Thursday, the 28th of December,
was so fucking surreal.
What a way to end this Year.
First of all the 28th was very anticipated,for two months we knew this was my mom's moving day. She had been packing her life in cardboard boxes for over a month prior to this day.The anxiety in this house was palpable leading up to this. On Wednesday we loaded up the truck.My sisters nieces and nephews brother in laws,all came to move moms stuff..And our front yard was taken over by a big ass budget moving truck and we all had to maneuver around the stupid metal plank resting on our front porch leading to the truck where we loaded mom's things.After this I was exhausted running on nervous anxiety.Sleep was not easy.
We were up again way too early on Thursday . Up before the sun helping as mom was preparing herself for a 7 hour drive to her new home..She was gathering the last few things,as I got my groggy ass out of bed,and dressed .It was dark as we sipped coffee and soda and talked,waiting for the dawn to break so mom could go,and drive safely.
My brother in law was to start and go later with the moving truck after mom had already left.But things NEVER go as planned.
My partner saw a state cop car,drive by in the dark..no big deal... right?.
Than another state cop car,than an unmarked car blue light flashing barricaded our driveway . Shit. We got a bit worried. The dawn broke..We wondered if mom was even going to be able to move out. Than more cars came,soon official vehicles lined the street, ambulances, fire trucks, our street was barricaded with roadblocks and clusters of emergency vehicles. I was uneasy at what sounded like a fighter jet flew over as I took my morning pee in the bathroom.I was resigned to the fact that this was going to be a helluva crazy day.
Back in the Living room I noticed a few guys who looked like SWAT ran past,A couple of guys pulled up in in a big car and pulled out a riot shields from the car trunk and ran,and soon came even more people..Than came Military guys running past the house in a loose formations in full camo with full packs on,even canteens and carrying assault rifles.As 2 more camo clad dudes walked past carrying..2 Surveyors plumbs and tripods..Hoooly shit what the fuck was happening. I was too damn tired to feel paranoid..
Next there came what looked like ,FBI perhaps. We all were about to die of the sheer curiosity just watching all this rom the window,so My partner decided to ask the nearest cop at the end of the driveway what this was all about .Meanwhile my mom got a call on her cell from my brother in law, who was to drive the big ass moving truck,complaining the road was blocked off.
The cop told my partner that some lame bullshit that our neighbor was going to hurt himself,and that we should stay inside. Riiight..My mom was practically camping on the front porch rubbernecking.We began to fear getting shot at and we both told my mom to get inside.She didn't listen of course.
My partner didn't press the cop for more answers since there were alot of armed yahoos running around outside the house. My partner and I went downstairs and turned on the news. Nothing about this.
My mom came downstairs and told us my brother in law was going to try to get access through this mess to go.(fat chance!)Amazingly my brother in law arrived at the house!!!??!(How?) My brother in law told us he had talked to some cops and convinced them to let him in past the big barricade to get my mom and the moving truck out.
I kissed my Mom the last time and hugged her goodbye as she hopped in her car and my brother in law started to move the big ass moving truck parked in our front yard.The cop moved aside than my partner moved his car out of the way in the yard to let my mom out of the driveway.. and just like that... they were off.
My crazy brother in law drove the moving truck all the way down my street in reverse, beeping, squeezing past police cars and fire trucks with my mom following right behind him. My mom left town by a police escort.. What a send off. ..
Tears welled up as I watched mom's car disappear in a wall of ambulances and trucks....Than the scene of what was happening got me paranoid and got the cat carriers out and ready to go and got some shit together,in case there was an evacuation.
I think mom could not have had a better send off because Mom LOVED to watch her cop shows, news programs,disaster and crime stories. Everyday she watched this kind of stuff on TV and she gave herself anxiety nightmares watching all those shows of gruesome killings,rapes strange medical disasters and true crimes on TV as she fell asleep..
So it's ironic that the ONE DAY when something exciting happens here, that too much just like her made for TV nightmares... when there is more chaos in my sleepy suburb since I can't remember when. The kind of"excitement" that she would speculate on the phone with her old lady friends about for MONTHS,happens on the day she is moving out of town.
Mom is leaving because all her friends who are her age around here,are all dying off. She has faced 4 deaths of acquaintances, a sister and friends. in a year.. She is over 70 years old now. She wants to be with her sisters she grew up with while they are still here and healthy.I don't blame her.She left us the house here which I will be ever grateful for.
After my mom left, and I shed a few tears and shook the stress out of my bones. I sat with my partner on the living room couch covered with cats watching the chaos from the picture window listening to the Ipod. It was empty ,depressing,surreal ,funny as shit,scary as hell,anxious and chaotic all at the same time.A very strange situation and weird state of mind to be in .I had slept very little in the past few days.So I wasn't exactly with it either..We sat and more hours passed.It was an awful grey day. Surreal all the way.
Soon the detectives began to leave . I felt relief as I watched all the swat and army guys go back into their trucks,and cars ,the cops,the firetrucks,ambulances pull out..Than...I saw it..a bomb robot( it looked like a army green mini tank thing) cruise by on a flatbed truck...
Nothing blew up.No evacuation.Shooo.
This all happened just 3 houses downwind from mine.After the whole thing was over, my partner and I hopped in the car (to get food we were too exhausted to cook) and to get to Panera we drove past the epicenter of where it was all happened,
I noticed the neighbor who allegedly was "suicidal" lived right across from the municipal water tower pump station thingy.Was this nut going to poison our water? The neighbors backyard was rutted with tire tracks in insane donuts.Footprints ,gouges in the lawn grass and stirred up leaves was all that remained of this craziness along with a baby blue empty unmarked car sitting in front of the chain across the driveway of the water pump station..We had all kinds of thoughts in our woozy heads,it was all upsetting.
Over lunch,we began to speculate and share our thoughts both sane and tin foiled.. We remembered how some racist jackass from National Alliance leafleted our street in the dead of night with racist anti-war leaflets that promoted Answer Coalition and asking for people to join National Alliance.We wondered if they were making bombs or stockpiling weapons. Did we have Waco in Abingdon? Wonder & wondering..
Carl wrote about the leafleting to Unknown News's Dialog too.
http://www.unknownnews.net/d0704.html#cp2Sad thing is we probably will never really know what all this shit was all about.But,I am gonna try to find out. I am a cat and cats are curious.If I do find out after I tell all to mom, it will be on Unknown News.
So,this is Panther's life in Bizarro World at the end of 2005 . Damn..
As for 2006, looks like it's already freaking me out.
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