So in college my roomate and I agreed to NEVER lock our door... 90% of the time we never shut our door. We wanted people to feel welcome to hang out and it might have backfired once or twice (that night where everytime one of us woke up there was a different person on our computer)... but all in all, it made life ... I don't know, happier.
All the kids in our neighborhood (adults for that matter) know they can come to our house now when the garage is open, until now.
A few months ago we had 3 nights in a row of crazy people... the first tried to kidnap my zoe, the second tried to rob my garage and the 3rd was caught in my neighbors bushes running from the police... we shut our garage every day forever and no one ever came to visit. so sad.
So the past couple weeks, I've opened it up again atleast until the sun goes down, so that life can come back to our house, until today.
we were leaving to go to the library when I noticed a boy riding his scooter in my driveway. He stopped and stared at me , mouth gaped open, when I said hello. He picked up his scooter and just stared at me, until a couple minutes later he said, "scooter". I tried to get this 8 year old lookin kid to tell me what he was talking about, but that's all he'd say. He picked up his scooter and walked toward us as my kids were buckling up in the car. Once in the garage, he said, "I want to ride a scooter".
"well, yes honey, but we're getting ready to leave, so I need you to go home."
He just stared at me (frankly, I wonder if he was all there), set down his scooter, and looked at ella's scooter.
"I want that scooter, you can have mine, I'll just take that one." He says this as he takes ella's scooter out of the garage. I grabbed the scooter and told him to hold on, that it wasn't his, and he had his own scooter to take. As I shooed him down the driveway so I could leave.
He slowly but surely hopped on his scooter (that worked) and rode off.
As I left i saw him go 2 doors down and drop his scooter running into their garage, til he noticed they were leaving too, and turned around to leave. I got about 3 blocks from the house when I realized that I forgot the books to take back to the library. When I got back and left he was coming BACK down my street, riding straight at me in the middle of the road. He stopped in front of me and waited for me to ride around him and when I tried to get his attention he just gave me a blank look and kept riding. As I left my neighborhood wondering if I should turn around and take him home, I noticed him stopping in front of 2 more of my neighbors trying to drive out and just kept going... he's gone now, but i got to shut my garage door again... sorry for ignoring you kids in the neighborhood, I just want my kids scooter to still be there in the morning.
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