…so let’s call the po po!
So brief update: Since March of this year I’ve relocated from OC to near San Fransisco to be in the same town as my beloved, her hometown of Pleasanton. After a number of seemingly random things I’m living in Jessica’s folk’s newest house up at a country club and she AND her folks have moved in until her new place is finished being remodeled.
Fast forward to now: at 2:30 am I hear car door slamming (strange time of night for this neighborhood) and rush to the door (without shoes OR a weapon…strange for me) only to peer out the window and see a running car waiting on the street with lights on and the light of a flashlight roaming around the cars parked at the house across the street. The beanied caucasian late-teen/early-twentysomething male makes his way across the street my way to the house next door. I imagine getting shot but proceed to unlock the door and turn the lights on, yelling, “HEY!” and stepping outside toward the street only to see the fella run downhill and the car pull forward after him. I run out, barefooted and get a license plate (although I think I may have been wrong about the last three numbers) and the culprits get away. Meanwhile I have awoken the household and my girlfriend and her father have come out of their subsequent rooms and proceed to ask me what happened. I stammered what I saw and immediately go to my room to write the plate numbers down and dial 911. I tell the dispatcher from the Sherrif’s Dept. what I saw and heard and finally went for a knife and flashlight to check the house for anyone who may have been left behind. Of course there was no one and the night suddenly slowed down from its strange and sudden excitement. Later another car arrives and I rush out again only to find two Sherrifs and tell them what little I told the dispatch.
Now it’s just about 4 am and I’m finally going to try to get some sleep. But I’m not taking my shoes off. Not tonight at least.
Certainly odd and scary. It just had to be the night before I go back to major work…geez, timing here people!!