"Sensual"...You forgot "sensual". "Tender-Loving sensual douche."
I think a full bred German Shepard (I could call him LAW) or Rottweiler (JUNKYARD!!) would fill the role nicely, but I couldn't have a dog that big, there isn't enough room in our little house. I'll have to settle for my little fluffy white dog, she barks a lot, but cowers pretty easily. We've taken to adding some locks, installing some more locks, and reinforcing a few windows. Our house wouldn't be easy to get into without making a lot of noise, and our neighborhood is very close, almost claustrophobic, so the chances of someone hearing something is pretty good. Thanks for the comment, Prep Bud!!
Thanks G! That's how I look at it. I've gotten a lot of good responses from various places I linked this, and no one has a "right" answer. I just have to be prepared, vigilant, and smart. I gotta say, my temper might send that last one out the window if the time comes.
I don't know any more. I think my fears are more reasonable and immediate than his.
Thanks man. It hit really close to home this week, when my wife came home and told me about her coworker being hit in a Home Invasion, and they live about 8 blocks from us. I went into total paranoid, violent survival mode, I was shaking at the thought, especially now with the baby in the house. I looked up recent home Invasions in the area, and it is happening all around us, a pair or a group of youths, about 15 to 19, climbing into people's homes while they sleep and demanding drugs and money. They seem to be targeting known drug dealers, users, and the elderly, but it still flipped the switch in me, especially the report I read about a gunman holding a toddler hostage to get money.
I really want to buy a firearm, but there are a lot of valid concerns we both have about it, including the fact that neither of us have any gun experience. My wife was pretty dead set against the idea. Like I said, I don't blame her, but that is the next step if something does happen close to home. That, or moving.
The people working at my local McDonald's are definitely less than human.
I remember that episode! He had a deep fryer, I didn't think about one if those. I guess I shouldn't be surprised other states have drive-thru liquor stores, the laws in Pennsylvania about beer and liquor are pretty restrictive.
We have an awesome chain of convenience stores here in the Pa area called Wawa. they have great food, i WISH they would have drive thrus!!!
I understand where you are coming from. My mom passed away seven years ago, and it was somewhat sudden. I say somewhat because for 6 months she was back and forth with her doctor over back pain, and shoulder pain, where one visit led to another then some advil then a nerve specialist then finally an MRI that showed it was a giant tumor sitting on a nerve in her back. the cancer started in her lungs. By the time she got an appointment with a surgeon, the cancer had metastasized, and was in her bones, in her blood. She went in for chemo and died three days later. A week before she was driving to the grocery store to pick up milk.
On our refrigerator, I still have a letter from a nerve specialist that came to the house the day we buried her saying she had a pinched nerve and needed to be put on muscle relaxers. I still have a lot of blame built up over all that.
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