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 element of su