Does paranoia make us more prepared?

[Perrone]

I dont smoke cigarettes and never have,neither does anybody in my family, but my dad did when I was growing up and my nose is so sensitive to the smell that I can literally smell someone smoking a cigarette outside my house from inside my house. Im also sensitive to any burning smells as Im super paranoid about any type of burning smells and the possibility of a fire starting some where in the house. I dont have many fears but having a fire break out in my house then would be number one if I had one. Fire extinguishers are all thru the house and smoke alarms are in all rooms. The wife burns a candle back in her bedroom and the minute she lights it Im knocking on her door asking if shes burning something. I make all of our friends and family or all of my musician friends who come to my studio to work step outside to smoke a cig and I can still smell it inside so I know this for a fact. I also know if I ever smell a cigarette late at night when no one is here then there is someone some where outside my house that aint supposed to be there. Crooks who smoke and decide to sneak up on me outside my house have just given themselves away as far as Im concerned.

A few nights ago I was up late like usual working on something out in my shop/studio/rehearsal space and smelled cigarette smoke just outside my side door. It was about 4am and that didnt seem right. We're in a small nothing ever happens town 20 miles east of a large city. Our neighborhood is super quiet late at night,borderline creepy its so quiet, and no one is hardly ever up late at night but me. I grabbed Mr .45 sitting near me and went thru the house going out my back door ala Edgar Allen Poes "Tell Tale Heart" style creeping around in the dark in my back yard like Ive done a million times late at nights not knowing who is out there waiting on me to come out. Got my eyes adjusted to the dark. Came to the side door and no one there yet. Im sniffing around for the cig smoker,went around the side of the yard to the gate,slowly opened it,made my way on the edge of the front yard between my house and my neighbors house so I didnt trip my driveways sensitive motion lights. Got to the curb,and theres this dude sitting on the curb on my side of the street smoking a cig. The neighbors who live next door are partyers kind of but theyre good people who all work hard and we've always been social and friendly and their front door was open with just the TV on in their living room.

I said hey and he said whats up,hehe he saw the pistol in my hand and asked what was up with that and I said I smelled smoke and went to look around my yard to see who was there. He said oops, his aunt,my neighbor,who he was visiting for the weekend, told him not to smoke on her porch so he went to sit on the curb. I said cool not a problem and to have a nice smoke and we said goodnights.

Me paranoid? Yep.

Sounds a little more like crazy than paranoid

Cigarette smoke smells nothing like anything on fire...even though that sounds stupid I think you get my point.

 

[338Shooter]

Cigarette smoke smells like cigarettes on fire.

 

[fire65]

I just leave all the nighttime guarding to my dog, she doesn't miss anything.

 

[repete34]

Paranoia
[par-uh-noi-uh] Show IPA
–noun
1.
Psychiatry . a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
2.
baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.

Preperation and awareness are not the same thing.

If you have a mental condition, and it is paranoia. Have someone collect your firearms, knives and other sharp objects, while you are going to see a doctor.

 

[Danny]

I don't know about being more prepared. But at least it makes one think of possibilities. Unlike wandering around with their head stuck up their caboose, like most liberals.

 

[nofearfactor]

Sounds a little more like crazy than paranoid.

Im ok with that. Been said before. Doesnt bother me one bit. Especially coming from the nuts on this board. As well as some of the other **** youve said to me in the past.

The point I was trying to make though is that something out of the usual happens around me its best for me and my own sense of security to check it out and make sure. What you do for you is for you and what I do for me is for me.

Whether its merely just a candle being lit in another room and me smelling the wood of a match burning and wondering what is burning some where in the house or me smelling cigarette smoke right outside my door at 4am when Im the only one up working and the neighbors are asleep.

Another instance. None of my people come to our house ever without calling first. My wife was in the hospital and I was sleeping like I do during the daytime hours and someone raps on my front door without ringing the doorbell. I get up and with my gun behind my back,look out thru the peephole,and its no one I know. With all of the home invasions and daytime burglaries going on next door in Tulsa I have to wonder wtf is this person. I answer the door,gun behind my back,and its a husband of one of my wifes church buddy bringing food while shes in the hospital. She didnt let me know he was coming,he didnt call,I had to think the worst first. I let him in and then casually put my pistol on the coffee table and helped him with the box of food, and didnt notice him seeing me putting the gun on the table. I dont go to church there too. Im notoriously agnostic. I play rock music for a living and am covered in tattoos. This man doesnt know me. I dont know him .He hurried and got the hell out of there though and a little later my wife called saying her friend called her and said I answered the door with a gun. Yes I did. She said it freaked him out. He doesnt own guns and isnt accustomed to seeing them. Word got all around the church about it pretty fast. Now people joke with my wife about ' definitely making sure that they call first' before they come by to see the wife.

So whatever makes you feel safe.

 

[Perrone]

Im ok with that. Been said before. Doesnt bother me one bit. Especially coming from the nuts on this board. As well as some of the other **** youve said to me in the past.

Aww No hard feelings man, it's all in fun It it's not crazy I'm just messin' with ya

 

[nofearfactor]

Aww No hard feelings man, it's all in fun It it's not crazy I'm just messin' with ya

Coolio here.

Happy Thanksgiving. Everyone be safe today.

 

[RWS]

He probably thought his aunt was living next door to a nutbird gun freak.

you say that like its a bad thing. lol

 

[bettingpython]

Paranoia is an unstable mental state, no paranoia here, just the old boy scout motto kicking in, "be prepared".