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Nothing quite like a not very coherent shirtless guy knocking on your door at one in the morning to scare the crap out of you. First time in two decades I've felt unsafe in this neighborhood.

My former neighbors were J.W.'s actually. I can only hope the people who rent that house next door to me are as quiet. The rest of my neighbors are slowly driving me nuts.

I suspect this fellow was seeing someone a couple houses down and was kicked out. Didn't sound drunk, but something was very "off" in the way they spoke.

And this morning I was awakened by another knock at the door. (Like I can sleep with all the home improvement racket, and the guy using a leaf blower at 7:30!) It was young woman asking if they could use the phone. I let them use my ancient flip phone I keep around as a backup. Pretty sure there's a connection to last night. My night visitor left when the police showed up, but it was hard to see if he actually left in their custody.

Like I don't have enough aggravation without getting sucked into an episode of COPS.

I didn't let her in. I've dealt with strange people before. ;)

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

Nothing quite like a not very coherent shirtless guy knocking on your door at one in the morning to scare the crap out of you. First time in two decades I've felt unsafe in this neighborhood.

 can you elaborate any?   what did the guy say to you?  what did he want?

 He wanted to me call a cab, claiming his car had broken down. Neither of the two numbers I had handy were working and I was so shook up I was having trouble just working the phone. Someone beat me to calling the cops anyway.

His story was fishy in that this is a gated area, (as was his explanation for not having a shirt) and there were a lot of houses closer than mine to the pedestrian entrance. In the end his car turned out to be just down my street, inside the gates. I think both parties originated from a house where the cops seem to visit a couple times a month.

If the newer porchlights across the way were not blinding me I would have been able to see if the cops arrested him or not. They were gone pretty fast either way.

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

And this morning I was awakened by another knock at the door. (Like I can sleep with all the home improvement racket, and the guy using a leaf blower at 7:30!) It was young woman asking if they could use the phone. I let them use my ancient flip phone I keep around as a backup.

I hope you told her/them to get a cell phone, that way  she/they won't have to knock on a total stranger's door to make a phone call.

 I will if she returns. I was so exhausted from lack of sleep and not feeling well, if it had been a traveling salesman, I would have a shiny new set of encyclopedias now. ;)

As I already own Florida swamp land, you're a bit late to that party. ;)

Immigrating to Canada is a really annoying process. Gotta get medical checks, police checks, drop a ton of money on all three of these things and maybe get denied in the end. And I have to do this all before my work visa expires and I have to leave the country and my girlfriend.

But at least I'm not immigrating to the US.

Well I'm a U.S. citizen already and will not be renouncing my goddamn freedom; just the process to get into the U.S. is incredibly prohibitive. After doing my research with my girlfriend to get her into the country on a permanent basis, I am not at all surprised people decide to do it the illegal way. For a country built on immigration, we sure don't seem to want any more new people.

I mean, unless you're rich, basically.

People seem so shocked about illegal immigration ruining the country, but I think we're really creating the problem ourselves after my experience with the U.S. border and a one hundred percent white Canadian girlfriend. It's the prohibition thing: you make something hard to do and people end up doing it illegally, and when you're not welcoming, they don't assimilate properly (though Canada has problems with being too welcoming which makes people not assimilate properly and then you end up with a pretty broken political system because you have to play to dozens of mini-cultures instead of a unified Canadian culture).

That's more frustrating than my deal, honestly.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tyrphanax said:

Immigrating to Canada is a really annoying process. Gotta get medical checks, police checks, drop a ton of money on all three of these things and maybe get denied in the end. And I have to do this all before my work visa expires and I have to leave the country and my girlfriend.

But at least I'm not immigrating to the US.

Welcome to the Great White North. Pull up a seat and have some Canadian bacon with maple syrup, eh.

Hey thanks. Not sure what to do aboot this moose that's loose in my hoose, though...