Another Stranger-In-My-House Story

My Craigslist Stranger Incident from yesterday reminded me of another crazy thing that happened to me about five years ago when my eldest was just a few months old.

It was a weekday morning and I was sitting on the couch watching The View (back in the days when adult programming was actually on my television before 8:30p.m.). Rylan was upstairs taking a nap in the nursery.

All of a sudden this man walks into my house.

I jumped up off the couch and started slowly walking toward him yelling "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!! YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE!!! YOU NEED TO LEAVE!!!"

He said, "I'm just here to install the new carpet..."

And I said, "I'm not getting any new carpet, you need to leave NOW!"

So he turned around and left.

Turns out that my neighbor was having new carpet installed and her mom knew the carpet guy. My neighbor was going to be at work so they told him the house would be unlocked and to just walk on in. And he did - just to the wrong house.

I was super pleased with myself on how I handled the situation because you never really know how you'll react until it actually happens. Mama Bear came out and I was not going to let this man anywhere near my cub.

We also started making sure that we kept our doors locked at all times, even at 10am on a Tuesday morning.