Got up this morning around 430 in a dark house. Turned on lights as I make my way to the kitchen, make a fancy coffee dtink, turn off all lights but my chair lamp, and start reading a book. At about 615 I glance towards the windows on the sides of the front door and see hazard lights flashing. Now I live at the end of a long driveway . You don't get to my house by accident. The house is not visible from the road and can not be seen by any of my "neighbors ". The drive is gravel and I hear people when they approach as it's dead quiet here, especially at 0600. My first thought is well they aren't hiding. My second thought is fed ex had an overnight air package coming but this is surely way too early for that. I grab the pistol off my end table and walk to the door, I flip on the front door lights and look outside to see it's my own car.
Then I make my first mistake due , I am sure, to the adrenaline. I go back to the bedroom and retrieve my car keys and I press the unlock button. This now means I have no way of telling if I locked the car or not. Then I make my second mistake, instead of swapping out the pistol in my hand for the bedside one with the guide rod laser and mounted light, I go outside with the one in my hand. I look around and seeing nothing, I open the car door and find that the hazard flasher had been physically pushed so I turn it off. I then realize I my second mistake so I go back inside and swap to the bedside pistol and head outside, walking the house perimeter, finding nothing. Returning to the car, I find nothing missing, ham radio, two radar detectors, a scanner all still there. The only conclusion I can draw at this point is when we got home last night, the wife and I both walked past the front of the car and never saw the flashers. Then we sat in the same chair I am sitting in now and never saw the flashers even after dark. Then my wife went to bed turning off all the lights, and never saw the flashers, OR there is some critter in the car somehow that depressed the hazard button this morning.
As I typed this, I realized my third mistake. ... I never turned on the security lights which light the house up like daytime, including those that are 25 yards away from the house perimeter.
Learn from my mistakes.
And did I make a 4th mistake by grabbing the bedside pistol for my perimeter check? I could have just as easily grabbed a rifle which is equipped with a flashlight that I also keep around for self defense.
Then I make my first mistake due , I am sure, to the adrenaline. I go back to the bedroom and retrieve my car keys and I press the unlock button. This now means I have no way of telling if I locked the car or not. Then I make my second mistake, instead of swapping out the pistol in my hand for the bedside one with the guide rod laser and mounted light, I go outside with the one in my hand. I look around and seeing nothing, I open the car door and find that the hazard flasher had been physically pushed so I turn it off. I then realize I my second mistake so I go back inside and swap to the bedside pistol and head outside, walking the house perimeter, finding nothing. Returning to the car, I find nothing missing, ham radio, two radar detectors, a scanner all still there. The only conclusion I can draw at this point is when we got home last night, the wife and I both walked past the front of the car and never saw the flashers. Then we sat in the same chair I am sitting in now and never saw the flashers even after dark. Then my wife went to bed turning off all the lights, and never saw the flashers, OR there is some critter in the car somehow that depressed the hazard button this morning.
As I typed this, I realized my third mistake. ... I never turned on the security lights which light the house up like daytime, including those that are 25 yards away from the house perimeter.
Learn from my mistakes.
And did I make a 4th mistake by grabbing the bedside pistol for my perimeter check? I could have just as easily grabbed a rifle which is equipped with a flashlight that I also keep around for self defense.
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