Yeah. I'll admit my mind pretty immediately slipped into some victim-blaming: "Why in hell did she let him in, when he'd broken into her house in the past??" I quit it, though. Maybe she let him in because her past experiences with him led her to believe that any resistance would enrage him and that if she just let him come in and talk he'd calm down and leave.
Spare keys... yes. I always carry a spare in my wallet/planner, but it's a "goddamn it I hate it when I lock my keys in the car" thing, not a "I'm going to be attacked and will need the spare key to make my escape."
... and the guy was waiting on her doorstep when the police got there. The combination of "high penchant for violence" with "not right in the head" just scares the living hell out of me.
i kinda had both voices in my head at once: there's the one that things "jeez, why would she let him in?" but then there's the other one that remembers how violence could sometimes be averted by just acting calm and pretending everything was okay until an "out" presented itself. :\
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Date: 2005-07-13 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-14 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-14 02:48 pm (UTC)Spare keys... yes. I always carry a spare in my wallet/planner, but it's a "goddamn it I hate it when I lock my keys in the car" thing, not a "I'm going to be attacked and will need the spare key to make my escape."
... and the guy was waiting on her doorstep when the police got there. The combination of "high penchant for violence" with "not right in the head" just scares the living hell out of me.
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Date: 2005-07-14 02:55 pm (UTC)