urban life

[gfrancie]

Mr. Jenner noticed that the window downstairs in his office caused a significant draft so he decided to investigate and possibly fix the problem. So he begins to pull things apart and attend to things.
A neighbor didn't recognize him from afar (or something) and thought he was someone trying to break into the house.
The cops were called.
They were very nice about it and Mr. Jenner showed that his was not a life of crime and petty larceny.

Of course the cops are now standing out in front of our house having a chat or something and there are two cop cars surrounding our drive. They are both at an angle to kind of indicate even further, "BTW THERE ARE COPS HERE AT THIS BROWN HOUSE!!!"
It is a little embarrassing.
I wish I could put a sign in our window that says, "nothing wrong. Move along, move along."

Comments

[rockrgirl8.livejournal.com]

at least your neighbors are looking out. as for the cop spectacle...let the speculation begin. you will always have an air of scandal. ; )

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was pleased that we have neighbors who are alert.
But the freaking cops just decided to stand out and loiter in front of my house after they had found out that Mr. Jenner wasn't breaking in.
I should have put a sign out that says, "no loitering."

[tenebrous.livejournal.com]

Egad! The coppers?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I know.
I didn't tell them that I knew you. You are safe for another day.

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

hahaha

But were there THREEEE COPS

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Alas.
There were only Dos Coppers

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

oh, my fucking hell! i had no idee that you had a criminal past!

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. For more of the backstory, see here. hehehe.

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

not only did you b'n'e...but you flaunted it in the face of ter laaaaaaaaaaaaawr!

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

Totally. Johnny Lawwwwr can just eat my shorts.

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

dear tkbs,

it is the lawwwwwwwr? not the laaaaaaaaaaaawr? is this like the great tkbs incident where, for no discernible reason, you were dubbed tkbs instead of the much more logical tcbs?

~rwkn

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

O yes, it is mos def lawwwwwr, son. Just like it's "I'm just sayinGGGG" but people perpetually do their own TKBS-inspired "I'm just sayin"s.

Laaaaaawr is heavy on the Ahhh, clearly. Lawwwwwwr requires a much more curled lip with emphasis on the caved-in mouth like a toofless granny.

And there you have it, RWCN.

[pink-aster.livejournal.com]

I thought of that incident when I read this.

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

I have to bring it up every time cops and breaking & entering are mentioned, you know.

[cigale.livejournal.com]

I knew you were bad! So bad!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I just hang out with bad people.

[cigale.livejournal.com]

Yeah that foreign husband of yours. You must be careful around foreigners you never know what they are up to. Fixing a window? stealing your fridge?

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

How true. A little xenophobia never hurts.

[sahara-harp.livejournal.com]

You shoulda gone out in your bathrobe stinking of gin and throwing cigarette butts at the neighborhood kids.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

No gin in the house. Maybe next time I will just go out in a slip, with Senor Onion on one hip and a trashy magazine in one hand.
"Whatchya mens doin' I'm tryin' to read mah stories and you woke Moondog here. I'm a fixin' to give you two a seein' to."

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

this could lead to some interesting roll playing later. ::ahem::

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Hee. You so bad.

[kristenlou.livejournal.com]

Damn, should have saved those Krispy Kreme coupons from the paper. You could have handed them out and the copulators would have been falling over each other to get outta there and on to the donuts.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Now I want some donuts.
Though Krispy Kreme doesn't make krullers right.
It is hard to find a good kruller.

[lightprincess89.livejournal.com]

Sluys Bakery in Poulsbo makes a mighty fine kruller.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Now I am going to have to travel and get some.

[wolfchilde.livejournal.com]

I got the cops called on me when I was moving a friend in to my house!!! Last I knew thieves to move furniture out but hey. And yeah the cops loitered then as well, maybe they like to feel important when called for naught.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

It is nice to know that the cops are around.

[jawnbc]

1. Is that your story and you're sticking to it?

and

2. Douglas Adams put this really well in one of his post-Hitchhiker books. Words to the effect of "the police parked their cars in such a disruptive way that communicated to all who passed that there was serious police business here and everyone else could just fuck off.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

1. Totally. It wasn't some role-playing thing that got out of hand.

2. Adams completely nailed it on the head. The cops stood in my drive like it was a Sundae social. Chatty chatty chatty. I almost wanted to stick my head out the window and say, "girls... stop gossiping."

[needlediva.livejournal.com]

when the local Star Asshole Cop followed me home to tell me my license plate was dirty, he pulled his patrol car in behind me in a similar manner and then proceeded to turn on all his flashing lights. didnt want anybody to miss his presence, i guess.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

He obviously wasn't paying a social visit. *snorts*

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

On one hand, it's nice to have observant neighbors. On the other hand, it's hilarious that neighbors can't recognize their own neighbors from common thieves.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, especially when most of the prowling in our part of the city is done by teenagers. Maybe they think he looks rather youthful.

[komalow.livejournal.com]

On the flip side, one time, when locked out of the house at 3 AM*, my dad took out a ladder and was climbing up to one of our windows on the front of the lawn. I cop drove by the spectacle and. . . kept driving. Made me a bit uneasy about the strength of law enforcement in our town.

*My parents are on the whole intelligent and competent people, but they are made of fail when it comes to practical responsibilities such as OWNING A KEY TO ONE'S HOUSE.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Hee.
I must be related to you. I do that kind of thing.