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That happened in San Jose, California. She didn't want to stay there and insisted my brother take a job elsewhere immediately. He had already been approached for a job in Tennessee at the time so he took it. She was scared to death to be alone in the house. I helped them move and it was quite a trip to take across the nation with a caravan of cars and trailers and one very very pregnant and not too happy woman. To this day, I can't believe we made it. The baby was born in TN three days after they got there

You guys should write for the funny papers

It can be a mistake not to answer a door in some fashion if only to tersely ask who it is through the locked door (while armed of course). My sister in law found that out when she was 8 months pregnant. She did not answer the door when she saw through the peep hole it was two strange men. She thought they had left when she heard them breaking in the back door. They thought no one was home. She was unarmed and hid in the clothes hamper of the master bath with the phone. She frantically called 911. It was a hair raising wait for the police to come while she listened to the burglars ransacking the house room by room. They were actually in the master bedroom when the cops got there and announced themselves. The scum made haste out the back, but they got caught
They told the police they would not have come in if they had known someone was home.
We thought sure that baby would be born with it's hair standing on end

witchdoctor575 wrote:my wife thinks I am nuts to carry at home, but she doesn't give me grief for it. at least when I have to pull an all nighter she puts her 1911 in her nightstand drawer. she knows crazies lurk everywhere.

A friend of mine woke up one night to find a man standing over her with HER gun in his hand. He had simply opened her nightstand drawer and picked it up while she slept soundly. Most of us sleep soundly at some point during the night to the point it can take a pretty loud sound to waken us. Luckily, it was dark enough he did not realize she had awakened. She waited and he simply left since guns was what he was looking for to steal. He had searched through her home for a while and gotten others as well. He was later caught. He was a young man who was living on her street and had burglarized several houses without the owners even waking up while he quietly searched their bedrooms and closets.

I do not ever put my gun in the night stand or under my bed. It's like putting the key to the house under the door mat--it's common knowledge to look for it there. My gun is right next to me in a simple clip holster under a long body pillow that I sleep with my arms around under the covers. If someone even thought of looking for it there, they would have to disturb me to do it. I don't want to ever wake up to the situation my friend did.