Halloween sucked

1911Fanatic · Nov 1, 2025

It all started off in the morning. I took my mom to her cancer surgery. I had stopped out before I took her and got an egg McMuffin type thing from dairy mart. We go to the surgery center. And then about 15 minutes later, I am in the bathroom. Diarrhea and vomiting.

While I'm in the bathroom, someone try's to keypad the door and get in. I had it locked. I said it's busy. Not even a minute later they are trying to get in again. It's occupied I yelled.

I am sitting in there not having a good time time, and the person is at it again. It's busy I yelled so bubblegum off and leave me alone. I was in there for 20 minutes. When I got out, I went to the desk where my mom is still filling out her forms and I tell the woman at the desk. I said you have no barf bags in there you are out of the them. So say says, "oh, do you need a sick bag?" I looked at her and grinned and said "not anymore."

So I go back home while my mom is in surgery. It's going to be four hours and my wife will pick her up. I am feeling like absolute bubblegum. I am in bed for an hour and the door bell rings. I get up and it's the mail carrier. She brings me my mail and says someone ripped the back panel off the mailbox (which serves our whole street) and she says your mail will be at the post office. We will try to get it fixed Monday or Tuesday. She didn't have much mail with her. So I know I am missing some mail, likely my VA meds too.

But wait, it gets better….

I was sick in bed all day. About 3am my dog, who sleeps with me, jumps off the bed and races toward the door. I heard rumbling outside. I grabbed my pistol and went to have a look. I open the door, there is nobody there, but I hear someone running down the street. I opened the door because I was gonna turn my pit bull loose on them. But they ran off the second they heard her menacing bark.

My trash cans are on my front porch by my door in front of a window. It's the only window that opens. The big one next to it facing the street does not open. They had rearranged my trash cans trying to get through the window. Some years back, in the 90's when my mom lived here, someone broke that window out, crawled through and stole all the Christmas presents.

So, yeah, it was a fun day…

1911Fanatic · Nov 1, 2025

The fun part is if they take my VA meds hoping to get high, it will probably kill them. I hope they do, and it does. They won't know how to take it, or how little to start with. And yes it can get you feeling high. But if they take too much, Narcan won't save them. It's not an Opioid. But too much can cause CNS problems and respiratory depression.

Camelfilter · Nov 1, 2025

Bummer! Sorry you got the food poisoning!!

On scumbags: Cameras.

Not as an end all be all. Just simply another layer of whatever security you all have.

With them set up reasonably well, you can both ID & see who/what/where, without even getting up.

There are cameras now that you can simply stick on the inside of windows to see the window view. Wifi.

While wired cameras are best, WiFi are simple & easy to setup. In minutes. Depends how decent & stable your interwebs connection is. If a large home, may need a WiFi signal booster. Have one in our Garage/Shop, works very well was $27. Went from 1 WiFi bar/no WiFi bars in the garage/shop to full bars.

Window cam view (stuck to inside of a window), a few moments ago...

Ducati_Meister · Nov 1, 2025

1911Fanatic said:
It all started off in the morning. I took my mom to her cancer surgery. I had stopped out before I took her and got an egg McMuffin type thing from dairy mart. We go to the surgery center. And then about 15 minutes later, I am in the bathroom. Diarrhea and vomiting.

While I'm in the bathroom, someone try's to keypad the door and get in. I had it locked. I said it's busy. Not even a minute later they are trying to get in again. It's occupied I yelled.

I am sitting in there not having a good time time, and the person is at it again. It's busy I yelled so bubblegum off and leave me alone. I was in there for 20 minutes. When I got out, I went to the desk where my mom is still filling out her forms and I tell the woman at the desk. I said you have no barf bags in there you are out of the them. So say says, "oh, do you need a sick bag?" I looked at her and grinned and said "not anymore."

So I go back home while my mom is in surgery. It's going to be four hours and my wife will pick her up. I am feeling like absolute bubblegum. I am in bed for an hour and the door bell rings. I get up and it's the mail carrier. She brings me my mail and says someone ripped the back panel off the mailbox (which serves our whole street) and she says your mail will be at the post office. We will try to get it fixed Monday or Tuesday. She didn't have much mail with her. So I know I am missing some mail, likely my VA meds too.

But wait, it gets better….

I was sick in bed all day. About 3am my dog, who sleeps with me, jumps off the bed and races toward the door. I heard rumbling outside. I grabbed my pistol and went to have a look. I open the door, there is nobody there, but I hear someone running down the street. I opened the door because I was gonna turn my pit bull loose on them. But they ran off the second they heard her menacing bark.

My trash cans are on my front porch by my door in front of a window. It's the only window that opens. The big one next to it facing the street does not open. They had rearranged my trash cans trying to get through the window. Some years back, in the 90's when my mom lived here, someone broke that window out, crawled through and stole all the Christmas presents.

So, yeah, it was a fun day…

Damn. Hell in a hand basket for sure. Reminds me of how much I hate public restrooms, even if you need a key or code to get in.

TTSX · Nov 1, 2025

I doubt the McMuffin caused your food poisoning. That doesn't usually happen in 15 minutes, more like a few hours and certainly not pressurizing the exit chute. Your breakfast is probably what did it, maybe the previous night's dinner.

What you should have done with the bad guy is shoot him in the back. That's how the cowboys did it.

As for the pills, it is what it is. Unless you're literally going to die without them in 24 hours, you can get em replaced, as annoying as that is to do. I had someone break into my car and steal only the registration. Probably thought it was a title? Cost me $5 and a few minutes online to deal with instead of exploding and wishing death upon everyone

ZA_Survivalist · Nov 1, 2025

Damn, sorry to hear brother! Food poisoning/stomach flu is no joke.
Hope you recover quickly.

My best wishes regarding your mom!

User 1234 · Nov 1, 2025

I hope that you feel better soon. I also see a lot to be thankful for:

Your mom has a loving son and daughter-in-law to support her through her cancer treatment.

When your stomach went into mosh pit mode you were near a clean bathroom, not downtown Portland or 3rd and Pine in Seattle.

You were prepared at home with a functional firearm and early detection system (dog) to protect you and your wife.

You saw that the burglar was running away, and decided not to shoot. That presence of mind likely kept you out of prison.*

Kudos to you!

(I also appreciate the VA's mail order medicine but fortunately have never had it stolen)

*

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-da3-gPWFp0

gmerkt · Nov 1, 2025

I don't know how long it takes for food poisoning to set in. What I do know is that my level of trust in convenience store fast foods is low. To start with, the quality of the food is questionable. For another thing, once they "prepare" it at the retail level, it can sit around for a long time before it's actually sold. I'm sure some of those display cases aren't kept at 140F degrees plus. Anything with "cheese" or mayo on it would be a definite no go. To play it safe, I'd pass on this stuff and eat some item that doesn't require the kind of care that meat items typically need prior to sale. Like something from the bakery. "Fast" food protein items prepared just prior to sale are safer.