YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN THE "HOOD" WHEN....
You know you live in the hood when....you wake up to some drunk guy trying to break into your house @ 1 am and you and your son are sound asleep. Yeah welcome to the ghetto, last nite the Demon Dog Josie woke me up with her incessant barking. When my yelling at her to shut up didn't work, I got up to investigate. The motion censored porch lite went on and I thought I saw someone walking off my porch. So the smart person I am, I WALK OUTSIDE and see the gate is open and shut it. Meanwhile, Josie takes off in a dead run around the back of the house. I go back inside and since I SLEEP WITH ME BEDROOM WINDOW OPEN (not anymore thanks to last nite but...) I look out and see a man trying to get in my back garage door. It was so dark, I thought maybe it was my ex or my brother so I YELL "What the hell are you doing?!" He turns toward me and looks around and then tries to hides along the wall of my house....never answering me. He is swaying so I know he is drunk. I stumble in the dark to get the phone and sneak to the bathroom to call 911. I kid you not, it was like in the movies:
Operator: 911, what is your emergency?
Me: I think a man is trying to break into my house.
O: What makes you think that?
Me : WTF!!!!! Ummm cause I can see him trying to open my back door (stupid lady)
O: Address and please stay on the line until officers get there.
Me: whimpering my answers, "Okay!"
O: Is he still there
Me: you want me to (gulp) look?! Ummm okay (sneaking into bedroom and then sneaking back to bathroom) Yes he is trying to hide against the wall still!
Meanwhile Josie is running in circles around the house AND NEVER SEES THE GUY!!! I need a new watch dog. Well Tribal officers arrive in about 10 minutes (which is lightning fast for them but feels like an eternity). They sneak around back and shine huge flashlites at the guy, scale my fence and then yell at the guy to stay where he is. (I tell the operator that they have caught him and she hangs up...she is now my new best friend...and I hang up with her) The guy starts stumbling towards the officer and he yells for him to stop, the other officer tells officer #1 to "Taze Him" Officer #2 " I don't have my Taser" I am thinking WTF!!!!!!!! Anyway they slam him to the ground in my yard and handcuff him.
Then there is a knock on my door from the officer he tells me that the guy is super drunk. He tells me the guy's name and asks if I know who he is. I say yes. He says "you know he was just released from prison for rape., right?" I stammer..."Yes, and he lives like two houses away from me. Do you think he was so drunk he thought he was at his own house (I was hoping this was the case)" Officer says " I don't know, he won't talk." So they arrested him and I start bawling, the officer tells me to lock all my windows and then I will feel more safe. I am thinking is there a "feeling safe" when you live in the hood?
Needless to say I didn't sleep after 1am and am running on empty. Then I get to work and find out that due to budget cuts, my job is being cut down to 3.5 days a week starting next school year. So I am scrambling trying to apply for part time work so I can still have summers and holidays off. SO prayers would be appreciated! Also more drama with psycho mom and my son but this post is too long as it is so it will have to wait until Mon.!
Operator: 911, what is your emergency?
Me: I think a man is trying to break into my house.
O: What makes you think that?
Me : WTF!!!!! Ummm cause I can see him trying to open my back door (stupid lady)
O: Address and please stay on the line until officers get there.
Me: whimpering my answers, "Okay!"
O: Is he still there
Me: you want me to (gulp) look?! Ummm okay (sneaking into bedroom and then sneaking back to bathroom) Yes he is trying to hide against the wall still!
Meanwhile Josie is running in circles around the house AND NEVER SEES THE GUY!!! I need a new watch dog. Well Tribal officers arrive in about 10 minutes (which is lightning fast for them but feels like an eternity). They sneak around back and shine huge flashlites at the guy, scale my fence and then yell at the guy to stay where he is. (I tell the operator that they have caught him and she hangs up...she is now my new best friend...and I hang up with her) The guy starts stumbling towards the officer and he yells for him to stop, the other officer tells officer #1 to "Taze Him" Officer #2 " I don't have my Taser" I am thinking WTF!!!!!!!! Anyway they slam him to the ground in my yard and handcuff him.
Then there is a knock on my door from the officer he tells me that the guy is super drunk. He tells me the guy's name and asks if I know who he is. I say yes. He says "you know he was just released from prison for rape., right?" I stammer..."Yes, and he lives like two houses away from me. Do you think he was so drunk he thought he was at his own house (I was hoping this was the case)" Officer says " I don't know, he won't talk." So they arrested him and I start bawling, the officer tells me to lock all my windows and then I will feel more safe. I am thinking is there a "feeling safe" when you live in the hood?
Needless to say I didn't sleep after 1am and am running on empty. Then I get to work and find out that due to budget cuts, my job is being cut down to 3.5 days a week starting next school year. So I am scrambling trying to apply for part time work so I can still have summers and holidays off. SO prayers would be appreciated! Also more drama with psycho mom and my son but this post is too long as it is so it will have to wait until Mon.!
