TLDR: Jenn got the cops called on her for Recreating While Brown.

I've been making an effort to reconnect to the area after becoming a fairly comfortable shut in during Covid. I've been visiting the little towns in the area and seeing what's there. Today was Issaquah's turn.

After a breakfast at the Great American Diner, a walk through down town, with a side trip through the library just to finally get a library card and then a hot chocolate at Issaquah Coffee Company, I had about thirty minutes before sunset and decided to just enjoy a little time because I run life at a mile a minute.

I was at what seemed to be the post-apocalyptic Berntsen Park enjoying the petrichor atmosphere for about 15 minutes when the police pull up. Someone called about a suspicious person in the park. I'd noticed someone in the window watching me as I walked around, but didn't think anything of it, but they must have decided I was an undesirable and called in.

The police were professional and even a bit apologetic. I gave them ID, pointed out my car, and after about ten minutes they left. I waited a few minutes after that just to prove to whoever called me that I wasn't leaving...and then left.

It's a park.

People use parks.

Even the post-apocalyptic ones.

Don't freaking call the cops on people enjoying parks.

And, really, don't call the cops ON BROWN PEOPLE enjoying parks. This could have gone nightmarishly bad if someone else had shown up, I was in a different town, a different county or different state.

@dolari I have no words. I am sorry.