For those who've read Carolyn Godschild Miller's Creating Miracles, here's a news story that will resonate.
Rabdau said he hasn't been able to figure out what happened.
"I was definitely expecting there would be some kind of casualty," Rabdau said this week. "He was very aggressive at first; then it turned into a love fest. I don't know what it was."
Rabdau, a federal government worker who lives in Anne Arundel County with his family and lived on Capitol Hill with his wife in the 1980s, said that the episode lasted about 10 minutes but seemed like an hour. He believes the guests were spared because they kept a positive attitude during the exchange.
"There was this degree of disbelief and terror at the same time," Rabdau said. "Then it miraculously just changed. His whole emotional tone turned -- like, we're one big happy family now. I thought: Was it the wine? Was it the cheese?"
Life is not like a box of chocolates where you never know what you are gonna get...more like you are the chocolates. Some are liked and some are not.
Posted by: Rich | July 13, 2007 at 04:37 PM
What a great little story. I love how the police wanted the guests to bear hug the guy and restrain him. Some live in black & white worlds, others are open to the gray. I think the latter are the ones who truly enjoy the bounty of life's random experiences.
Posted by: Marcel Cairo | July 13, 2007 at 04:49 PM
Quite an amazing story. Reminds me of the movie Crash. Perhaps that would-be robber will now have a change of heart. . .
Posted by: Matthew | July 13, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Matthew said: Perhaps that would-be robber will now have a change of heart. . .
Glad it worked out OK but he left the glass, not the gun.
Posted by: MarkL | July 13, 2007 at 08:34 PM