Leaving Detroit, 1984

[Ray1936]

It was 1984. I had retired from the Detroit Police Department and moved to Las Vegas, as most of my family was already in the area. In job hunting, I responded to an ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal for Security Officers for the Nevada Test Site. Sounded pretty good....long hours away from home, but excellent pay and bennies. So I filled out an application and mailed it in.

A week later, I received a letter from the Security Agency asking me to report to the Test Site for a physical. A bus would convey me from LV to the site, no problem. So off I went into the wild interior of Nye County.

Upon arrival, they put me through the usual pre-physical routine, and then gave me a voucher for lunch. Walked into the Quonset Hut and picked out an excellent lunch menu. Took my tray, and sat down at the nearest seat, which were on long picnic-like tables, end to end. After I sat down, I glanced at the gentleman sitting directly across from me, and was mentally hit with a sledge hammer.

The guy looked exactly like Dr. Edward Teller, the designer of the nuclear bomb. Wow!

Of course, it wasn't; it was just a look-alike, but it sure upset my lunch.

Bottom line: I was offered the position, but by then I had accepted the Chief of Security job at The Fashion Show Mall, and since there was a lot less travel involved, yeah, you know the bottom line.

May have posted this before, but it still gives me a helluva chuckle!