Reply #39: my moment of terror

[NJCher]

I am shuddering at some of the posts on this thread! Good thread idea.

Champ! I am so glad you are OK! I would have been terrified, too--knowing full well what these dogs are capable of. Oh mannnnnnnnnnnnn. Boy were you smart in getting out of that situation. And, MsGadget, I'm glad your dog turned out to be OK.

Here's mine. I told this story here a few years back.

I'd come in from a swim and had taken a shower. Hot summer night. Had a skimpy night robe on and was lying on my bed when I heard something outside my window. Figured it was a raccoon or something.

To make matters scarier, let me tell you that I live back in a wooded area on a mountain at the end of a private road. It dead ends with me. I was home alone that night.

The French doors to the deck were open in the adjoining room. I hear sounds, like paper rustling. I dismiss it, thinking it's my cat.

At one point I decided to get up and check it out. But I couldn't get up! It was like there was a giant hand pushing down on my chest and I felt like I weighed 500 lbs. I simply could not get up. At this point, I was petrified. The back of my neck flashed hot and cold and I could feel my skin prickling. This vague awareness that I was in danger seeped in like water under a door.

A day or two later I examined the screen at the French door. It had been pried off. We later learned over $5000 in valuables had been taken--in less than 90 seconds.

A friend and neighbor remarked that the MO was like a burglar who ripped off a diamond ring worth 10k from her home.

A few months later, a man in a town just down the street got up to investigate sounds he heard in his living room. He was shot in the stomach when he walked into the room and was in the hospital for a long time.

When I read this in the newspaper I was grateful for that giant hand that seemed to be pinning me down.

Late this summer they caught a burglar who had burglarized hundreds of homes in this area. And guess what: it was the same guy who had been caught for stealing my friend's diamond ring.

How weird is that?


Cher