{"id":3930,"date":"2016-11-16T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:04","slug":"am-i-paranoid-or-should-i-be-more-vigilant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/am-i-paranoid-or-should-i-be-more-vigilant\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I paranoid, or should I be more vigilant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I paranoid, or should I be more vigilant?<\/p>\n


We were walking home from the store, and a gray\/silver SUV drives past, and parks on the side of the road about a hundred feet ahead of us.<\/p>\n

My internal alarms went on high-alert, and when we started approaching and I saw that there was exhaust coming out of the exhaust pipe — signaling the car was on but in park — I told the Kid to cross the street and walk on my other side. As we approached the point where we would have been able to see the driver, the vehicle — moving pretty fast for a 25mph zone — started moving and turned into the long church driveway. It drove halfway up and stopped there, waiting.<\/p>\n

But it was pretty obvious that’s not where the driver wanted to be, as when another car turned in there had to be some odd maneuvering to get out of the way.<\/p>\n

I feel like the driver didn’t want me to see who they are.<\/p>\n

Which — considering I’ve been talking about that weird black truck crawling by my house a few times, and the car that drove by taking pictures of my house (the Kid was scared and told me what he saw) — I’m getting spooked.<\/p>\n

Seriously, if I get hate-crimed or serial killed, it’s all the same when I’m dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I paranoid, or should I be more vigilant? We were walking home from the store, and a gray\/silver SUV drives past, and parks on the side of the road about a hundred feet ahead of us. My internal alarms went on high-alert, and when we started approaching and I saw that there was exhaust…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> Am I paranoid, or should I be more vigilant?<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[239,720],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-of-the-day","tag-creeps","tag-the-wiggins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-11o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2438,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/attack-of-the-self-entitled-woman\/","url_meta":{"origin":3930,"position":0},"title":"Attack of the Self-Entitled Woman","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My brother is pretty heated right now. 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