Glitter Ninja wrote:

> This afternoon has SUCKED. I almost got robbed, but chicken stock
> saved the day.
> Yesterday I simmered some chicken stock all night, and the house still
> smelled like it. I opened the huge dining room curtain so that the sun
> could shine in the sliding glass doors and help get rid of some of the
> smell.
> This afternoon I'm watching TV when I see a large Hispanic man outside
> the glass doors on my patio, holding a big limestone rock from our yard.
> The previous owners used limestone for landscaping but there's some
> still just laying around loose and he'd taken one.
> He walks off calmly with the rock while I wonder what the HELL some
> guy wants with a rock, but I'm not about to holler after him because,
> hey, he's got a big ****ing rock. Freaked, I called my husband, who
> said he'd come home from work.
> At first I didn't call the police but then it hit me -- the guy was
> going to bash in our glass sliding doors and ****ing ROB us. Thanks to
> sheer coincidence, the curtain was open because of the smell. He must
> have seen me inside and left when he realized the house wasn't empty.
> So I called the police. They're scheduling extra patrols around here
> because of it. The officer looked at me like an idiot when I asked why
> he thought the guy would steal a rock. Uh, to break a window, lady,
> that's why.
> We were planning on having a porch built for security so I guess we'd
> better get that done ASAP. The neighbor has a dog that barks and we've
> got a bright motion sensitive security light, plus we're picking up all
> those loose rocks in the yard, so I think we're okay for now, but I'm so
> freaked.

Those are good countermeasures, except for the rock thing. They
can bring those with them.

Get a gun and learn to how properly store and use it, if you
don't already know. You were lucky this time.

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Reg