I especially like when a neighborhood has an ADP contract. Homeowners have so much trust in ADP, a company whose main product is a 911 auto-dialer that a ten-year-old can disarm in five minutes.
People also trust their dogs, like Dakota the flabrador is some kind of attack animal. I bring along a Ziploc of fentanyl-laced hamburgers and have never seen it fail.
Other tools of my trade include duct tape and a two-pound sledge head for smashing glass, a stiff putty knife, wire for jumping the alarm.
Gated communities are the easiest because nobody locks their doors.
Trust is dangerous.
You know the tricks of your trade and seem to be well prepared.
If you hold an open tin can to the glass and tap with a rubber mallet the glass is just as broken, and the noise minimal..
Hmmm. True. Know what’s also true? I don’t think I like ‘you’ (narrator) much. …
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Well done on the prompt.
Trust is dangerous and you have portrayed the career thief brilliantly
Nice, taking the POV of the burglar. I like his self-congratulatory attitude, implying, that it is hardly his fault. People are just the victims of their own stupidity.
That’s it, we live in a burglars hooligans world whereby “people are just victims of their own stupidity”. I hate this post. Very well done for sending a message, i.e. don’t trust anyone, lock your doors. Sad. (from threefoldtwenty dotcom)
Oh my. Where you should be the safest, you still aren’t. Locking our doors is such a habit, and after reading your story I hope it’s enough. Probably not.
Clever title. And the narrative voice is very good – makes me loathe and admire him(?) at the same time.