Weirdness....

I had an "interesting" night the last couple of nights. As usual, Brian left for work at about 8PM on Tuesday night. I was in the living room, working on my laptop. It was pretty quiet. All of a sudden, at 8:30PM, I was startled by loud, knocking on my door, followed by the doorbell ringing, followed by the sound of my gate rattling. The knocking was weird, too. It was patterned: knock-knock-knock, knock-knock-knock, knock-knock-knock-knock! It was really freaky.

I was afraid to look through our peep-hole. The peep-hole is really weird because if I have the lights on inside and I look through the peep-hole, the person on the other side of the door can see through the peep-hole that the light is being blocked by someone inside. Also, I'm too short to see through the peep-hole, anyway. I need to grab our little step stool to get a good look.

Anyway, I grabbed my cell phone and ran to the back of our unit and hid in the master bathroom. I quickly called Brian and asked if he was knocking on the door, thinking he may have come back home because he forgot something. I was being optimistic. No such luck. Brian was already on the freeway, halfway to work.

Then, I called my little brother, Steven. He was in Kapolei at the time and I told him what happened and that I was a little freaked out. He offered to come by and check on me, but I told him, "Nah, no need. I'm okay." I calmed down a bit and we hung up. A few minutes later, he called back and told me he was coming over. I felt a lot better when he arrived and after he checked around outside for me. He stayed for about 30 minutes. We tried to rationalize what happened. It was too late at night for it to be a salesman, right? And what kind of idiotic deviant would mess around with people in a townhouse complex where people are in pretty close proximity to each other? So, it must have been someone who accidentally mistook my unit for someone else's, right? Okay, whatever.

Last night, after Brian left for work, I was watching TV. Suddenly, at 9PM, someone knocked AGAIN! At this point, I was really freaked out and scared. I waited about 30 seconds, turned off the TV and lights, grabbed my step-stool, and looked through my peep-hole. What I saw was some guy wearing a light-colored T-shirt, shorts, and slippahs, making his way over to my neighbor across the walkway. In the words of Frank DeLima, I can only describe him as a "Blalah". He knocked on my neighbor's door and my neighbor talked to him through his lanai screen sliding door, which is right next to the front door. Then, I saw this guy wander upstairs to the units above my neighbor. Weird!

I waited another 15 minutes or so and mustered up the courage to go outside. I ran across the walkway and asked my neighbor who that was. I told him about my concerns because strangers have been coming by the last 2 nights in a row, all unreasonably late at night. My neighbor, Grant, said the stranger from Tuesday night was some college-looking girl trying to sell magazine subscriptions and she seemed desperate. SCAM!!! Grant said the stranger from last night was some guy, randomly knocking on doors, trying to find his friend. He said this alleged "friend" lived in some gray townhouses. Um, our townhouses are all pink. Honestly, what kind of person would just randomly knock on doors in a townhouse complex, trying to find someone? Sounds 'effin shady to me.

I live in a good, friendly, quiet neighborhood. This is the first time something like this has happened in the 3-1/2 years we've lived there.

If something like this happens again tonight, I think it might be time to call the cops? I mean, I know I don't need to open the door, but why are these people sniffing around our townhouse complex? Are they "casing the joint"? Aaah, stay tuned....