Close Calls
Nov. 7th, 2021 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI have two unrelated things for ya.
One - I ran my half marathon in 2:11:01 - it was a little off my goal time, but still a significant improvement. I gave it everything I had, so I'm happy. I also didn't stop for a cinnamon roll, but I did get a chocolate and hazelnut mousse "acorn" at the Riviera, with a white chocolate shell, chocolate cap, and it was served on a cinnamon graham cookie. It was delicious.
Two - When I was in college, I knew an older guy who told me a story about growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. This would have been in the late sixties, and he lived with his mom. I forget what happened to his dad, but it's immaterial to the story. He and his mom were listening to a TV news report one night about violent attacks against women in the area, and his mom told him to go check that the back door was locked. He went to the door and turned the knob a little to check, and at the same time, he felt someone on the other side of the door also trying to turn the knob. The door was locked, but you know how you can still jiggle the knobs. Anyway it scared the living hell out of him.
I got curious about this and did a little research, and it turns out that at the time he was talking about, there was an active serial killer in Memphis. George Putt wound up dying in prison since the death penalty was overturned during his trial, but it's entirely possible he was the one testing the doorknob. It fits with the MO of some of his previous attacks, and Memphis was in an uproar over the murders.
So anyway, I'm going to just try to nap a bit before the after party event in Epcot, then we head home tomorrow. I'll edit a set of photos once PhotoPass processes all my race pics. We didn't take quite as many pics around the parks because they're in between holidays right now, so in some places Christmas stuff is up, and some of it isn't.
One - I ran my half marathon in 2:11:01 - it was a little off my goal time, but still a significant improvement. I gave it everything I had, so I'm happy. I also didn't stop for a cinnamon roll, but I did get a chocolate and hazelnut mousse "acorn" at the Riviera, with a white chocolate shell, chocolate cap, and it was served on a cinnamon graham cookie. It was delicious.
Two - When I was in college, I knew an older guy who told me a story about growing up in Memphis, Tennessee. This would have been in the late sixties, and he lived with his mom. I forget what happened to his dad, but it's immaterial to the story. He and his mom were listening to a TV news report one night about violent attacks against women in the area, and his mom told him to go check that the back door was locked. He went to the door and turned the knob a little to check, and at the same time, he felt someone on the other side of the door also trying to turn the knob. The door was locked, but you know how you can still jiggle the knobs. Anyway it scared the living hell out of him.
I got curious about this and did a little research, and it turns out that at the time he was talking about, there was an active serial killer in Memphis. George Putt wound up dying in prison since the death penalty was overturned during his trial, but it's entirely possible he was the one testing the doorknob. It fits with the MO of some of his previous attacks, and Memphis was in an uproar over the murders.
So anyway, I'm going to just try to nap a bit before the after party event in Epcot, then we head home tomorrow. I'll edit a set of photos once PhotoPass processes all my race pics. We didn't take quite as many pics around the parks because they're in between holidays right now, so in some places Christmas stuff is up, and some of it isn't.
same here
Date: 2021-11-08 12:37 am (UTC)enjoy the party!
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Date: 2021-11-08 07:38 pm (UTC)Wow - that's an interesting memory! That would've thoroughly scared me as well. Goes along with the whole 'looking out the window at night & seeing someone else looking in' thing. Nightmares!
I don't understand what motivates people to do such terrible things like that. I mean one minute a person is behaving normally then for whatever reason, suddenly gets the urge to go do something very not normal. I guess that's what makes me afraid of people. You never really know what they're gonna do.