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When I left for work this morning (well, actually the dentist, first), I couldn't find the remote control to turn my television off. I turned it off by the button on the TV. It's just after 6:00 tonight, and I just got home. There was a strange light in the house when I opened the door.

The television was on, and the remote control was on the bed. At first, I thought that the cats turned the television on by accident. The only thing is: The remote control was turned sideways on the bed. They couldn't have turned it on facing sideways -- unless, of course, the smacked it around a little bit. It wasn't on the bed when I left though. I looked.

I live alone, and I can't tell you how bad the chills were when I realized that the remote was facing sideways and remembered that I couldn't find it this morning!

spooky

I'm with Far on this one, Valerie. You can't be too careful. The carpeting was a great idea.

Try my old dorm room trick too. Scotch tape a human hair across the door and frame to that room when you leave. Either up high or way low, not eye level.

When you come back, if the hair is broken, you've been visited.

SnoozeControl wrote: Yes, and while you're at it, check all your ceiling vents for cameras. :rolleyes:not to mention your teeth.

Thats nothing, my dog can program the DVD player better than I can, and the cats regurlarly have Kitty Cat dinner parties on the veranda. You should follow Far Riders advice, but you also check to see if your intake of Lysurgic Acid is too high. :wah:

SnoozeControl wrote: LMAO... stop it!

Hey, don't you have a hot date tonight?


Thanks snooze, thats true, but it was boring, well........ok....not very genlemanly of me the music was great, but she was boring, so I made up an excuse about my having to do stuff early tomorrow morning so I scarpered at 12. Of course now there will be twenty questions, I will get scolded by mutual friends, etc etc, but I would have only ended up taking the p*ss out of her, and I certainly wasn't interested in the getting busy side of things, so I think that ultimately I was being nice.

SnoozeControl wrote: Well, I'm glad you're here. Mention to your friends that you were at a party with us. Just don't mention you were online... that just sounds sort of creepy, know what I mean?


Actually she was so boring, that there was a WiFi area in the building housing the trad music night, and I actually posted on it, so I guess I kind of cheated on her with you lot (except the men, it didn't happen guys, relax!). Actually I must admit I am beat tired as I was walking my crazy dog for miles down the river in the rain, early and then he jumped in, he's only a youngen, the igit, but he was grand, anyway, he then jumped all over me, and destroyed me even more with muck and water, and we still had to drive home in the car, and I have to play Nirvana at full volume in the car cause he whines and bark at every single other car. God what an intereting life I lead. So, anyway, I'm still up for some lovely american ladies, and I will try to be gentlemanly at all times!

ArnoldLayne wrote: Oh ! I feel so cheap now


Go way out of that, you love it, how often do you become the "other woman" in a strangers' strangely compelling menage a Trois situation involving the internet and lots of Americans? Unless you've been to Slough lately that is, its renowed for that particular tyepe of thing!.

ArnoldLayne wrote: Now I feel cheap and strangely detached. Cheap because of all these internet interlopers in this menage a trente and detached cos.....well.....I didnt know till it was all over


Oh arnold I do miss you when your not around, you have the soul of a poet, the heart of a new mother, and the wit of several less funny men combined. But its all over now, so don't be getting any ideas.

Now as to what the concensus is to Americans and sex, well, I know quite a few Americans, I had an American girl friend, and there were one or two "encounters". I don't know, I think younger Americans are competely romanticised about love and sex actually (I know there are other who are the exact opposite) but when I was in colleege a lot of my friends had, had one partner since they were 19 or something, and were going to get married at 22, which we would say is way, way, 2 early, some hadn't even slept together, which we found nuts, and some seemed really sweet and wanted to live in the house with the picket fence. It was touching in a way, cause they were genuine, but I could see why the divorce rates are so high. But thats only a broad observation on college kids, whose parents could aford to have them taught in England for the year. I do not know if there is any broad thing I could really say, except that you do it, and seem to enjoy it as much as the average Swedish teenager, so healthy enough.

Valerie100 wrote: When I left for work this morning (well, actually the dentist, first), I couldn't find the remote control to turn my television off. I turned it off by the button on the TV. It's just after 6:00 tonight, and I just got home. There was a strange light in the house when I opened the door.

The television was on, and the remote control was on the bed. At first, I thought that the cats turned the television on by accident. The only thing is: The remote control was turned sideways on the bed. They couldn't have turned it on facing sideways -- unless, of course, the smacked it around a little bit. It wasn't on the bed when I left though. I looked.

I live alone, and I can't tell you how bad the chills were when I realized that the remote was facing sideways and remembered that I couldn't find it this morning!
Just a reminder of what this thread was about. I know a guy who kept suspecting someone of coming in and stealing his food. He walked in one day to find the neighbor enjoying his food AND tv. If it had been me finding him, he'd have left in a body bag.

Can you say poltergiest? They love the holiday season.

You got some really good advice from your friends here. In addition, you may want to consider going home a little earlier than usual, & bringing a few strong strapping male friends home with you in case you do catch an intruder!

You could do the vacuuming thing but if you dont like to vacuum you could pour flour all over the floor. You will see footprints in flour too. Thats what I would do.

cars wrote: You got some really good advice from your friends here. In addition, you may want to consider going home a little earlier than usual, & bringing a few strong strapping male friends home with you in case you do catch an intruder!
This is good. Even if no one is there ask them to stay and you could all play twister. *wink wink*

Thanks everyone for the friendly and interesting remarks!

The only one with a key to my place is the landlord. I called her, and she said that she hadn't been in. My back door has a microwave cart in front of it, so it doesn't even get used. No one could have gotten in that way.

My cats would tear the flour all over the place. No footprints would be visible.

Maybe, I'll just stick something behind the front door when I leave. If it's moved I'll know about it. Then start using my back door.

Oh, I asked my dentist about my teeth. I've had six fillings in the passed couple of months, and I've been getting sensitivity to hot and cold and hearing electronic chirps sometimes when I'm near a cell phone or other electronic equiptment. Since I have the white fillings, the dentist said it was probably just oversensitivity, which is the truth. I am highly sensitive, not so much emotionally anymore, but I do pick up on stuff.

Anyway, thanks again all!

P.S. Galbally, why didn't you just tell the woman that she was nice, but you just weren't interested in her. I've done this with men on some dates. Honesty is always the best policy. This way, she isn't expecting to hear from you.

P.S. Galbally, why didn't you just tell the woman that she was nice, but you just weren't interested in her. I've done this with men on some dates. Honesty is always the best policy. This way, she isn't expecting to hear from you.


Thank you Valerie for the advice, but I never pass up an opportunity to do the wrong thing when it is presented to me, I find it keeps the mystery in life alive. As to the tooth problem I refer you to advice I gave to SnoozeControl earlier in my advice column. Though I find that dental problems are not normally due to alien takovers, but have more mundane causes.

Whew, what a relief aliens haven't taken me over -- or have they? (imagining Twilight Zone music).

oh, so you stole my friendly ghost helper "fred"

he's harmless really. he plays tricks like hiding things for a day or two. but if you ask him really nicely, he'll give it back later that day.

he's a good listener too. take care of him. he likes batteries for breakfast. AA's. carkeys make a good bedtime snack for him.

tell him i said "hi"