My wife and I rented a house in what we thought was a good neighborhood We were there for only a couple of months before we were burglarized Who ever it was kicked in the side door into the garage And since we never locked the door from the house to the garage It was an easy way in They didn’t take much The Xbox The laptop But it was the fact that someone broke into our home that ****** me off That had never happened to me before We figured it was someone that was watching the house They had broke in at exactly the time we would be out
We had bought our daughter her first bike that year for Christmas A Dora themed bike with training wheels glittery tassels And a bell that hardly worked I had taken her out riding in the cul de sac Down the street we went Me by her side
That’s when I see this little Mexican lady She’s coming out of this house And she has this look on her face I didn’t know right then what that look was Only that it was familiar It was only later did I realize it was shame
This house I had been suspicious of Ever since we had been burglarized Cars pulling up to the house Idling Someone goes in quick and comes back out just as fast The car takes off Drugs deals going on there daily
I had thought for months That if anyone stole anything from our house They had something to do with this house Just my gut telling me things
So then this little mexican lady shuffles to the end of the cul de sac To the gate where she meets this guy He passes something over the fence to her but I can’t tell what it is I’m busy with my daughter going the opposite way down the street By the time I turn around and head back to our house The guy Young guy about 25 And the woman are walking toward me We just so happen to be passing in front of the drug house at the same time Him going in one direction Me in another
And there he is Holding in both of his arms A backpack with a small flat screen tv The cords wrapped around it It’s the afternoon In complete and unmasked daylight I just watch him This look of “what the ****” on my face
What’s up man he says Nothing I say Just seeing you walk into that house with stolen merchandise I know I shouldn’t have said anything I should have just kept my mouth shut But that voice in my head was shouting This is the ******* right here! Well he didn’t like that What said that to him
What business is it of yours Are you a ******* cop I could have got this at the pawn shop And on and on He’s coming closer to me Me and my daughter I tried to ignore him Tried to walk away But he just kept coming The woman Who I think was his mom She was telling him, “la nina, la nina” He just shrugged her off and kept coming Kept cussing at me Who the **** do you think you are
I think it was the papa bear in me The papa bear that’s in every father Every parent when their child is in perceived danger ******* you don’t know who your ******* with I say I’ll ******* up This is where he starts to back up But I’m not finished
I’m going to take me daughter to my house Meet me there so I can kick your ******* *** He’s all the way to the front door by this time His mother trying to push him into the house Him with a look of “what the ****” on his face
I take my little girl back to the house I go and sit down on the trunk of my car Waiting Someone comes out of the house and looks in me direction
I’m right here I say My arms raised up to the sky Moments later my wife comes out What are you doing? You’re not a teenager Do you want to lose job And on and on until I completely feel like a five year old Dejected Until finally I get off my *** Walking behind my wife into the house I take one last look toward the drug house but there’s no one there
Later when I calmed down My wife tells that when she asked my daughter where I was She said I was outside That I was speaking some other language to some man down the street