Paranoia

[perzephone]

Ok, so I know it's ludicrus.. (sp very ??), but I have harbored this suspicion that someone else lives in this house. Like there's an actual guy living in the walls who takes stuff and breaks stuff. He opens doors & windows, turns lights on & off, you name it. He had the PS2 out one night & was playing with it. Generally, he's an okay roommate except for the taking/breaking. But he takes weird shit. Like this balloon. Rob got his dad some balloons to give to the m.i.l. for her birthday. She gave them back to Rob for Halloween. They've been remarkably persistent balloons - one is still flying high. The other one is black & has a bunch of eyeballs on it & the word "Boo!" scattered across it. That one had lost just enough helium so it had begun to lurk lower to the ground. The last balloon that had reached that point suffered a bad scissor-induced death by my hands, so Rob told me this one was off-limits, & I respected those wishes as long as he kept it locked up while I was sleeping.

Anyway, the balloon has disappeared, and I didn't kill it & then hide the evidence. It has literally disappeared. We have looked everywhere in the house, even places a balloon (even one that was sort of drifting at floor level) couldn't go, and it's gone. Totally gone.

I think the guy who lives in the walls took it.