Over the years I have had a couple times when I have had to check the house with my gun. I can pretty much bet that my wife is going to kind of loosely follow me around while I check. This always irritates me because I don't want to keep running across her when I am checking the house LOL
About 6 weeks ago I we were in our bedroom at 2:30 A.M. She was asleep and I was watching the Hurt Locker on demand. Two people came to my front door and pounded on the door. It didn't at all sound like pounding, it sounding like someone was coming through the door!
I have had times when you hear a certain noise and you think "what was that", "should I get my gun". But not this time. There was absolutely no doubt something was coming through the front door. We have a glass front door, so when you pound on that thing it makes a racket.
So I was up and without question I grabbed my gun. I went into the hall and went down the hall to the front door. I checked around the corner to see if there was anything wrong with the door or if there was anyone there. There wasn't so I got into the kitchen and turned out the small lamp in there to black out the house. I wanted to get a look outside to see what I was dealing with. As I am coming back through the house there is my wife
(kidding). I said "please check the kids and then stay back there where I don't have to think about where you are".
So now I find a flashlight and go outside. No one around but it has snowed a very thin layer outside. I was able to perfectly see both sets of foot prints. One was a construction boot and adult sized. The other set was a smaller tennis shoe like a girl. I was able to follow the prints down my walk and driveway. I continued a half mile down the road to see where they came from. Then I came back and followed the prints in my truck straight to where they lived. The prints went right up their driveway and did not return.
At this point I chalked it up to mischief and let it go. I don't know these people. We live in a rural area and they live about a mile away. So I looked up their address on the internet and found out who lives there. But I decided to let it go. I checked around my house and they never went anywhere else in the yard they never went to the windows, garage, cars or any other doors. Had they done any of that then I would have called the police.
Long story but I just hate when my wife loosely follows me and kind of startles me around a corner here and there.
About 6 weeks ago I we were in our bedroom at 2:30 A.M. She was asleep and I was watching the Hurt Locker on demand. Two people came to my front door and pounded on the door. It didn't at all sound like pounding, it sounding like someone was coming through the door!
I have had times when you hear a certain noise and you think "what was that", "should I get my gun". But not this time. There was absolutely no doubt something was coming through the front door. We have a glass front door, so when you pound on that thing it makes a racket.
So I was up and without question I grabbed my gun. I went into the hall and went down the hall to the front door. I checked around the corner to see if there was anything wrong with the door or if there was anyone there. There wasn't so I got into the kitchen and turned out the small lamp in there to black out the house. I wanted to get a look outside to see what I was dealing with. As I am coming back through the house there is my wife
(kidding). I said "please check the kids and then stay back there where I don't have to think about where you are".So now I find a flashlight and go outside. No one around but it has snowed a very thin layer outside. I was able to perfectly see both sets of foot prints. One was a construction boot and adult sized. The other set was a smaller tennis shoe like a girl. I was able to follow the prints down my walk and driveway. I continued a half mile down the road to see where they came from. Then I came back and followed the prints in my truck straight to where they lived. The prints went right up their driveway and did not return.
At this point I chalked it up to mischief and let it go. I don't know these people. We live in a rural area and they live about a mile away. So I looked up their address on the internet and found out who lives there. But I decided to let it go. I checked around my house and they never went anywhere else in the yard they never went to the windows, garage, cars or any other doors. Had they done any of that then I would have called the police.
Long story but I just hate when my wife loosely follows me and kind of startles me around a corner here and there.
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