Freaked

[captain_slinky]

khristle found a baby doll stuck behind our back tire, and she's severely freaked-out by it. She thinks it's some sort of message from someone saying that they're going to kill our baby or something.

I personally would have just taken it as some stupid teenager finding a Baby Doll in the garage somewhere and going "Huh huh huh... I'm gonna stick this behind someone's tire and then they'll run over it and they'll think they ran over a baby huh huh huh", but nw she's got ME freaked-out a well. After all, we're the neighbors who will call the police if you're having a fight with your boyfriend at midnight outside our window (like we did last night)! We're the neighbors who will have your guest towed if they park in our parking spot (have done this so many time I can't even count)! We've always feared retribution...

Do you think someone's trying to put a scare in us?

Comments

[teegin.livejournal.com]

My guess would be it fell and landed there or kids were playing around the car and it got left behind by accident. You could always put up a little flyer/poster with a pic of the doll saying "found". Might just make someones day. Now if it were a horse head in your bed then I would get concerned.

[khristle.livejournal.com]

No, it was very clearly placed there. It was wedged up tight against the tire in a sitting up position. It was naked and the head was scuffed up.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

First time's Accident. Second time's Coincidence. Third time's Conspiracy.

So would this be first, second, or third?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Depends... do I count the guy in the baby Doll mask that keeps following me everywhere?

[bjorker.livejournal.com]

This is kinda-sorta related and kinda-sorta not... but a good opportunity to say something that's on my mind. :P

Would you guys be interested in moving into the lower level of our house? heh. I'm not clear on the details yet, but it'd probably be around $600/mo. Maybe less if you'd have to pay much of the utilities. I haven't actually seen it down there (our landlord was keeping it separate for his use, although he's rarely around and thus thinking of renting it out). I'm pretty sure that it's just a 1br, but it seems like a decent amount of space. And of course your own kitchen and bathroom, and all that. I mean, it's an entirely separate living quarters. Might even come with a double garage, but I'm unsure about that too. It even feels very separate from the rest of the house, as the lower level is accessed from the right side of the house, and we're pretty much on the left side. And while the yard would still be technically ours, I have no problem sharing it.

Anyway, if you're genuinely interested, I can find out some more info. Our landlord is pretty cool and only wanted to rent it out if we could find somebody that we're comfortable with. Gotta respect that.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

HELLS YEAH we'd be interested!!! Let's see... what else would I need to know?

Are you guys smokers/drinkers/anythingelsers that we should be concerned about?

Pets OK? 2 cats...

Uhmmmm...

Can't think of anything else right now! ut yes, YES INDEED e are interested! More info, please!!!

[khristle.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOH! We could build forts in the little woods behind the house! And Aurelia and Molly could be buddies :) Yes, please find out more. I hate this apartment and my neighbors.

[d-a-r-a.livejournal.com]

Sans a threatening note attached to the baby doll saying something to the effect of "if you call the cops on us again we're gonna get you" or Molly's name written on the baby doll in permanent marker or something....I'm going with it probably just got dropped there or your stupid teenager suggestion. And even if someone was trying to put the scare in you...that's probably all they'd be trying to do...very few people would go so far as to even think about actually following through on such a thing merely hoping that the threat would get you to comply. And again - it if was a threat - well, pretty sure the person would have tried to indicate what it was they wanted you to stop doing otherwise a threat is pretty pointless.

[collisions.livejournal.com]

Baby doll with pins shoved in it propped on your windshield, you have to start wondering. But baby doll under your tire? That would be a very poor way to put a scare in you.

Seriously, if you were trying to freak out neighbors who were irritating, would you rely on a vaguely symbolistic action that's likely to be missed entirely or assumed to be a kid losing it or the older sibling of said kid being a brat?

So I'm sticking with kid/brat.

[khristle.livejournal.com]

I think it was some sort of punk kid, but it was still pretty freaky. I mean, the baby was naked and very clearly staged against our tire. It just brought to mind every horror movie that I've ever seen where people would dismiss little signs of the horrors to come.

[amberlorien.livejournal.com]

I guess it does depend a bit on your neighborhood but I'd first guess it was a prank.

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Never can be too sure. You should immediately begin emplacing claymore mines around your apartment to fend off the assault by the savage unwashed.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Actually, I found the best way to deal with this is to just wait till the wee hours of the morning, put on my clown mask, stealthily break in to all the neighors apartments and slit their throats while they sleep. I'm half-way through the "K" building now, think I'll hop over to the "M" building just to sort of mix things up a bit...

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

See, and when I saw that you had commented, I thought to myself "Thank god! He'll be a voice of reason ..."

So. That didn't really work out for me.

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

I'm figuring he'll at least have to start liquidating his storage locker on ebay in order to pick up an array of antipersonnel weapons. I'm pretty sure that's one of Bush's Thousand Points of Light.

Or who knows, maybe he'll take me as the voice of reason and rule out whatever I suggest on those grounds. :-)