karries thoughts

Friday, August 20, 2004

someone was watching over us

i just want to go on the record here and say that theres nothing like a rude awakening to really throw an entire day off track for you. i live in a modular home and the speed limit through the park is 15 mph. but apparently some people feel that 15 mph is only a SUGGESTED limit. i live 2 houses in off the corner and theres a stop sign at the corner on my street and also the corner of the street that you take to my house and i cant tell you how many times i have seen people blowing the stop signs. and then you have the other night. it was about 315 or 330 and i was just dozing off to sleep after talking to my boyfriend and all of a sudden i hear one of my neighbors roaring through the park sqealing his tires as he turned the corner. i thought nothing of it at first because he usually does this around this time anyways and usually its twice. however i should have been more alarmed because my dogs started barking like crazy and they wouldnt shut up. and the sqealing seemed to last longer than usual. i laid in bed waiting for him to come back but this time he never did. and the dogs were still barking so i decided that i would get out of bed and see what was gonna happen, if he was gonna come back or what. i walked out into the front room and my mom was on the couch looking out the front window and she said " i heard him hit something" so we decided to go out and see what he hit. i told her i was gonna go back into the house and grab my house phone incase he decided to come roaring back through the park. well as i was walking out the door my mom comes running in the house going " that mother fucker hit our tree" so she went and got my step dad up and as she was doing that i went and looked at the damage and sure enough our tree had been hit. i saw the tire marks on the lawn and my heart started to race because i had my car parked a few feet from the tree. i went on to the passanger side of the car and felt for damage. THANK GOD HE DIDN'T GET THE CAR. my step dad grabbed a flashlight and searched the house for damage there was none thankfully. from the tracks on the lawn he stopped a couple of feet short of hitting the house. our tree was underneath the car. thank god it wasnt a big tree other wise there probally would have been damage. i guess my mom and step dad owe thanks to that little tree, which the park patched up but will have to remove, because had it not been for that little tree, that car may have plowed right through the house and into their room. its funny now because everytime we hear a car speeding through here we all jump. they didnt sleep last night because everytime they heard a car drive by they woke up. we found out later on thursday that it was a police chase and one of the guys that was in the car was arrested and the other one is still on the loose. apparently they both had guns in the car. now this was the second time in as many months that the neighborhood has seen police action of this sort. we were just getting back to a normal way of life after the whole timothy berner man hunt and now this. whats next ????????