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10 Things I Thought About After Having #ShotsFired
I mean ^that^ literally... shots were fired at my house. At least TWO. Bullet1 made it inside the house (thru the front glass screen door and storm door, thru a wall, and lodged into the second wall somewhere). Police found Bullet2 in the lawn; it had ricocheted off the front porch steps. No one was hurt. This happened in 2017, but the following are the 10 thoughts that came to mind following the horror...
1. Umm, excuse me, Mr. (or Mrs.) Shooter, but.... It's one thing to be mean and shoot up my house... but please dont be so rude as to not leave me a note about why u shot. Nobody has to be THAT evil. Gimme the courtesy of tellin me what's goin.
A. Do you want me and my family out of the neighborhood?
B Was that a gang initiation act?
C. Are you just sinister and want to hurt someone?
D. Was it a warning that I need to cut my grass more?
*Along with your bullet(s), be nice and drop a sticky note in the mailbox. Thanks.
2. During screen door glass cleanup, I saw a dead 'foreign' bug in the pile of glass. I smiled! (Not bcuz of the bug's painful death)...
I smiled bcuz the story in my mind was... This bug had been waiting to get inside my house and attack me, but couldn't find a way in. Then finally a gunshot blew a hole just big enough for the insect to fly, hop or crawl in. And so as it tried to go through the cracked screen door, suddenly the screen shattered so the glass collapsed and killed the bug. So I feel like Fate was just looking out for me.
Fate: 1
Bug: 0
3. Ima leave the broken glass piled up on the porch in front of the door. It could be a crime deterrent. Cuz it would make a lot of noise tryna walk over all that glass to break in.
Also, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons might leave me alone now.
4. Ooooooo..... what if the shooter saw that 'foreign' bug and wanted to protect me, so he/she fired at the bug? Hmm.. I wouldnt even be mad at that. #TeamFraidOfBugs
5. Mannn, I have a swing hanging from the front yard tree. A SWING, my dude! A 'Daddy-can-you-push-me' swing!! Why would you shoot at a house that has a swing out front!!? That should be a thug rule.
6. My lack of knowledge for cars, yard work, and house work already reduces my MAN-points to a low range. But... trying to take off the screen door might subtract man-points to the point that I could grow breasts.
I mistakenly spent time manually (no drill) unscrewing 7 unnecessary screws before I realized they had nothing to do with taking the screen door off. So, I screwed them back in. Then I unscrewed the other 8 nails that were necessary. At that point, I attempted to pull the door off to no avail. Then I realized, that the first 7 nails (that I had unscrewed and then replaced) were ACTUALLY NECESSARY so I had to unscrew them all over!! I mean... Geez Louise w/Grilled Cheese Homie Please.
Bout to find me a snap/button screen door. Or velcrow.
7. Neighbors have told me about my backyard grass being too high. I've had neighbors express concern after noticing my front door was closed for a few days in a row (because as they did their morning walks, they usually saw my front door open). One evening, a neighbor called to let me know that my garage door had been open all day. BUT, somehow, on the night at least two shots were fired at my house... NOBODY heard anything, saw anything, or noticed anything suspicious. Hmm.
8. Looked up new front exterior doors. And oh man... there are SOOO many different types & styles. It's ridiculous! I tried a ton of different door type search filters bcuz I was looking for a door that had a peep hole. After almost an hour of searching, and getting frustrated that no door at Lowes or Home Depot had peep holes in them.... I searched specifically for "doors with peep holes" and I came to learn that the 'peep hole' device is sold separately and installed into the door.
Ahhhhh, that does make sense.
9. Our home security system was already sufficient. But, now we are adding more cameras, and buying more guns. I mean, more guns wont prevent random shots at the house, but it just feels like the right move.
10. Oh how I praise you, God. Thank You! Thank You. Thank You. .... I wasnt home when it happened. Wife wasnt home when it happened. Pops was home but sound asleep. My Wife had several opportunities to come home early that day, but something random kept coming up that delayed her. Who knows what would have happened had she been home?! If the shots didnt physically harm her, I cant imagine what kind of emotional toll it would have taken on her. And my Dad... oh man! Glad he wasnt walking around. Also glad the shot wasnt 20 feet to the left, because that's where my Dad was sleeping and that woulda been a wrap for him! And I know those things werent magic. God, I know You had Your hands all in it! I cant Praise You and Thank You enough for how You keep and protect us. Your Mercy. Your Grace. My God, Thank You!