MichelleCarmen
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Re: Paging Ilaner and arkeib-- I lost my ring! Help please!
The dynamics were odd. The husband barely spoke English and we had a realtor show us the house and the husband would node but had a difficult time communicating. The wife speaks w/out an accent and has good English skills but also is of the same nationality. The only thing that stood out as odd was he gave me a two-pack of light bulbs. Then a couple days later, I found a hardware store bag outside my door and again inside were light bulbs. I know that is silly, but the FIRST thing that came into my head is what a weirdo. Of all the things to obsess over were the dang light bulbs. We pay the power bill, so why does it matter? They also were $7.00 EACH bulb ($14 pack - which I just looked and our exchange rate is similar - so $16 for two light bulbs).
The wife did all the talking and seemed fine, but people can easily hide stuff. I just found the situation odd - he can't speak English and they had to leave the country for his work and I don't know what he did when he was here.
I also don't think my kids took the earrings. I never had stuff go missing and my kids understand the concept of privacy. In fact, my son heard me digging in his closet a while back and immediately asked me what I was doing. We have kind of over-established boundaries re: belongings.
To be frank, I had hoped that during the walk-through, the wife would slip the earrings somewhere and I'd happen upon them, but that appears to not have happened.
arkieb1|1375413480|3495010 said:MC|1375407109|3494959 said:arkieb1|1375396536|3494843 said:Any luck near the tree? Did Ilander think they were still there? I really get the impression someone with a "childlike mind" took them and put them somewhere in this special place that is some sort of box or thing to them for stashing stuff....
Nope, I scrapped away the moss & dead leaves using a kids' hand shovel - metal shovel w/a plastic handle and the dirt is very compacted. If the child was able to bury the earrings there, she would have needed an adult's help due to her being very young OR she would have placed them on top and they would have ended up in the lawn mower.
Now, today I was thinking about the hitting part. Is this something that involves you feeling someone hit me while I wore the earrings or someone who has the earrings hits or was hit? Just curious because the girl had a toddler sibling that was an infant when we moved in. The thought crossed my mind that maybe her parents found the earrings and she was spanked or she put them on and the toddler hit her. I don't remember if she had her ears pierced but one really bizarre thing - when the owners came to do a house walk-through, I was curious to see if the mom had earrings on and at one point she made a gesture of flicking her hair back so I could see her empty ear holes (pierced, but no earrings)...my dh thought I was imagining things...I just wondered about that.
Also, any sense if the earrings are in the house, in an apartment in Seattle (a relative my dh suspected), or if they're in another country?
ETA - I think I know what happened...the dad (owner) was at the house doing repairs, silly stuff like putting in light bulbs, etc, and he replaced the blinds in the master bathroom. My kids had swimming lessons and I thought I could trust him so we left him at the house. When we got back, there was fast food packing out on our patio table so at some point the wife had stopped by to bring him lunch and she must have had her kids with her. The drawer the earrings were in was the type a woman would typically keep makeup, etc., in and possible the daughter liked to play with her mom's makeup and was use to opening that drawer and went up and looked in there. She could have taken them then? I have to say this has created major trust issues with me! I did go through my kids' stuff but mostly just discovered their rooms really need to be organized. lol
I really don't believe it was your kids. I don't get the sense an adult took them either, but the first thing I got was an image of the woman with the dark shortish to shoulder length hair ie it's NOT super short buzz cut hair being hit with this flailing hand. Would THAT man, your landlord hit his wife? Because if you go back and read I did say if you want to take it off the boards I would - the force the hand hit was like either abuse or someone out of control....it wasn't an image of an adult hitting a child and to be honest it left me with a nasty feeling.
Tell me did he seem like a really domineering "type" of man and she subservient to him?
And to be truthful sometimes my images are literal, frequently they are like these amazing "clues". As I have been writing this I just started to get a cold feeling and a thought that what if the child took the earrings, then the mother found them and hit the child around the head. Then the woman wore them and the man struck her while wearing them and the child grabbed for them. There are so many levels this clue could indeed work over and over.
The other image I got was of someone carefully putting it into some special box or box with compartments. This could have been the child but it could have also been the girl's mother.
The dynamics were odd. The husband barely spoke English and we had a realtor show us the house and the husband would node but had a difficult time communicating. The wife speaks w/out an accent and has good English skills but also is of the same nationality. The only thing that stood out as odd was he gave me a two-pack of light bulbs. Then a couple days later, I found a hardware store bag outside my door and again inside were light bulbs. I know that is silly, but the FIRST thing that came into my head is what a weirdo. Of all the things to obsess over were the dang light bulbs. We pay the power bill, so why does it matter? They also were $7.00 EACH bulb ($14 pack - which I just looked and our exchange rate is similar - so $16 for two light bulbs).
The wife did all the talking and seemed fine, but people can easily hide stuff. I just found the situation odd - he can't speak English and they had to leave the country for his work and I don't know what he did when he was here.
I also don't think my kids took the earrings. I never had stuff go missing and my kids understand the concept of privacy. In fact, my son heard me digging in his closet a while back and immediately asked me what I was doing. We have kind of over-established boundaries re: belongings.
To be frank, I had hoped that during the walk-through, the wife would slip the earrings somewhere and I'd happen upon them, but that appears to not have happened.