Nah. I have a layer of abstraction. He will assess any aunauthorised house sounds. Harshly.
Yup. And once you experience a breakin, you will suffer this forever…
My recliner makes a creaking noise whenever I fully recline it. The other day I was napping in it, fully reclined already, when I heard the creaking noise. Way to fucking ruin a great nap.
Just get cats! Then you can just blame all strange noises on them.
My problem is that my landlord would make random unscheduled visits with his dogs. I assumed it was him or his dog. It was a home invader, who found the front door unlocked. My landlord left it unlocked. I know it was him, because I parked in the back and never used the front door.
You probably know by now but the landlord just entering your rented space is illegal in many countries. In many parts of the world you can change the lock even so only you have access.
My cat once deterred a home intruder back when I lived in a very shitty first floor apartment across the street from several very cheap bars. I had a rack of DVD’s by the front door next to a small table like area where I’d put my keys. My cat would be sitting there when I got home, or when outside sounds got interesting, and occasionally he would knock over that DVD rack when he’d leap away, especially if a loud sound scared him.
then one time I got home to a busted lock and a slightly open door. I tried to run in, but that dvd rack had fallen forward from him kicking off of it, bounced off the wall, and landed between the door and the wall, essentially wedging it closed. I had to hulk it open, crushing the dvd rack, but that had kept the intruder from actually getting in. My cat was panting in panic, so it probably happened only minutes before I got there. I made sure that cat lived like a king for 15 more years.
I have a liiiiitle suspicion that it won’t be just strange noises.
And then be tripple worried that some of those sounds will be the sounds of something expensive breaking
Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
One morning I had a sleep paralysis while heat radiator was audibly leaking water. Woken up by sound of slowly unfolding emergency, but unable to do anything about it, even take a look, what a timing.
Anyway, when I finally was finally able to look, nothing was out of ordinary. It was just a sleep paralysis hallucination, either fully fabricated or creatively reinterpreting sounds of water in pipes from some works
Plumbing is the worst. Just kill me now
10x worse with cats. What the fuck have you gotten into…
My cat actually saved me from a break in by straight up attacking the dude.
I was sleeping on the couch in my trailer and suddenly woke up to my cat yowling and some dude screaming and by the time I realized what was going on the guy had already run out the door with my cat right behind him.
Kitty cut deep too cause there was blood spatter on the door frame where dude grabbed it while running away.
I sometimes wonder if attributing every weird noise to the cat is dangerous. I’ll hear something and think “ah, it’s just the cat” and go back to sleep without checking.
*gun cocking noises"
meh, probably the cat.
The cat was getting ready for the revolution.
The worst is when you think “ah, it’s just the cat”, but then you see them sleeping nearby. So now I have to assume it’s just a little ghost cat, so I can go right back to sleep
Is that not one of the reasons to have a cat?
Easily one of the top 5 reasons, right up there with killing spiders
My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.
I once rented a 2BR apartment and a couple of months in my landlord removed one of the bedrooms. It was like pulling teeth but I finally got him to lower my rent by $50.
The other night I heard a weird explosion sound and eventually classified it into the firework category and moved on. It was a meteor. Always investigate the weird sound at 5am, who needs sleep?
Damn, one of your neighbors might have found baby Superman instead of you.
A son? In this economy?
I’m guessing that’s what I heard a few months ago.
People all around our lake heard a loud explosion at the same time, but nobody ever found the source.
Around me it’s always pricks setting off illegal fireworks but somehow the bad guy is the person slashing their tyres so they don’t come back to the neighbourhood
Exploding head syndrome sufferers REPRESEEEENT!!!
I CAN’T HEEEAR YOOOOU!
Thankfully it doesn’t happen to me very often.
Wow that really sucks! I’m sorry you go through this
Me right now after just having moved into a new place. Every damn night.
That’s just my lovely GF watching me sleep ❤️
(she doesn’t like her dreams)
I read house as horse and thought this was referencing long horse telling you shit bouta get shitty.
If I had a ghost in the house, I wonder if he/she would help out with the rent?
