The next decade....what's in store?

"Tief....tief!"

There was a prowler in our yard while I was in Mandeville. I was just hearing about it for the first time last night, when the alarm went off for no apparent reason.

The family was around the back in the den. My sister looked and saw a man walking past the windows. She thought at first it was my brother, because sometimes he comes around the back when he comes to visit. When she looked and saw that it wasn't she shouted "what you doing in here, what you doing?"

I don't get the impression that the man ran. Anyway, the security company was called and I hear they were here in a flash. The police was also called and arrived about 30 minutes later. The officers sat in the car across the road and shouted out my father's name and asked him if he had called the police. Pops shouted back and said yes he had called but he hardly thinks the crook would have been waiting for them!

It happened at something to 10. Now a few weeks before, the lady across the road up one, was held up at gunpoint at her gate when she came home around 9pm. She apparently owns a bakery. After that incident, I said to myself that we wouldnt have a problem like that, and in fact we've never had any incidents like that. Hah, was I wrong!

I also go out in the backyard sometimes late because I let the dog run around before putting her back in her kennel. What di hell would I do if I went outside and saw a man coming up the walkway? Crap in my pants probably.

So nowhere is safe. Nowhere. Not in Jamaica at least. I must get out of here.

Posted by yamfoot at March 24, 2005 08:10 AM