Let me just say this....

I am fed up with people. I just learned that some asshole called my friend Allen's home on Saturday, threatening his wife. The person, who sounded like a black woman according to his wife, said, "Tell your husband to stop doing interviews about the dead guard, or you won't find out about him cheating on you for the past 10 years."

Whatever Allen said in those media interviews, the ones I could find online, was all GOOD about the guy. To my knowledge, he said nothing wrong or bad at all. I did not see the interviews occur on t.v., but Allen always had a very good friendship with just about everybody in the Museum during his years of working there. He got along with everyone, and everyone seemed to like him.

And for the record, to anybody out there who reads this blog and misunderstands.......Allen and I have been very good FRIENDS for a long time. At the Museum, your coworkers become like your family. You're all there risking your lives every day of the week, and so you tend to grow close to each other. I consider Allen part of my family, just like I consider the dead security guard to be part of my extended family, even though I didn't know the guy personally. He was still one of US, and that means everything.

I would never do or say anything bad about Allen or anyone whom I consider like family. I don't even have his home telephone number. He's been nice enough to give me rides home from work before when my car died, he's been there for me when I had bad dates with other guys and needed someone to talk to about it, he's told me problems that he's been through in his life that helped me gain new perspectives. We were working together on September 11th too and looked out for each other to safety.

He's a great friend, someone who goes above and beyond to help others, someone I trust with my life, and I feel that this disrespect towards him and his wife is absolutely unacceptable. If it is learned that the woman is a Museum employee, you can bet there will be some repercussions for it. I have some idea of who it might be, but it's up to Allen to find that out, not me.

Just because two adults who work closely together enjoy a close friendship does NOT automatically make them lovers. Allen worked 10-12 hour days a lot at the Museum, he didn't have TIME for anything like that even if he WANTED to. Besides, if you take a look at the GEOGRAPHY of Washington DC and where the Museum is located, and where I once LIVED, you would know that it was much too far to commute back and forth for him, as he lived in Maryland and I was in Virginia. If you know the traffic out there, you'd know that it's virtually impossible for someone to have an affair that far away. It's just common sense.

I stopped working at the Museum in 2001. Right after September 11th. I moved back home to Michigan after that. So, unless he's been going around seeing OTHER women on the side since then, I have no idea where this "ten year cheating" idea came from.

Sometimes on this blog, I write fictional things, because, HEY, I'm not stupid ya know, I write whatever pops into my head even if it's not exactly 100% truth simply because I am a writer and I am creative, and if I feel like it, that's what I end up with. There is nothing wrong with daydreaming about a close friend, or expressing a flirtatious comment about him once and awhile, but there's NO BASIS for any other conjecture on anybody's part. All ya gotta do, if you are suspicious about something I write or say about Allen, is ASK ME TO MY FACE about it. Don't jump to wrong conclusions.

Besides, those of you who follow this blog every day should already KNOW that I was with Peter for nearly three years.

So, all I can say to those idiot people out there who do stupid shit like that, SHUT THE FUCK UP until you know all the FACTS. Threatening somebody's marriage like that is WRONG, and if Allen said anything "bad" about that guard, you should talk straight to HIM about it, because there is no reason to get his WIFE involved. She never worked there, she didn't know the guard, she had nothing to do with any of it. Anything in Allen's personal life is HIS BUSINESS and nobody ELSE's. So leave him alone, and if you have any questions or concerns, you need to get some BALLS and talk to him personally about it.

That's all. Causing one of my "Museum family members" grief like this, especially during a grieving time for all of us, is unacceptable and will NOT be tolerated.

----Sassy Girl