So, my hubby works a 9-5 but I stay at home right now due to illness. We're moving in a week and I am so glad.
A few months ago, somebody unlocks the front door but we'd just installed a sliding bolt and it hits the bolt loudly multiple times. Whoever's on the other side is trying to get in bad. At the time, I figured it was my mother-in-law just trying to be nosy when she thought I wasn't home since she's our landlord here. We changed the knobs and added a dead-bolt to the back door which has the space for it because we didn't want to cause family drama over her inappropriate activities.
Around the same time, our neighbors add security "lights" but I figured it was because they don't like the fact that I'm taking dogs trespassing on our property and mauling/killing our animals to the county pound. Long story, I love dogs but this neighborhood is overrun with people that refuse to give their pets the most basic care and let them run loose to be run over or worse and is a well-known pet dumping ground for the nearby city.
A few weeks ago, a woman comes up to my door in the middle of the day, and starts pounding at the door and asking for Miss Salazar. Any Harry Potter fans would know where that name is from. However, Salazar is a real hispanic last name, although a rare one, so I let it go. I should mention that this is a poor white neighborhood and I'm the only Hispanic on the block, the woman looked surprised when I opened the door, and claimed to be looking for another address on the street LOUDLY. My address is plain for all to see so while I might grant she could have been suffering from some sort of deafness despite the fact that she responded to what I quietly said to her, what are the odds that she couldn't read the street numbers too? Mind, we only have one car in a car dependent community where usually both adults work so by all appearances the house would look unoccupied from the street. I was bothered by the incident for about a week before I forgot about it.
Then, I see a guy just park in front of the house across the street(which is for sale), and just jump the fence onto the property. I call the neighbor that's taking care of selling that property for the owner, he lives next door to the house, and he comes out and gets in an altercation with the guy. He later tells me that the guy went into open side-buildings that were used for storage but didn't have time to take anything and that the guy keeps calling his phone with death threats(neighbor's number is the number listed on the for sale sign).
Then the other day, I realized that my suspicion that someone has been opening and resealing our mail is a reality because they finally forgot to reseal an envelope(a government letter addressed to me ) and damaged my SIL's wedding invitation. This happened at the previous place that we lived at which we also rented from my mother-in-law so I figured it was a case of the nosy mother-in-law with too much time on her hands. Except, she would have no reason to open the wedding invitation to her own daughter's wedding(the steam from opening the envelope sealed the second small rsvp envelope inside) so I've finally learned the reason why all the neighbors have post office boxes.
Anyways, I thought that all those things were unrelated, as any reasonable person might, until today. It was around 7am, minutes after my husband left for work(so whoever it was knows when he leaves for work), and someone tries to come in the house through the front door but they can't get the lock open. My MIL knows we installed new knobs and she moved two hours away recently so it was definitely not her and she would just have parked in the driveway or the driveway to the house her nephew is working on next door. Whoever it was also knows that when the chickens are out in the yard, somebody's home to watch them because both times that someone tried to come in, my husband had forgotten to let them out when he left. He usually does it in case I fall asleep again as I've been prone to doing because of my physical ailment.
After today, I'll definitely be learning how to use our guns. I grew up in an pro gun-control household but I'm starting to see the other side of the argument with how slow the police response is around here, especially since there's often a train between us and the police station that could impede them from getting here in a dire emergency. I'd call the police but I just know from experience with another issue that if I don't know who the person is, even if I know what they look like, they won't bother to even file a report which they're supposed to do in this county for statistic and funding purposes. |
