what do you reach for?
 

One dark and stormy night, on which the moon peaked through the clouds overhead, suddenly a knocking came at the door to your house, rap. rap. rap. Looking quickly trough the bedroom window, you see standing on the front porch a shadowy figure, skulking beneath the overhang. Before rushing downstairs you have time to take but a single object, what do you reach for?

My mobile phone. I'll speak through the door to see who it is. If I don't know them they ain't comin in and I'll call the police.

I reach for the light switch.

Oh, hi Mom. What are you doing out on a night like tonight?

I roll over and go back to sleep, as I am obviously unable to physically see what I think I see? ;)

The vodka bottle tipped over next to my bed.

My husband's ass, to push him out of bed. He can deal with it.

lol@ binky

Well I guess it would depend on if it were say...Halloween or not...or early in the evening. I could have left my lights on.*shrug*


...gotta be scarier...like taking a glass cutter to the window I might get a knife out then call the coppers.

At both of my houses (mom's and dad's, yes they're divorced) it is physically impossible to see the front porch and the driveway, so this scenario is one that I deal with whenever someone comes over (day or night) if I'm home alone, and someone knocks, I always have to decide whether or not I feel it's safe enough to try and answer it. I'm little, and female, and in the middle of the woods where nobody could possibly hear me scream, so it's a very nerve wracking thing. A lot of times I just plain don't answer, other times I'll get something hard and pointy up my sleeve in my hand...just in case and I always crack the door open juuust a little to make sure it's safe first.

A hammer. This has happened before. My husband is always fast asleep and I don't want to have to wake him up to take out a crackhead.:)

We both love the hammer, I noticed this as soon as we started dating, any problems and we both seemed to gravitate towards the hammer. We had a utility hammer left in a drawer and one in the bedroom for bad neighborhood control. It's kind of an unspoken preference in our household.

This also happened at my last job, it was night in an unsavory neighborhood, a side door was left open, and someone whistled to see if anyone was there. After they asked repeatedly if I was alone they left. I had no hammer but they could tell by the look in my eyes that I was not afraid and might just take their head off. I am a tiny female, but I can scare the hell out of a lot of people when they are trying to create a problem. In which case, I grabbed an attitude and resourceful thinking. I didn't even bother with the phone...Just scared the asshole away.

Sidenote: None of that applies if what you are looking at is not human looking, or the coyote you were expecting to see.....I call it "not a coyote" in which case you just lock your door and hope that it leaves and try to get a photo of it. There, you grab a camera and take a photo of it as best as you can.

urk! @ the "not a coyote"

Obvoiusly it's a candygram, rush down and open the door!

d-----n

That doesn't spell tazer. Someone figure out that riddle up there.

Oh, and let me know what the answer is.