My mood has improved since last night, so I thought I’d share a few more details from the Power Incident and also the first half of the story (which is actually quite funny).

So I pull into my driveway last night after a few days of being gone, and there’s a strange car in my parking space. That’s weird, we are all very courteous w/ our spaces. I’m on the phone with my sister, walk to the door with my arms all full of bags and papers - open my front door, flick the light switch, nothing happens. Flick another switch. Nothing. Turn on a lamp, nothing. My sister says “You’re home alone, there’s a strange car in the driveway, and you have no power? Aren’t you scared?”. “Well… I WASN’T scared… but now I might be.” I hear a noise in the back bedroom (in hindsight, probably a tree branch on the window), and that was all I needed. I turned around, went back to my car with all my bags, and drove to the grocery store a few blocks away. I don’t even think I locked my front door. I called Jef.

Jef: You left?
Krit: Yes
Jef: Why?
Krit: I got scared
Jef: Why?
Krit: Because I watch too much CSI
Krit: Someone could have been there to murder me.
Jef: Call your leasing company, ask them send a maintenance person
Jef: And then go to Stephanie’s (next door)
Jef: You have a key, she’ll understand even if she isn’t home
Jef: Better than just sitting in your car
Krit: Yeah… that makes sense.

I realize now I had lost all sense of logic. I have a Mag-Light in my trunk (that story later), so I grabbed that (for a light source as well as a possible weapon) and went back home.

Turns out, the car in the driveway was Stephanie’s new roommate starting to move her things in. Poor girl, for awhile there I thought maybe it was THEIR power that was supposed to be shut off, or the sorority girls next door, and I was walking around muttering about people who don’t pay their bills. In my defense, I was cold, and mad, and a little skittish at being in my dark house w/ only some candles and a flashlight.

I talked to my mom this morning and she said that unless they were a contender for the Darwin awards, someone trying to rob a house and attack the occupant probably wouldn’t do it while parked in said house’s driveway. Again. A very logical statement. My question is this - where were you LAST NIGHT, mom? And why didn’t you pass either of that logic on to your daughters?