I'm Not Nosy, I'm A Concerned Citizen Part 2!

As we are nearing the end of this deployment, I find myself a little more "concerned" than normal. Granted I have spent the better part of 8 months alone, with little or no adult contact on a daily basis.

On a normal day, when life gets to monotonous, you can find me in the front yard, people watching. I prefer to call myself the head of the Neighborhood Watch Program.

Today is a good example. My youngest and I were outside socializing with our neighbor, who I wil refer to as the VP of the NWP.
My VP and I were sitting there catching up on the neighborhood intelligence briefings (gossip), when we notice 2 teenage boys cutting through the housing area.
At first, we didn't think much of it, but then they started to look back, look around the houses and glace seemingly in the cars. We then realize they are supposed to be in school. So we did what any rational busybody would do, we called the police!
Granted I didn't call 911, and request a swat team or anything crazy. But I did call the non-emergency dispatch number. About 20 min. later, we just knew the boys had gone on a crime spree and were to never be seen again. But...they're back??

So my V.P. stops them and ask them a few basic questions. Where do you live? What are you doing? Most importantly, why aren't you in school? Oh yeah...we got you truants now! They are explaining "poorly" why they weren't in school when the police pull up. They question the boys, and it is revealed they were just skipping school and apparently aren't very good at it.

After it was all nearly over with, another neighbor has joined in the chaos. Her first thought, was that I had gone off the deep end and the police were called. I would find that insulting, but lets be honest, I've been waiting for the police to come for me for a long time now.

I thought about the occurence later, and think, maybe the boys were looking back because there were 2 crazy old women starting at them?

So you may call us nosy. But I call us potential hero's! We could have just saved the world from teenagers who could have done, maybe a 1/4 of the stupid crap I did at that age. So to that I say YOU'RE WELCOME!

They will think twice before skipping school in this neighborhood!