PaulCSomething
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- Apr 28, 2005
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It was about 9:40 PM as I was leaving my daughter’s mothers townhouse. The townhouse had my ex and two small kids in it. This would be unincorporated Arapahoe county, Major street out east right where it turns into open prairie. I made it about two minutes away when she calls me on the cell phone and asks “are you still here”? No I answered, why? “Someone is banging on the door. Can you come back”? Once she finds out it is not me she really starts to get scared. Well I whip the jeep around and scream back towards her house. I tell her to hang up with me and call 911. I could hardly tell what she was even saying at that point. I told her again, I am on my way, hang up and call 911. She finally hangs up and I drop the cell phone onto the seat next to me and concentrate on driving. It only takes me about 30 seconds to get back to her front door (was I really driving 4 X faster then when I left?). As I come up to her house I drop the clutch and kill the engine. Jump out of the car and draw my legally concealed pistol. From the street I can see the front door, but the very small back yard has a 5 foot privacy fence. I run up to the house but because she lives in a house next to open fields and no lights I can’t see a damn thing in the back yard! I run back to the car and get my single LED keychain light. Let me tell you how useless that thing was. I still have my pistol out and am checking the back yard and calling her name. No answer. I check the door and it is still closed and locked, she knows I’m coming back but still doesn’t answer the door. Well from her perspective she had someone banging on the door and ringing the door bell. Then she sees a flashlight flashing panning her back yard, then the flashlight is pointing in the windows. At this point I expect the cops to show at any time, so I holster my gun but keep my hand on it. She is still on the line with 911 and finally sees me through the window. She knows it’s me, but there is another twist! She sees me outside her house “confronting someone” in a pickup truck that she doesn’t recognize. Turns out the pickup was a concerned citizen that stopped to see what the hell I was up to running around with my flashlight. Well she still doesn’t answer the door and I for the life of me can not remember the address. I see the lights on next door and ring the door bell. I tell her the someone was banging on my Ex’s door and to call 911 (I am at my Ex’s house all the time and the neighbor recognizes me easily). I finally see my Ex through the window and tell her come outside. 911 asks her is she is sure it is me and can trust me to be sure it is safe to go outside. She assures them that she trusts me and that she is going outside and hangs up. So it’s one scared ex, myself and a concerned citizen standing outside. I tell the guy in the pickup that the police have been called and are on their way. I also tell the neighbor next door that 911 has been contacted. So where standing outside for want seems like a long time for a place that appears to have a high police presence. The police arrive and several other people come out to tell them what they had seen. It looks now like there where several kids out causing trouble. They didn’t catch the kids but I’m sure that is what it was.
I’m not afraid to admit I WAS SCARED! Shaking like a leave to be exact. I don’t know that any training could ever reproduce the adrenalin dump like I got. IDPA is as close as I have come and it just wasn’t any ware near the same. I always keep my finger off the trigger. Was it this time? I don’t know. I’m 99% sure it was due to mussel memory but you just can’t consciously think of things like that when you’re this excited. You already have to know it and you will do it. I just saw a tagline from someone here on the forum that basically reads. People don’t rise to the occasion they revert to their level of training. How true it is. It is time to renew my practice with an eye towards better skills and not just plinking
Here is what I see as the lessons learned.
#1 Have a cell phone. Check.
#2 Have a gun. Check.
#3 Have a good bright flashlight. DAMNIT! (I have one but the $5 a pop deracell batteries are dead)
#4 Have a plan. CRAP!
Now that it is over tell me what you think.
Thanks for letting me tell my long winded story.
Oh yes, the kids never did wake up.
I’m not afraid to admit I WAS SCARED! Shaking like a leave to be exact. I don’t know that any training could ever reproduce the adrenalin dump like I got. IDPA is as close as I have come and it just wasn’t any ware near the same. I always keep my finger off the trigger. Was it this time? I don’t know. I’m 99% sure it was due to mussel memory but you just can’t consciously think of things like that when you’re this excited. You already have to know it and you will do it. I just saw a tagline from someone here on the forum that basically reads. People don’t rise to the occasion they revert to their level of training. How true it is. It is time to renew my practice with an eye towards better skills and not just plinking
Here is what I see as the lessons learned.
#1 Have a cell phone. Check.
#2 Have a gun. Check.
#3 Have a good bright flashlight. DAMNIT! (I have one but the $5 a pop deracell batteries are dead)
#4 Have a plan. CRAP!
Now that it is over tell me what you think.
Thanks for letting me tell my long winded story.
Oh yes, the kids never did wake up.