Knock Knock
Once upon a time, I began to experience a new and bizarre phenomenon-knocking on my front door. It all started when a new neighbor moved into my building-a single mom with two children, around 10 and 13 years of age. The knocking began with a simple knock on my door, which I believe was a game on “ding dong ditch", a game when kids ring your doorbell-or knock on your door-and gleefully run away before you can get to the door. It’s a simple game, an innocent joke, which means no harm. However, we know that games can quickly get out of hand. * What began as a simple knock on my door quickly evolved-and devolved-into a series of knocks on my door. It was if the girls had created a new game: “first one to run up the stairs and knocks on her door wins!” When it first happened, it scared me. A sudden burst of knocks on your front door, when you’re not expecting it, would scare anybody. Over the next few weeks, when these incidents occurred, the girls had lost the...