"Reg" > wrote in message
om...
> 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.
>
> --
> Reg

Get a gun? Right, that's the answer.

Elaine