Well the day just took an interesting turn. I was about to whine about a recently-experienced poor standard of customer service.. but this is far more juicy. My neighbour’s son, who now owns the house, and who is a nice young guy, late twenties. He came around the house. I answered the door. He looked all shaken up and asked if my dad was around. I got my dad, they had a big conversation. I went up to my room thinking it was nothing. Then I went downstairs to put some music on the CD player and my dad came in all like, “His house got robbed last night.”

I know. Shock. But what makes it more oh jebus is the fact that around 2 a.m. that night (and his house is right next to ours, just over our boundary at the top of the garden) our dogs were barking like crazy last night. It woke me up, and I was like “uggghhgehg” and just fell back asleep. Apparently dad got out of bed, and went outside to see what was up and let one of the dogs off and the dog ran up to the top of the garden still barking and running in circles wanting to get over the boundary… which dad thought was weird. He called her back, she was still restless but dad thought there was nothing in our garden so whatever.

So obviously that’s what was upsetting the dog. They took tv sets… computers… general expensive stuff. He was upset over it. And weird stuff has been happening recently, last night he got robbed… the night before at 2 a.m. the dogs were barking as well, and our other neighbour’s dog Molly was sounding off too. And then yesterday a man in a car (who dad said he recognised as a man who lived around here so it’s not too suspicious, but I’m still not trusting it) came up our driveway and was all “Hey, I’ve lost a cow, I was wondering if you’ve seen it.” to my dad. And my dad’s all, “Do I look like I’m a farmer?” Which is weird because we can’t even SEE cow fields from our house. We’re surrounded by trees and a forest to the back. And what’s MORE weird is that who would see a cow and go “Oh, that belongs to X”. All cows look the same. So a lost cow, who would recognise it from any other you might see? So why come up my goddamn drive asking?

So! The neighbourhood is all on watch, which is rather fun. Our gate is padlocked is staying padlocked for a while, along with the garage and shed.  I just think how bad it’d feel to get robbed, so it’s better not to take a chance. So while dad was off spreading the word, I went around the house looking for heavy objects. All I’m saying is I’m keeping my softball bat in my room at night. Along with a frying pan. It’s scary that it happened to the house right next to ours. Which is too close for comfort.

It’s silly, but it’s been weird around here the last few nights and now this has happened. So it’s a good thing to be prepared, just in case the necessary occurs.