’t a bathroom in the court house there’d be a lot less business conducted between lawyers. It was an easy meeting place and one where you could be ambushed as well. After all everyone needed to eat and go to the loo at some point.

Kev gladly paid for their food and drinks as he smiled picking up what was there as he laughed nodding. “Oh yeah i’d not be the cop that left it, take it with me and run with it if I had to.” He said laughing lightly as he sat at the table stretching out a little. “Yikes... makes Koda sound much scarier now, if you’re the fluffy one.” He said with a grin as he nudged her lightly. “But sure I guess if a dog barks you automatically have a sense of fear or at least that something’s not quiet right.” He added grinning.

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SWANSKI

[Mattie Chappel]

Mattie laughed. "Truth be told, I've heard of more than one instance where the patrol officers had someone holed up someplace and they acted like they had a dog that they were going to send in!" She laughed. "One of them would tell the 'dog' to sic-'em and the other would start barking! It actually works!"

Most people had no desire to tangle with a large dog. "It actually works!" Then she frowned. "Maybe I shouldn't say that...would it hold up in court, or could they claim they were deceived?" Honestly, she could see that happening.

"But Judge, my client never would have given up if he hadn't thought that there was a dog they were going to send in!" She laughed again. "At least I have a real dog, and so far he hasn't been called to testify." Not that she wouldn't put it past some DA!

Kev Allison,

[Kev Allison]

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“People seriously fall for that?” Kev asked laughing, honestly the things people did he swore wouldnt be surprised anymore but there was always that one next thing. Then again hyped up on adrenaline he really wouldn’t want to check if there was dog waiting to eat him or not. Nope it was just easier to give up than try to out run a hair missile.

“Stupidity isn’t a valid defence so I think you’d be okay.” He added grinning, “So long as you didn’t ask them to tango out under threat of being eaten or something.” There were times when he wished he could turn the lawyer side off. Everything came down to the law and when he got thinking that way, things just ran off the tongue like he was some sort of weird law Google.

“Well they are talking about scent detection these days and dogs are very smart. Once had a case where the defendant said they didn’t know the dog, the dog went straight to him in several different settings. Park, home, office... solved a lot of issues.” Kev said as he laughed, “Dogs will rule the world one day or at least their owners to a point.”

He hadn’t any doubt on that fact, any pet owner was owned by the pet not the other way around as people liked to think. Still he wouldn’t put it past an attorney to actually call a dog to the stand. There had been stranger things done and not always ones that worked either.

Tag: Mattie Chappel

SWANSKI

[Mattie Chappel]

Mattie laughed, reaching to scratch Koda's ears, then bit into her goody again. "I'm with you, I wouldn't even put it past that dog you mentioned, that it singled out that guy on purpose and didn't even know him!"

After a sip of her drink, she added, "But yeah, I can see it...'Planet of the Dogs', you know, like Charlton Heston and Roddy...hey! That's a brilliant idea, we should do that! Rottweilers and pit bulls can be like the Gorillas and Golden Retrievers and Labs can be the chimpanzees!"

Of course, it was a stupid suggestion, but just picturing it had her laughing. "So, when are we going to quit our day jobs and set up a production company? KoKevMa Productions!"

Kev Allison,

[Kev Allison]

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“Oh yeah, had him trained to do that. Just stuck a load of bacon to the guy and who knew... it worked wonders.” Kev said with a smirk, it wasn’t that he would dive that low to get a conviction but then again he knew a few attorneys that would take that risk. It seemed like a good idea at the start but it was a slippery slope and one Kev wanted to stay away from.

“Exactly, dogs can take over the world and outlast all humans.” He said with a grin chuckling. “Sounds like a great idea, you know anything about filming because I can just direct stuff or attempt it.” Beyond loving to watch movies when he had time which was usually never, he couldn’t even remember the last time he had gone to the cinema or really caught a movie on the sofa. It was one of those late night, stick whatever tv channel on and half watch whatever it was and fall asleep right before the end at 3am.

Usually he managed to see the same part of the same movie five times before seeing the start or end of it, only half way through did he get the ‘yeah I remember this part’ issue. Still if being a lawyer didn’t pay, which it didnt really at least they had a plan B now. Cop and lawyer turned production superstars. After all dog movies won big from what he read, anything that was pet related really did.

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SWANSKI

[Mattie Chappel]

"Filming? Nope." Mattie munched on her pastry for a minute. "But how hard can it be? Point the camera and shout, 'Action!'." She laughed. "Well, I guess I do have some experience, what with body-cams and all. You should see some of the stellar video I've done with that thing!"

Then she laughed. "Oh, right, I bet you get to see plenty of that in court." Her nose wrinkled up. "I bet there are YouTube movies on making movies. Koda would have to be the star, of course, and you...He'd have to save the Lawyer that the evil min-pins want to eliminate because he's prosecuting Don Rottie, head of the Pooch Cartel."

Wow, this was getting silly! But somehow, silly seemed so natural with Kev...and good. "Too bad there's no role for the hero-cop!"

Kev Allison,