Re: otp - w0w! lotta racket around here!


"Alice Faber" <afaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <hbg13l$cb3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"dhuit" <threecedars@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

n their consciences.

i grew up mainly in large metro/cosmopolitan areas -- new york city, san
francisco, hartford . . . -- and my folks' residences (even when we moved
to
suburbia in my late teens) always had a bazillion locks, chains and bars
on
the doors and windows. i soooo hated that feeling of being "monastically"
secluded or "imprisoned" LOL ("prison" was my older sister's word for it
and
it always made me laugh hearing her say it.). and i hated that sense of
not
trusting the rest of world outside (as if the whole outside world was bad
and as if we were not part of something larger than the inside of our
apartment or our core family.). made me feel like we didn't belong and
that
i didn't belong.

since butch passed away, i do lock up, when i remember to (once in a rare
while i forget to.) just before going to bed.

I'm with you. I try to remember to lock up at night, but sometimes
forget. Once, when I had the front door open in the evening, for the
cross-ventilation, I forgot to close it when I went to bed. Nothing
happened. On the other hand, my house was once broken into when I was
out. The door was locked, but someone just forced the door open; the
replacement has a much stronger frame. Some neighbors and colleagues
thought I should have gotten a security service, but I'm not sure how
that would have protected me. Previous owners had one, and the stickers
and wires were still there, so if presence of a security system would
have been a deterrent, that deterrent was there. And, would a security
service have called the police quickly enough to actually apprehend
people who seem to have been in the house for all of five minute? I
rather doubt it.

***bummer about having your home violated like that, sweetie.

apparently, i once intruded on a robbery/burglary in progress of one of my
closest friend's home (across the freeway from me), while she and her family
were out. she does have an alarm system. front door was wide open and odd
things were stacked/piled in the entryway, which seemed strange to me. so,
i hollared out her name several times and didn't just walk in, the normal
way she and i are both accustomed to at each other's homes. no answer, and
i heard no life sounds. so i stood there for a few minutes debating with
myself about just what was the situation. decided that the door must have
simply blown open while they were gone. i closed the door, left her a note
about the door being wide open and closing it for her and went back to my
car. sat there for a short while, thinking about it, and nobody showed up,
cops nor anyone, and i saw nobody leave (robbers probably left out her
backyard door -- that i couldn't see from the driveway -- when they heard
me.). and i drove away.

she called me that night about it. i was shocked she had been robbed!
apparently the robbers just took only the small stuff they could flee with
when they heard me. the bigger stuff, like guns, tvs, computers and stuff
like that they left piled in the entryway they didn't get. still, it's
devastating to have one's home violated and things gone through and taken.
of course, she was glad that i didn't just walk in. i would never walk
into someone else's home when they were not there (not unless she gave me
the key to do that, like she does for a specific reason -- like helping her
prep for a party while she was picking up a couple of things she forgot for
the party.).

kate
--
"[xxx] has very definite opinions, and does not suffer fools lightly.
This, apparently, upsets the fools."
---BB cuts to the pith of a flame-fest


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