STORY BEHIND THE POEM, JIMMY THE GREEK

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Jim is a brand new recruit with only a week on the street when this incident occurred. He had a brain numbing shift that night, trying to learn what he needed to do, during a typically busy shift. Well, I guess when he was about to go home his brain was to full, to function properly. Jimmy stripped down for his shower and wearing a skimpy towel, he plodded over and had his shower. When he returned he discovered that he had inadvertently snapped the lock on his locker closed. Try as he might, he could not get the lock to open and could not find any tools to break the lock. With nobody around to help, and no clothes to wear to leave the locker room, he finally broke down and called the Inspector, who had access to the office with the spare locker keys. Well, Jimmy, being a well trained, impressionable and polite recruit, did what he thought he had to do when a senior officer was present. He snapped to attention, which very nearly caused his towel to fall off. He managed to preserve his modesty, but, I still managed to find out the story from my usual unnamed sources.
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