breaking and entering

[threeplusfire]

Alan woke me up at 1am Saturday, convinced that he heard someone trying to get into the house. I thought he must have heard a cat, and was over-reacting because he hadn't been sleeping well and wasn't feeling so good.

Today, I'm doing some laundry here at the apartment laundromat because my mother has the flu. I stood in the grass and looked at our windows. There are some footprints in the mud under our bedroom window, and part of the weather stripping has been pried up as if someone was trying to find a way to the latch. The weather stripping for one of the living room windows was laying in the mud, and had been pulled right off. I checked the second window, and part of the weather stripping had been pried off there as well.

Someone did try to break into the house.

I am completely freaked out, after the fact. I'm a bit mortified that I didn't take Alan more seriously the other night but I really did think he was just startled by a cat outside or something.

I wonder if I should talk to the office about having the weather stripping repaired. I haven't the faintest idea how to make the windows more safe. We keep the curtains and blinds down almost all the time.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Without psychic powers, there is no way for me to know the intentions of the person breaking into my home, so I think it's impossible to answer your question. We can construct nice theorectical answers that won't be applicable in the moment. When someone busts in the window I'm not going to ponder their intentions.

I would rather live with the knowledge that I took someone's life in defense of my family than live with the knowledge that I failed to protect my family and their lives.