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.
>
> Stacia

Yikes! I'd be freaked out too. What a fool the cop was thinking you
were a loon reporting someone for stealing a rock, did she miss the day
at the academy when they talked about B&E tools? I'm glad that you
were airing the stock smell out of the house, a robbery would be bad
enough, but one when you are home ****ing horrific. Glad that you are
safe Stacia.

I've been there with the whole being robbed nightmare, both at home and
at the lake house. I can only say that I'm thankful that both places
were robbed by older teenagers, who weren't sophisticated burglars, and
thought that the best things to steal were what they could use and
easily carry without benefit of a vehicle. We only lost: beer out of
the fridge, mostly empty fifths, toilet paper (yep that's right), a
cordless phone, most of my costume jewelry and a couple of small TVs.
Thankfully we have a good safe (can't cart that sucker out with a hand
truck) and kept small valuables in that, otherwise I'm sure my jewelry
would have been gone too. With the home robbery I thought my husband
had been lazy and not put more beer in the fridge until I discovered
the missing junk jewelry.

Jessica