What is proper etiquette on the golfcourse when you walk by a house
where someone is taking a swim? Just when I think my community can't possibly fall further back in time, they up and get puerile Victorian.
My husband and I left on vacation for a week and hired a young lady to watch the house and dog while we were gone. We were damn lucky. We have known her since she was a young kid and she and my daughter have become besties over the years. But the real fortunate break for us was that she had vet experience, which was critical since that was the only way that we would even consider leaving our ailing dog.
She had my permission to invite friends over, which I knew was important to her because she was moving on and leaving the State the day after we returned. So, for that week she enjoyed the property in a normal way, or what would be normal anywhere else. For example, she and her family and friends did an art project on the lawn one day and on the last night they were here, they had a small social out on the porch. It was Friday night, but lights were out by eleven.
She also enjoyed the pool, and this is where it gets cray-cray. When she steps in the pool, golfers show up along the property, seemingly out of no where. I checked this out to confirm it on the security cameras and I have to say that, although I have seen some inexplicable behavior in the past, this was over the top. You would think they were looking for 14K balls the way they tested the edges of the property line.
And, this didn't happen just once, it happened the two times she stepped into the pool in the late afternoon hours. Fortunately, her boyfriend was with her one of those nights.
I have to admit, I was alarmed, so I ran the security cams the day she left, which was just minutes before we arrived. It was in the time of the evening when there is no more sunlight for the natural eye to pick up. What I saw was a very bright light coming down the golfpath. It was so bright I thought it was a golfcart, but at some point I could see the figure of three men-with one of them holding what must have been a very bright flashlight. They were VERY slow to walk past my house, and even dawdled for a while.
When they did go past my house, they appeared to dawdle behind the next house too.
Another security camera picked up the flashing headlights of a car that was parked inside the development. This was pretty weird, because it appeared as if they were all together and were checking out both the back and front of the house.
I don't find any of this reassuring, except to say that once my husband and I returned a few minutes later, everything seemed to get "normal."
I wouldn't bother reporting it because I'm sure the good buddies in the neighborhood will just claim that it was part of their neighborhood watch program. Which is a lot of bunk, because key to a good neighborhood watch program is having a good relationship with all your neighbors before you start prowling with vigilante groups. At this point, you have to ask yourself, if they really thought something was wrong, why didn't they call the police? Why handle something like this yourself?
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They don't even realize it. But the day they do, this will be the smallest of all the infractions that they will have to acknowledge was wrong and abusive.
