rhondak

When you flee your home on some idea you might end up knifed to death and blended up into shark chum or worse stuck in the same situation with the same story with the same elevated sense of threat, menace and entrapment...

and you estimate you've got 10 minutes to hit the road....

1) Grab your copy of the lease or related items pertaining to ownership/relationship to domicile

2) Grab ALL power chords for phones/computers/cameras

3) Complete outfits---its going to be hard to explain the flip flops even when you have dreads

4) Be prepared to mercilessly cut off all utilities in your name because you can't afford two places at once and really the time to be nice was so...soooo..MONTHS ago

5) Grab pet's medications and food/water bowls...and a familiar pillow would be nice

6) Grab all your banking items, checks +++ business receipts--just throw them in a bag

7) Stop telling yourself that has to be a reasonable explanation when REASON has not lived in the domicile EVER and you can't make sense out of NO SENSE like you can't make a goose lay golden eggs...but it is a purty little story, isn't it? Now move move MOVE! That's what I'm talking about. If you think someone might kill or hurt you, the paranoia is relevant even if it gets you around people who can get you medication for all that paranoia if you do indeed suffer it for no reason. Seriously--all this is precious minutes wasted. Then and now.

8) Don't grab matching luggage or nice carry ons---grab trash bags and act like you're in a race to win everything in the toy store

9) Consider that the love of a pet is really the best love of them all

10) Don't get all Lot's wife and look back. Salt belongs on a margarita glass--not in your bones...not in your wounds.

And when you don't manage to do all these things...forgive yourself.

He is going to call the cops on me for turning off the electic because I'm not there and it is in my name and he's going to sue me for half the rent in civil court. I think the filing fee is $250.

What this means to you, if ANYONE threatens you--call the cops and leave a better paper trail.

What it means to me, is just a sucky mudslide for hours or months to come.