Sometime back my housing area was beleagued with countless cases of break-ins and snatch thefts so much so that we were too horrified to even leave our cars unattended to open up the gates and wouldn’t dare leave the gates unlocked even while we were just hanging out around the compound. Couple of horrifying cases later, the residents committee decided to hire security guards and we’ve pretty much had peace and safety restored in our area ever since so much so that the cows are flying and the roses are singing lullabies in my garden. Get what I mean?
So my family was bright enough to think that we got “shielded” from the human perpetrators that we never considered other possibilities – until a few weeks ago at least. We have a rather huge kitchen with huge grills to provide aeration which we renovated 20 years ago, no problems ever since. However, my mom was displeasured ( read : freaked out) when she noticed a bunch of little monkeys perched up the banana tree overlooking our kitchen and had set their piercing eyes on the food. She left the kitchen briefly to perform other chores only to return to find paw marks on our newly painted walls and missing bananas from the kitchen ( Darn!). Apparently the little rascals were eyeing for more food and tried a round of hide and seek with my ( obviously freaked out) mom before they decided to call it a day.
By this time, we had our guards up. 20 years with those grills and never once had we suffered a similar intrusion and we just knew that we needed to get nasty with those mischievous little ones. Mom tried to get dad to change those grills but procrastination resulted in a few more intrusions until mom had to resort into hiding the food in the microwave oven or keeping them in the dining hall and covering the bowls with kitchen cloths to keep them out of sight. A couple of successful operations later, the little buggers got braver and this time they attacked our rice bowl and made a total mess out of our kitchen – throwing plates onto the ground and whatsoever ( Bloody annoying I’m telling ya!).
By then we decided enough was enough and the grills got changed the very next day. Never heard of them ever since, those teeny little rascals!