Anyway, one day during that time that I was studying, I was lying on the couch alone at home reading away when I heard someone drive up. We live on some of my dad and uncle's farm land so multiple times a day I would hear someone drive up to the barn/grain bin/etc. I just assumed it was something to do with that. The next thing I know, my front door opened and an older man (70's maybe?) stepped just inside my door and hollered "anyone home?!?". No knock, no knock then go ahead and open the door, not even so much as a slowly open the door and peek your head in... WHO DOES THAT?!? Talk about creepy...
I was completely surprised and shocked by this situation. I jumped up off the couch, hurried over to the door to make sure he didn't come in any more than he already had and asked him "can I help you" (insert tone of "what the heck are you doing in my house"). He looked at me then quickly looked across the house and asked, "where's Jesse?" I told him that no one by that name lived here. He responded, "well I'm looking for Jesse".
After a brief awkward silence, I mentioned the name of a Jesse that I knew use to be in a bulldozing business with my grandfather and asked if that is who he needed. He said it was. I explained to him that Jesse and my granddaddy had a bulldozing business together but that my granddaddy passed away over 4 years ago and therefore the business is no longer together and that Jesse has no connection at with our house.
The man blankly looked at me, looked over by the barn (there are tractors and other equipment around our house but no bulldozers), then looks at me again and says, "well I need a tank cleaned out". I said "I'm sorry I can't help you with that and the stuff you are looking at by the barn is all farm use only. Jesse has nothing to do with this location at all."
You would think that by this point he would apologize for the misunderstanding and continue on his way. No. He went on to ask me how he can get a hold of Jesse. I know I had to have a stunned look on my face. What I really wanted to say was, "I don't know! I have no connection with Jesse whatsoever. I don't own a bulldozer and I can't clean out your tank. Don't you know you can't just walk into strangers houses? That's a good way to scare someone and get shot... Maybe you should at least apologize for scaring me and wasting 5 minutes of my time. Instead I simply replied, "I don't know, maybe look in a phone book?"
He finally left with no apology for the misunderstanding. The best I can figure is the man thought our house was some bulldozing business office (not exactly a look I was going for). I guess we do have truck scales almost directly in front of our house, and it's not your typical "home-like" location being surrounded by tractors and grain bins. You would think he would at least act sorry once he got inside and realized that, in fact, it wasn't a business office. He simply said "OK" and walked away.
Tip of the day (or for Kim, Chapter 48)--Always keep your doors locked.
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| This looks like someone lives here, right??? |
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| The barn he was so confused about. |
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| We do have this tractor next to our house now. NOT a bulldozer. |
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