Really, Beware

Hey all,

As everyone on my list knows our driveway is a half mile long.

Today a person came to solicited us to buy books and donate them to a hospital so they could earn money to go to London. Never heard of any of the hospitals of choice...

It didn't add up for me, his collage type cloths. He seemed too old. Mentioning a neighbor that I didn't know, his "grand parents"....

He had tattoos on his knuckles and all over his arms and legs. Didn't seem to fit with his Seersucker shorts and knit Polo top.......

I told him that I wanted his name and phone number and wanted some kind of ID. Oh, it was back at his car at his grandparents house.......

Only one order form, a brochure that seemed never to have been handled before, this was his second trip down the driveway? What are you out for exercise?

OK, give me your name and phone number, I am calling the Resident State Trooper to see if he knows anything of you.......or your grandparents.....

Believe me when I tell you by the time I called the local dispatch for the police, Dave was turning the truck around and we went to see exactly where he was..........yup almost gone........

A silver Ford Van Large style with Texas plates......seemed to have helped him get away.

If you want more details feel free to call or message back. Just be so careful. I don't know why he picked us. All I can think of is that my daughter had walked out with one of the dogs to get the mail today and they could have seen her. Maybe not. We will be locking the door and taking keys out of the vehicles for a long time to come.

My daughter has now been lectured again not to open the door to strangers even with the dogs barking by her side like mad. I told her if his hand can fit in the door they can grab you.! Horrible to think about and she is terrified now. All for the best. We must keep the children safe. So sorry to spoil and innocent childhood, better to be on guard than not to have a childhood at all...

He may have been scoping out the houses to see which one looked right. There have been many burglaries in surrounding towns.......

I won't forget his face, the cloths he wore, the "expensive watch".....supposedly, you have an expensive watch? Why are you selling books and magazines? For all I know the watch is a fake......looking him dead in the eyes.........wouldn't write his name on my message book........wouldn't shake my hand........nor look me in the eyes any more.

Yup, I'm scared now.