260722 Into the Dark

I got over to the old folks home, but there were still workers in the building. I wanted to wait until they left because having my pillow and blankets in my hands would have been too obvious as to what my intentions were.

I remembered that I could see a light left on in the back side of the home. That will give me electricity to run my laptop.

The workers finally left and sadly they locked the doors. I hadn’t actually counted the number of rooms in the complex, but there had to be at least one that had been left open. I’ll go around the building until I find an unlocked window. There are far more than a hundred rooms in that place!

I finally found an open window, I tossed my gear in and before I could climb in myself, I saw a police car making its rounds. I dove into a large shrubbery to hide. I thought they might have spotted me, but the car kept rolling around the complex. I got through the window and grabbed my stuff and went to find the room that always had a light on. I plugged in my laptop to charge it and decided to go to the store for some cold beer.

It was a good thing I had brought my cane, as I stepped out of the beer store two nefarious characters wanted my beer. It has been 46 years since Annie and I took our Karate and weapons training, but some lessons learned and still practiced are worth their weight in gold. I used my cane like a staff, a couple of jabs, followed by two baseball swings and I walked back to the home, beer in hand. The nefarians were laying on the driveway when last I looked over there.