Antici....PAYshun
Aug. 21st, 2008 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivo(As Frank N Furter put it...)
So it's supposed to rain. It's been threatening since mid morning in varying degrees, sometimes very threatening indeed, as in dark enough to need headlights. Yet no rain and no thunder, or at least not enough to take note of. There's a deliciously cool breeze at the moment, and I opened many windows. I was sitting at my desk an hour or so ago when a door in the house slammed loudly, setting the dogs to barking and my heart a-pounding. Of course the wind had just caught it, but when you think you're alone in a dark house and a noise that loud suddenly impinges on the quiet...
Doesn't help that coworkers were telling this morning about having their house burglarized, in the middle of the day, not far from here and in an equally rural area. She arrived home from a trip to the store to see a strange car in the drive right in front of the garage. Fortunately, concluded that something was amiss, and backed out of the driveway and parked on the road where she could see the house, then pressed her garage door opener to open and close the door. Sure enough, the thief emerged in a hurry, not carrying much that she could see, got in the car and tore out of the driveway as fast as he could go. So fast she didn't get his license plate number, alas. Turned out he had broken a small window next to the door, reached in and unlocked it, letting himself in. Walked right past many real valuables until he found the bedroom, where he grabbed her jewelry from the box and one of her husband's socks, presumably to carry the jewels in. Said jewels were of limited value, but had sentimental connections and will be missed. Thief will not get much for them. She said her few expensive pieces were hidden elsewhere. He then took the forks off the sideboard in the dining room, and must have been interrupted at that point because he dropped one in the driveway as he was fleeing. The forks were stainless flatware, and he'll find out they are neither silver nor pawnable for anything at all. One stupid thief, and perhaps an amateur. However, the sheriff's deputy said there have been a rash of such breakins with similar inept results this summer. The economy? The price of fuel? An increase in drug addiction? Probably all three. She said they went to turn on the ball game in the kitchen yesterday and realized the thief had taken their kitchen radio. It was a cheap, battery powered portable, of no value whatsoever.
Alone with the dogs (well, and the horses and sheep but they're all out in the barns) and though I have much to do, I'm not getting it done. Guess I should go to sleep and try in the morning.
So it's supposed to rain. It's been threatening since mid morning in varying degrees, sometimes very threatening indeed, as in dark enough to need headlights. Yet no rain and no thunder, or at least not enough to take note of. There's a deliciously cool breeze at the moment, and I opened many windows. I was sitting at my desk an hour or so ago when a door in the house slammed loudly, setting the dogs to barking and my heart a-pounding. Of course the wind had just caught it, but when you think you're alone in a dark house and a noise that loud suddenly impinges on the quiet...
Doesn't help that coworkers were telling this morning about having their house burglarized, in the middle of the day, not far from here and in an equally rural area. She arrived home from a trip to the store to see a strange car in the drive right in front of the garage. Fortunately, concluded that something was amiss, and backed out of the driveway and parked on the road where she could see the house, then pressed her garage door opener to open and close the door. Sure enough, the thief emerged in a hurry, not carrying much that she could see, got in the car and tore out of the driveway as fast as he could go. So fast she didn't get his license plate number, alas. Turned out he had broken a small window next to the door, reached in and unlocked it, letting himself in. Walked right past many real valuables until he found the bedroom, where he grabbed her jewelry from the box and one of her husband's socks, presumably to carry the jewels in. Said jewels were of limited value, but had sentimental connections and will be missed. Thief will not get much for them. She said her few expensive pieces were hidden elsewhere. He then took the forks off the sideboard in the dining room, and must have been interrupted at that point because he dropped one in the driveway as he was fleeing. The forks were stainless flatware, and he'll find out they are neither silver nor pawnable for anything at all. One stupid thief, and perhaps an amateur. However, the sheriff's deputy said there have been a rash of such breakins with similar inept results this summer. The economy? The price of fuel? An increase in drug addiction? Probably all three. She said they went to turn on the ball game in the kitchen yesterday and realized the thief had taken their kitchen radio. It was a cheap, battery powered portable, of no value whatsoever.
Alone with the dogs (well, and the horses and sheep but they're all out in the barns) and though I have much to do, I'm not getting it done. Guess I should go to sleep and try in the morning.
