I’ve mentioned our elderly neighbor before. Well…I think he’s getting worse. The other week he called over to our house and was concerned because he’d been seeing a man hanging out in his shed at night. He talked about not wanting to shoot him because he knew he’d get in trouble but we’d better be careful. It kind of scared me a little and I started locking my doors after dark. Normally, I wait until when I go to sleep to do that. He complained a few times again about it but every time he said he saw someone, no one could see anybody. We started to get a bit suspicious on what he was seeing.
The other day he had two county officers over at the house and I could see him pointing to his backyard. I’m sure he had seen someone again and had called the police.
Yesterday I got a phone call from his daughter about lunchtime who we know as well and she asked if I could see someone in his backyard. He said someone was sitting in his garden. I peek out my window and see nothing. I go outside to get a better look and nothing. His daughter says ok. They’ll probably ride by just to make sure everything is ok.
Last night Scott goes to talk to him and he has put an envelope on a chair held down by rocks for the guy to read. He also has his son in law install motion lights in his backyard. He tells Scott the guy doesn’t take anything and he just needs somewhere to stay. Apparently he used to stay in the neighbor’s shed but it started to leak water so now he uses his. He says he waves to him at night from his bedroom window and he waves back.
I feel bad for the guy. His family agrees he’s losing it a bit. We have yet to see anyone and there are no footprints or anything disturbed that would show he has had any visitors. It would be a little funny except that this guy is probably worrying himself to death over this and probably driving his wife crazy. But I have to admit it was a little shocking to receive this text from Scott today:
“He just told me he saw a guy giving another guy a BJ last night in his shed.”
Apparently he stopped Scott today and had forgotten he ever told Scott about any of this. He told him he had a guy that was hanging out in his shed lately and last night 5 guys show up with him and that had happened. He wants Scott to come by tonight when he’s working.
Honestly I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at all that.
I don’t know what to say about that… poor guy. At least he has his family there to check on him.
Amanda’s last blog post..5.4 California Quake… WOO HOO!
You don’t keep your doors locked 24/7? Really? I can’t imagine that. But times they are a’changing my friend – given the rise of home invasions in our area you definitely need to think about keeping all doors locked all the time.
I suppose I’m used to doing that since I live with a husband who grew up in Queens – you just don’t keep doors unlocked EVER. In fact, we not only have them locked, but the deadbolts are locked as well.
Jaynee’s last blog post..So How About That Long Day, Huh?
Yeah, I grew up not only leaving doors unlocked but open..even when we left the house sometimes.
I grew up in a small town where we left the doors unlocked when we were home. But that was 25+ years ago. Here in my suburb home I keep the doors locked and deadbolted at all times, and we have dusk-to-dawn lights at all entrances. Does that really help? Prolly just makes it easier for people to smash in the glass (they can see what they’re doing) but it makes me feel better. I live in a neigborhood that thinks of itself as ‘exclusive’ (yeah, whatever) and they had a fit when walmart moved in front of our neighborhood saying how crime was going to go up. Well, it has gone up but i’m not sure you can blame walmart when just two blocks down are some very bad slums.
Lynellen’s last blog post..Found another Lynellen