Strange night last night...

[Fuddy1952]

Your neighbor is very lucky to have you so close by !

KC

Thanks so much.
Why these nice people would associate with my wife & I is the biggest mystery of all.
Seriously we do have good trustworthy neighbors.

 

[caver]

With the subject line I thought the story was going to start with Dear Penthouse

 

[Peter 315]

With the subject line I thought the story was going to start with Dear Penthouse

:thumbsup:

 

[Dftodd]

Only once in all my time out here ( 38+ ) years did I answer my door holding my shotgun. It was dark outside > knock on the door > I asked-"who is it" > no response, but they knocked a second time. I grabbed the shotgun, flipped on the porch light, cracked the door. It was a young fellow and, as I found out, his wife. They said they were lost. Man were they EVER lost. Off the county - one mile down my gravel driveway.

So I invited them in and got them oriented and back on their way. I wasn't too concerned about them being robbers - Wyoming license plates and two young kids in their car.

Otherwise - raccoons having a knock down brawl on my front porch will bring you out of a good sleep. That's happened several times. And a lonely coyote howling right out in the front yard will do the same.

Years ago I was watching TV and the door bell rang. I went and looked out the peep hole and didn't see anything.

Went and sat back down. Immediately upon sitting the door bell rang again. I looked out the peep hole. And didn't see anything again. So I went to the kitchen window and looked to see if I could see someone standing off to the side. No one was there.

Went and sat back down and the bloody door bell rang again.

At this point I'm mad. Grab the ball bat that was stored in the coat closet, ripped open the door, starting to cuss, and ready to whoop some booty

At that point I came up speechless and started laughing my butt off. Here's my neighbors 2yo houdini of a son standing in the doorway in his diaper.

Only thing he would say was "Tasha" which is the name of my 5yo pit bull that absolutely loved kids.

The boy snuck out to come play with my dog.

Well Tasha gave him some kisses real quick, then I scooped him up and took him back home

Met the neighbor just as she was coming around the side of my garage with one of the twin boys in her arms. I had the other one.

The boys would decide they wanted to go visit the neighbors and let themselves out of the house. 1 would always head for the elderly couples house on the east side of their place, and the other always headed west to my house.

They had to install a slide latch on the top of the doors, chain up any ladders and step stools, and put bells on their clothing to keep those toddlers from going on a walk about

 

[Fuddy1952]

All I can say is never ever read replies with a mouthful of liquid

 

[Fuddy1952]

We did have something happen not long after moving here 40 years ago. About 2am we're asleep upstairs (summer, window open) I hear gravel crunching sound...look out and way at end of our driveway I could make out a car parked there. So I grab my S&W .44 magnum. I'm watching a few minutes and they're parked not far from a different friend/neighbor's house. I could barely tell it looked like a few people in car, dome light on. Finally I thought what the heck and peeled one off over the car.
Everyone knows how loud a .44 is, especially echoing out a room. So it was "BOOM"...then I hear POW-POW-POW-POW-POW rapid fire.
The car disappeared!
The next day I was talking to that neighbor and he was at his window with his M1 and a 30 round clip. As soon as I fired he walked a bullet trail over to them.
We never knew who it was or kind of car except it was posi-traction...two rubber lines all the way down the road.
I'm sure it was guys stopping to take a wizz.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
And our new President would be proud of you... although he would rather that you used a 12 guage.

I had a strange one a couple of months ago, myself. My nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away and my place sets about 250 feet back from the road. I generally leave the keys in my truck especially in winter; but since both pickups now have remote locks, the last thing that I do before going to bed is hit the lock button.
One morning I unlocked the truck, then walked out to get an armload of kindling. All of a sudden I heard a radio going... WTF? I almost headed back inside to get something except that it seemed to be coming from my truck... and if anybody was in that before I unlocked it, the alarm would have gone off. It turns out I had an electrical problem and when I unlocked the door the radio started playing... talk about a way to wake up!!!!

 

[Fuddy1952]

Years ago we had this great tom cat Reggie.
He was always doing the most amazing things. I got a new van and since we live in the country I left keys in it, window down.
I look out one night all lights were on it, horn blowing, etc. I run down and there's Reggie sitting in drivers seat, paws on steering wheel. The van had paddle switches and he had pushed them all.

 

[CobyRupert]

Strange.
Guy who is into guns and concerned about home invasion, keeps a loaded sawed-off next to the bed. Happens to have a need for said gun on the exact same night he’s showing off the gun that he keeps loaded for home invasions.
...one of them self-fulfilling prophecies?
Similar to those firemen who...
well, maybe not, I’ve been known to be a bit cynical and not a great believer in coincidences.

 

[lilranch2001]

After what has happened in TN on Christmas, anything is possible