CANCELLED

 I was fired from my job at Stones River Town Centre on May 30 2023 after almost 13 of service. Stones River Town Centre was formally Stones River Mall and was rebranded as Stones River Town Centre a few years ago when Sterling Organization assumed ownership. I began working for Dynamic Security at Stones River Mall in June 2010 after retiring from Bridgestone-Firestone in Lavergne Tennessee after 22 years. When I went to work at the mall I was a part-time officer averaging 32 hours a week. Stones River Mall was a thriving medium sized mall then. It had recently gone through an extensive remodeling and expansion in 2008 and it was under different ownership at that time. There were no empty tenant spaces as I recall. It remained this way for a number of years. I loved working at the mall, although dealing with unruly teens and customers could be very stressful at times. Around 2016 I reluctantly became the site supervisor. Prior to that, being technically retired, I just didn't want to take on the stress of being in management again. Dynamic Security lost their contract around 2012 and SEI Security took over. SEI asked me to be site supervisor but being on social security I couldn't work fulltime plus I was happy being a regular officer. SEI only lasted about 7 months and Allied-Barton then took over security. AB asked me to be the site supervisor but again I couldn't take the job. Allied-Barton merged with Universal Security and we became Allied-Universal after the merger. For several years I worked under supervisors who were teenagers but fortunately they were very mature for their age and we worked well together. I played the role of the older more experienced mentor to these guys. Over time my daughter Misty became site supervisor and again we worked well together. She was living in Clarksville Tennessee which was an hour drive one way for her to work. Over time she was compelled to find a higher paying job. Another lady took over named Cindy and she was only there about a month. When she left I had a decision to make. I was no longer working under a social security cap and there were no viable people to promote from within our security team. This meant that if I didn't take the site supervisor job they would hire an outsider and it would be a roll of the dice. We might get a total jerk and I didn't want to take that chance so I agreed to take the job. 

 Something happened shortly before I became site supervisor that exposed the pettiness and incompetency of the Sterling Organization management. Our play area has been a snake pit the entire time I worked there. What I mean by this is that parents are very sensitive when it comes their children. The play area was a fairly small enclosure that had a slide, play house and various structures for kids to play on. Rules were posted at the entrance stating that kids couldn't be over 42 inches tall, no strollers, food, etc. and they had to use inside voices. Nearby tenants would complain about the kids screaming quite frequently. By the time my officers, or myself, arrived on scene the kids were just being kids and most of the time we would just stand there and observe them. After a few minutes we would leave until the next complaint call. Sometimes we would receive 5 or 6 noise complaint calls in a shift. Occasionally the noise would be loud enough that we could hear the kids all the way on the other side of the mall and then we would be forced to do something. We had several options. We could appeal to the parents individually or stand in the middle of the play area and make an announcement. Our last resort was to shut the play area down for cleaning by housekeeping. There was a group of mothers that had a Facebook page and they would regularly bring their children to the mall and meet in the play area. We had been meeting with some resistance from these parents who were offended when we spoke to them about their children. There was one woman in particular that was pretty vocal. The mall manager wanted us to enforce all the rules and we were simply doing our job and we always tried to do it in a courteous and professional manner. One day while I was on mobile patrol I got a noise complaint call from a tenant. I dispatched the officer on patrol inside the mall to the play area. Had I known what was about to happen I would have responded myself but we had received a thousand such calls in the past. My officer arrived on scene about the same time as the mall manager. Apparently the Facebook moms group was there when the mall manager asked them for help in keeping the noise level down. One particular mom, who was playing with her children on the floor, became involved in a heated verbal exchange with the mall manager regarding her children. That night Facebook blew up with vicious attacks against Stones River Mall management and our security staff. 

The mall opened at 10:00 AM but the play area didn't open until 11:00, which I thought was a crazy rule but the mall manager insisted that security enforce all the rules. We had a chain across the entrance plus we shoved planters in front as a further obstruction. Parents would lower their children into the play area or even move the planters, lower the chain and just walk on in regardless of the posted signs saying the play area was closed. It was during this volatile time that I received a call one morning that several adults with children were in the play area before it opened. I had a gut feeling that I might have trouble so before walking up to the play area I began videotaping with my cellphone. I simply held it in my hand down by my side to capture the audio. It is a good thing that I did. There was one woman sitting off to right while a man and another woman were sitting on the bench to my left. In a courteous and professional manner I reminded them that the play area didn't open until 11:00. I said that they would have to leave and come back in thirty minutes. The woman to my right and the man began gathering their children to leave but the woman sitting next to him just continued to sit there as if she hadn't heard what I had said. I asked her if she had heard me. She looked up at me and said that she wasn't leaving. I then told her that she would have to leave. She then asked me what I was going to do, arrest her. I replied no ma'am I am not a police officer but this is what I will do. If you don't leave I will call the police and they will ask you to leave. Then, if you tell them no they will arrest you for criminal trespass. Realizing that she had lost the argument she angrily began gathering her two children together. As she passed me she said I can tell that you have never had children. I said no ma'am my wife and I raised 5 and we have 12 grandchildren. After she left I walked over to the management office and told the secretary that she might get a call or a visit about our confrontation but I let her know that I had videotaped it. As expected about an hour later I received a call over the radio to come to the management office. When I arrived our mall manager was in a violent argument with a man who was up in her face. Before I could intervene she angrily looked at me and said Segroves show him that video. I played the video for him and his face turned white. His whole demeanor changed in an instant when he realized that his wife had placed him in an embarrassing situation. He profusely apologized to me and everyone in the room. It was after this incident that I made the decision to buy a body camera. 

The uproar on social media continued about the play area and somebody told me that one of the mom's in the group had made the threat that they were going to pack the play area on a certain day with children. After sugaring them up they were going to encourage them to make as much noise as possible. I had heard many empty threats over the years but I decided that I better let the mall manager know about this one. She asked our site supervisor Cindy if she could get one of our off duty police officers to work on the day in question and to bring in extra security officers. She did as asked but nothing happened on the targeted day mentioned in the Facebook post. A few days after that, however; the play area was packed with children. One nearby tenant told me that he had never seen so many children packed into the play area and he had never heard it as loud as it was that day. I was off that day but we had a young 19 year old security officer working that shift. He said that the noise was so loud that he had to go to the play area about 4 times asking the parents to please help keep the noise down. Later he was standing at center court when he received another complaint from a tenant. Just as he began walking in that direction the mall manager passed him at a trot motioning for him to follow her. She quieted the area long enough to appeal to the parents to please help with the noise. As she and the young officer were walking away she told him that if he had to return to the play area one more time to shut it down and call housekeeping, shutting it down for the rest of the day. As expected the noise level became unbearable again and the officer announced to the parents that he was shutting the play area down for cleaning. One woman sarcastically asked the officer if he was closing it down because it really needed cleaning or was he doing it because of the noise. The officer was inexperienced and told her he was closing it for both reasons. This was the wrong answer which was his first mistake. He should have said for housekeeping reasons and left it at that. The woman then stood up shouting at the top of her lungs that they all had to leave because of the mean security guard. The way he handled this outburst was his second mistake. He should have ordered her to leave mall property and if she refused he should have called the police. A police officer told me later that she could have been arrested for disturbing the peace. By not taking firm action the young officer allowed the situation to escalate. The woman then demanded to see the mall manager. As he was escorting her to the mall office she told him that she worked in marketing and she would fix his ass. This was his third mistake. Again he should have ordered her to leave. When she saw the mall manager it escalated into an intense argument. As she was leaving she walked around to several tenants and asked them if they had complained about the play area. Again this was a violation of protocol and she could have been trespassed for her behavior. The woman causing the problem that night had been the main troublemaker and I believe belonged to this moms group. This was the children's riot that had been promised earlier on Facebook but had simply happened on a different day than expected. 

The next day this woman kept her promise and walked into the Daily News Journal office asking to see a reporter. The reporter accepted this woman's version of events at face value and never bothered to call security or anyone in mall management to ask our side of the story. On the following morning this story was front page news. The mall manager and this young security officer were made to look like tyrannical bullies and this woman was a meek little mother being pushed around in front of her children for for no reason at all. That afternoon after the story broke I reported to work and learned that the mall manager had been fired. Honestly, I wasn't overly fond of her for various reasons but on this issue she was given a raw deal. While being briefed by Cindy as I was coming on shift someone called Cindy from upper management in Sterling Organization demanding that we fire every security officer that we had except for me and herself. After she got off of the phone I told her that if she followed his orders I would quit. The absolute nerve of these people. There was only one officer involved in this incident and they were wanting to fire officers that weren't even working that night. The officer involved was following mall protocol and direct orders from the mall manager. In addition the young man was a perfect gentleman that was liked by everyone working in the mall. If anything he was not tough enough to do that job. Had I been there I would have definitely been fired because I would have had the woman trespassed or arrested. Cindy quit a few days later to take another job and I became the security site supervisor. I was adamant about protecting my officers jobs and a few days after this happened Jordan Fried, and several others in upper management came to the mall on a visit. I believe that it was Jordan who had demanded the termination of our officers. I asked to speak to him in private and made my case for my officers. He lamely tried to validate the malls actions in the past few days but I made my case as best as I could. When I left his office I didn't know whether or not he was going to try to force me to fire them. I never brought up the subject again and I never heard anything else from them. No news was good news and my officers weren't forced out of their jobs. I was told, however; that we were never supposed to speak to a parent in the play area again about the rules. They could come and go as they pleased and act crazy if they wanted to. There would be no starting or ending times. If we violated these orders we could be fired on the spot. Crazy but true. This situation was changed a few years later after everything died down by a new mall manager but even then we were limited on how far we could go. As I said, that place was a snake pit for security. Many had suggested that the mall do away with it altogether but Sterling management has refused to do anything. Believe it or not the woman who caused all the trouble had the gall a few weeks later to ask our mall marketing manager if she could come in and videotape all the changes to the play area whatever that meant. To our marketing managers credit she basically said not no but hell no.

Now fast forward to my termination. I told the story about the play area to give the reader a glimpse of the incompetent actions of Sterling management and their approach to handling things. Our mall was dying even before COVID which is a fairly common thing for malls all over the country due to the success of businesses like Amazon. Brick and mortar stores seem to be on the way out. On the other hand I think malls can survive with good competent management that is capable of thinking outside of the box but in my view it won't happen with Sterling. As I said earlier I loved working at the mall. I don't think that I ever loved a job as much as I loved that one. The sole exception was working at NORAD inside Cheyenne Mountain Colorado but I was only there for a year. Even as a regular security officer when I first started at the mall I took ownership of it. I did not want to do anything that might allow the mall management to be embarrassed or the security company that I was working for. My attitude never changed. In my mind Stones River Town Centre was my mall. I wanted it to be the last job I ever worked and I hoped to work there as long as my body and mind was able to pull it off. In September 2022 I was needing new officers because several had moved on to other things. One day a young man walked into my office wanting a job. I had a 2nd shift supervisors job available. I interviewed him and I was willing to take a chance on him. The interview went well but toward the end of it he told me oh by the way I am transitioning into a woman. From the standpoint of being a supervisor in this age of wokeness I probably shouldn't have said what I said but any relationship, whether professional or personal should be based on trust and transparency. I have personal convictions about the trans movement and I wanted him to know up front where I stood. I wanted him to know that I wouldn't compromise on my values but I would not allow them to interfere with our professional relationship. All I cared about is that he did a good job and he told me I was being fair. From the beginning our relationship was based on courtesy and respect.  To be honest in the security business I didn't have a lot of wiggle room when it came to hiring. Applicants are few and security is a 24/7 business and posts have to be manned. So, unless I saw something so obviously wrong during the interview process I was willing to take a chance on them. As a result I ended up hiring some real winners and one or two were lunatics. After hiring him I managed to assemble a pretty good team over time.

He once told me that he is a proud leftist and he has told other officers that he is a socialist. I feel sure that if he knew the history of world socialism and how destructive socialism is he would probably change his mind. He came from a broken home I was told that he came from a dysfunctional family background. The trans movement is financed by elitist billionaires. It is not a grass roots movement as is believed. The medical industrial complex as well as big pharma is also pushing it because of the opportunity to make tons of money. For this they are willing to permanently maim children with life altering surgeries and drugs. I am not surprised since the Democrat party has been responsible for the deaths of over 60 million babies through abortion. The cultural communists have been pushing the trans agenda in order to undermine traditional common sense family values, or the values of the Bourgeoisie. Common sense is the biggest impediment to Communism. In order to win the Communist argument you must destroy common sense. The conservative movement now represents the truth and the Democrat party represents the "Big Lie" . Their agenda claims everything that is wrong for this country. They preach hatred for America, open borders, the climate change scam, the radical homosexual rights agenda, the trans agenda, out of control spending, a proxy war in Ukraine which enriches corrupt politicians, Critical Race Theory, the indoctrination of our children and our military with the Communist woke agenda, the weaponization of the FBI, CIA, intelligence services and the IRS which is unleashed against the American people. They turn American against American by defining half of us as white supremacist terrorists. At one time American's had different political opinions and we had valid debates. Today many people can't even agree on self evident truths such as the biological fact that there are only two sexes. America has become one big insane asylum. The Democrat Party has always been bad for this country. They were the party of the Trail of Tears, slavery, they started the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history because they couldn't accept the results of a national election, they were the party of segregation, the Klan, lynching and the party of internment for American's of Japanese descent. From this they have morphed into an elitist globalist, fascist party. 

When I hired this officer I asked him if he could handle confrontation. This is a question that I asked all of my officers that I hired. Some people can't handle confrontation. People have worked the job for a while but left only after a few weeks citing that they couldn't handle confrontation or the disrespect that they felt from some of our customers. One female officer told me that she felt like she was working in the wild west. Personally I have never liked confrontation and before taking this job I tried to avoid it if possible but I trained myself to handle it after I started working at the mall. I have been through many trying and crazy circumstances. Primarily dealing with disrespectful teenagers and adults. Bullying is something that I hate and many people would try to bully me. In the eyes of some I was just a "lumpy assed old man" as one teenager called me. Or I was Paul Blart, Barney Fife, or a rent a cop as I was called on many occasions. One 35 year veteran of the Nashville police force told me that more security officers are killed in the line of duty each year than police officers. Kids would walk past me and call me Paul Blart. Sometimes I would walk up to them and ask if they had ever watched the Paul Blart movies. When they said yes I would say thanks for calling me Paul Blart because always ended up the hero. Of course I can't tell you how many times I have been called racist. Some people of color must have believed that I only made blacks or Hispanics obey the rules and never approached a white person at all. On one occasion I was walking by a white man who was seated in a chair and he jumped up and started berating me. He demanded to know why I was staring at him. I told him that I wasn't looking at him. He complained that he was constantly being singled out because of his tattoos. I was flabbergasted because until he said something I didn't even know he was sitting there. I had never laid eyes on him before in my life. It was always my goal to approach everyone with courtesy and respect before speaking to them. I didn't care if the person was 10 years old I would address them as ma'am or sir before speaking. The only exception might be if I saw you doing something stupid or unsafe like running or riding your skateboard in the mall which happened on many occasions then I might have to raise my voice to get their attention. If I felt like I was being bullied I would then shift into pit bull mode. I have been bullied enough in my life to recognize bullying and I know how bad I felt when I didn't feel like I stood up to them. If you bullied me you would have two options. Immediately change your behavior or you were going to have to leave. If you refused, cursed me, or threatened me, which happened many times, the police were going to be called and you would then leave or go to jail. You also risked being permanently banned from all mall property. This "lumpy assed old man" didn't back down to bullies. 

My transexual officer told me when I interviewd him that he thought he could handle confrontation but being a transexual might invite bullying from some of the people he had to deal with. I told him that I hated bullying and I would have his back if I ever witnessed anyone trying to bully him. If it came from the customers, tenants or anyone on our security team. I hired him in September 2022 and we had a cordial and respectful relationship until my termination on May 30, 2023. He asked for many days off which I never refused to arrange for him and many shift swaps. If it were possible to swap shifts we did it. Many times I swapped shifts with him myself. He was very good to me when my wife spent six weeks at Vanderbilt hospital having a heart valve replaced. If I needed a shift swap he always complied and was always asking me if he could help in any way. He never failed to ask how I was doing and how my wife was doing when he saw me. It seemed like a genuine concern. Over time I noticed though that he was not filling out paperwork correctly and wasn't following proper security protocol. He tended to hand off responsibilities to other officers that he should have been taking on himself. I hired him to be a shift supervisor and he was reluctant to supervise. His coworkers were complaining that they felt like they were working alone when he was there and that they couldn't count on him as back-up. I spoke to him many times about these problem areas and he was always very apologetic and would promise to do better. As far as confrontation many times he would take the side of the offender and did not seem to have a grasp on the fundamentals of security protocol. I saw this firsthand when we were working together one night. A store manager called our security phone and asked if I would escort an employee from his store that he had just terminated. I told the officer to follow me to the store and he was to stay close in case I needed him. Upon arrival I went in while he remained outside. The employee was irate and taking her time gathering up her personal things to leave. The terminated employee was also using foul language. I asked the employee to speed things up. The manager asked me to call the police which I did but I terminated the call when she finally walked out of the store. After returning to the security office the officer told me that the terminated employee was in the right because she had been fired for bogus reasons. I had to explain to him that it didn't matter if she was completely in the right. We had to follow the wishes of the store manager. I told him that she could take civil action later but our job was not to represent her in that situation but we were there to represent the interests of the tenant. I told him that the concept of private property generally trumped everything else. This was security 101 and he simply had difficulty grasping the concept. 

By the end of May my patience was wearing thin with him. The tipping point came when he answered a theft call at one of our department stores. He didn't fill out the ban form properly for each of the two alleged thieves and did not write an incident report. I decided that I was going to have to start documenting. He was fourth in seniority behind me and two other officers. In my view he had been there long enough to know how to handle a theft. We had several training sessions regarding the banning procedure.  I started out with an oral warning which is the first step in what can be a four step procedure ending in termination. My hope was that he would improve the quality of his work performance so that it wouldn't end in termination. I am all about redemption. On the day I gave the officer the oral warning we walked to the conference room. In the conference room I began the meeting by asking him how long he had been employed with us. He replied since September. I said that by now he should know how to fill out a ban form. Then I took the ban form and explained to him what he had done wrong. He apologized and acknowledged that he had not followed procedure. I then asked him "where is your incident report". He tried to argue that he didn't fill it out because the police never showed up. Actually they had but it had been about thirty minutes after they had been called by the stores loss prevention. I explained that I didn't expect him to wait all night for the police but there had still been an attempted theft and two people had been banned. Regardless of how long it took the police to respond the ban forms were not filled out properly and an incident report needed to be filed. He agreed with me and promised to do better. I told him that if he ever had a similar situation in the future he could call dispatch and get the police report number for his report, name and badge number of the officer. Also I told him if in the future that if he had to leave before police arrived to follow up with the tenant and find out how the situation was resolved. In this case the tenant decided not to prosecute the alleged thieves but they did want them permanently trespassed. Not long after this incident the housekeeping supervisor walked into my office and in his animated fashion asked me if I knew that the mall manager was quitting. I said no, I hadn't heard anything. He said that the officer I had written up was spreading the news around the mall. I was irritated by this because I don't want officers spreading news like that around the mall until it becomes official and I expect them to tell me before they tell anyone else. When I confronted him about it he said that he had told the property manager in a conversation that he was quitting in a couple of months. This is when the property manager told him he was also leaving. This happened just prior to our meeting where I gave him the oral warning. The next day I believe Carol, our mall secretary, wanted me to listen to a voice mail that she received from a female customer complaining that while she was using a restroom with her small children near Spencer's some teens were beating on the door. She kept telling them that she would be out in a minute but they wouldn't stop. She said that this frightened her and she complained that there was no security personnel around. The woman also said that she would never be back to the mall. I defended my officers who were working that night because I knew they were good about patrolling and I knew from experience that no matter how thorough your patrols are you can't be everywhere at once. Carol agreed with me. Later, that day. however; I was livid when I found out that this officer was approached by this woman but he did nothing. He did not offer her a customer complaint form and he didn't do an incident report. I decided right then that I was going to write him up again. This time it would be a written warning. 

I called my supervisor and told him that I was going to write him up again. He told me to wait until the Tuesday after Memorial Day to do it because he wanted to be there when I gave it to him. Unknown to me, apparently the decision had already been made by mall management to terminate me. He later told me that he would be there at 2:00 PM on May 30th. When I told him that the officer in question was off on Tuesday's, he said not to worry, he would contact him. That Tuesday he showed up exactly at 2:00 PM which was very unusual because he usually never showed up in the past when he said he would. When he walked into my office he closed the door behind him, sat down and quickly came to the point. He opened by saying that this was the kind of thing he hated to do but I was no longer going to be working at the mall. I was being terminated because mall management wanted a change. When I asked why I was totally floored by his answer. He said because I couldn't get police officers to work at the mall. They didn't want to work with me and also I had bullied the transexual officer in the disciplinary meeting. Supposedly mall management was afraid that he might file a lawsuit. My head was spinning. It was like a living nightmare. I had one hour to clear 13 years of my life out of my office. To begin with both reasons for my termination were totally bogus. I had been having problems for a while getting police officers to work at the mall. We only had one deputy working there at the time. About a year ago I talked to the mall manager about the problem. He asked me what I thought the problem was and I said that it could be several things. I said that a previous security company had problems paying the officers and we might have developed a bad reputation because of it. I also knew that I had one particular security officer that some of my off duty police officers didn't like working with but he was no longer working at the mall. I suggested that the pay was not competitive enough. We were only paying 30 dollars an hour and most places were paying 40 dollars an hour. He immediately agreed to raise the pay to 40 dollars but even the pay raise did not attract extra officers. I checked around and other businesses were having the same problem hiring police officers. After I was fired I talked to an officer who is a personal friend of mine and who worked with me for years. He laughed when I told him what they said. The reason he said that officers didn't want to work at the mall wasn't because of me. It was because they wanted off duty jobs that weren't like their regular job. He said that when you are a police officer working at the mall you are going to be chasing people down, making arrests, doing paperwork and spending time booking them. When he worked at the mall he said that he worked harder than he did on his regular job. He said that he had more foot chases at the mall than any place he ever worked. 

The charge that I bullied the transsexual officer was totally bogus also. I have been bullied enough in my life to recognize bullying and I did not bully him. The next morning he called me and ask me if I was okay. He said that he had received a strange text from a friend of his on the housekeeping crew. I told him that I been fired and to be blunt the reason given was that I had bullied him in the meeting. He sounded as incredulous as I felt the moment my supervisor had repeated the accusation to me. The officer said that he never felt bullied by me and that I had always treated him with nothing but respect. He said that he had it coming because he hadn't been doing his job. I asked him if he had complained to mall management and he said no. At that point I was contemplating legal action and I asked him if he would repeat what he had told me under oath in court. He said that he would. Under Tennessee law a person can be fired without cause. In this case my character has been attacked, however. If they had told me I had been fired because I wasn't patrolling enough or for something I was doing wrong on the job, or even that I was too old I wouldn't have agreed with them but I could have accepted these reasons better than being charged with bullying someone because I disagree with their lifestyle. I wasn't given the opportunity to defend myself or face my accuser just like in the play area incident. The decision was made and just like that I was terminated. Does this mean that at Stones River Town Centre a transexual can never be disciplined in any way? What is the difference between this situation and saying that a person cannot be disciplined because of the color of their skin or their gender. Can they just do anything they want to on the job and never be disciplined for the poor quality of their work. We hear all the time from the left that the trans community are fearful of people who don't see things their way. I wish I had their power to scare people with just the threat of a lawsuit. The moral of this story is that no matter what they did to me I will not be defeated by this. I am a victor and not a victim. You might ask why I chose to write about this. It is because this is my only platform for telling my side of the story.  I have to believe in the truth of God's Word. I am very angry about this and I know that eventually I will have to forgive the person or persons responsible and who rewarded my loyalty and commitment to my job with such treachery. The wounds are too fresh right now, however; but when time heals these wounds I will be able to forgive. In the meantime I believe we serve a just God. Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

August 14, 2023

When I originally wrote this article I was very angry. In my anger I assumed that our mall secretary Carol was the one who went to our property manager Matt Sifrit and told him that I had bullied the transsexual officer. That was because there were only three people present in the meeting. The officer, myself, and Carol. The officer signed an affidavit saying that I didn't bully him so in my mind that only left Carol who could have said something to Matt. I have discovered recently what really happened and I owe Carol an apology for what I said about her in this article. Sometimes I am not aware of how loud I am when I am talking and Matt was listening outside the door. I had a bad feeling about him when he was hired as property manager and all I am going to say is that my feeling proved to be right. In retrospect God did me a favor by allowing me to be removed from that situation. I am happier now and my blood pressure has been perfect since I left. While I was there it ran consistently on the high side. Although I don't like the distance I have to drive and the schedule I am happier and under much less stress.