I know Moore very well, and when at the time of the article date, Moore wasn't much bigger than the town we are in now! It was still small enough that it was very separate from Norman and OKC (these days, if it wasn't or the signs, you can't tell when you are driving out of one into the other).

Sad thing is, DH has explained all of this to her before...that even though we are out in the sticks, it is still a neighborhood here...a neighborhood of 1.x-acre lots, but a neighborhood none the less. It started out a very nice area for manufactured homes...the ones that actually cost something. Our homes used to have to meet certain requirements for siding, how they were skirted, roof overhang, etc. They wanted manufactured homes that were as close to houses as possible. However, the original owner of the unsold property went belly up (not enough people were buying out this way), and the management company that bought up the property started selling to any kind of home...just to get the lots sold and make up the money. There is very literally a lot out here that someone made a crappy attempt to build a tree-house as a home, and now the lot is just covered with junk and deserted. We also now have used single-wide metal trailers on some lots, etc. Some folks went belly up, and their homes got picked up by landlords that just rent the places out. Now, it hasn't gone "ghetto" quite yet, but surely not the caliper it used to be. There have been some shady elements living out here! As I've mentioned a couple of times...there was this kid in BD23's class in school who was burglarizing houses out here. He didn't hit up our house, but he did approach BD23 when she worked at GameStop to get rid of some stuff for him, claiming it was his. I thought is fishy, and BD23 and I went to his house when he wasn't there and talked to his mom, who confirmed that the stuff was stolen. She went into his room and found all kinds of other stolen stuff, and called the cops on him that evening and had him arrested. He got out a couple of years ago...and last year, stabbed his step-dad to death over a cat...he found a stray that was ill and wanted to take it to the vet, his parents didn't have the money for it and when his step-dad refused to give him the money, he stabbed him to death right there in front of his mom and his younger brother!

Then, there was the guy right across the street from us who was living with his grandparents. He used to ride around the neighborhood on his lawnmower drunk (yeah, every time I saw him, I thought Waterboy). He was a bit of a joke, until he started showing up on my porch after DH would leave for work...trying to claim he could cut our yard for us, but you could tell he was trying to see in our house and see who else was here with me (as he had seen BS19 around, and knew he wasn't a small boy). Dude freaked me out, and I had to report him to the cops a couple of times...so did another neighbor of mine who is an older woman who lives with just her sister and dogs. He later started to break into houses that people had moved out of or who's owners were gone for a long time (he broke into our neighbor's house when he was away doing some drill or something for the military for a couple of weeks). He was finally arrested, but I've recently seen him back at his grandparents.

Yeah, just because we are out in the country, doesn't mean it is safe from criminals or sick people. SD15 doesn't seem to care! I don't know if she just has such a lack of care for anyone or anything, or she is just too lazy to care. Like I said, DH has brought up the issue before, and tried to explain to her what could happen if she walked in on a burglar or something, but she still will not lock that door! That's also why it freaked me out so bad when I found the back door unlocked, and why I'm determined to put an end to her using that door to sneak out!

I'll have to look for that in our policy. Another good point!

You know the girl Ally Sheedy played on The Breakfast Club? SD15 is like her in a way. Remember she dumped this purse/bag she had, and everything but the bath tub and kitchen sink was on the couch? SD15 has a similar kind of bag she takes everywhere. She keeps her straightener, makeup she cares about (anything that is lying around her room is stuff she really doesn't care about...it is the backup makeup, because she got something better), her iPod, her tablet (apparently it still works sometimes), extra clothing...I swear the girl is ready to jump ship at any time...and I often wish she would...lol. So I don't know if there is anything in that room I could make disappear that she would notice. She would probably think she just misplaced it, and go on...like she always does when she really does misplace stuff. Oh, it's lost under the pile...she will just ask for a new whatever rather than actually cleaning up to look for the one she already has.

For a brief moment I thought, "Hmmm, should go trash her room like an intruder would trash the house." But then I remembered, her room always looks like that, so she wouldn't even notice.