{"id":2449,"date":"2015-02-23T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2015-02-23T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:29:56","slug":"the-death-of-the-front-porch-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grumpyseniors.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"The death of the front porch chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

This might as a surprise to some but it appears I am a voyeur at heart.<\/p>\n

I never knew this lurked within my pristine and beautiful soul.<\/p>\n

\"surveillance-camera1\"<\/a>I recently installed a bunch of video surveillance cameras around the house.<\/p>\n

My home looks like a classified military facility.<\/p>\n

You never know when the bad guys will come.<\/p>\n

If the law won’t let me shoot them – at least I can get their picture for hanging at the post office.<\/p>\n

Most of the cameras are pointing at boring stuff like doors and empty rooms.<\/p>\n

But one shows my driveway looking out to the street.<\/p>\n

This is so it’ll catch the delinquents driving by checking things out at 2 in the morning or checking out the wife’s car in the driveway.<\/p>\n

\"Are-you-watching-me-sized\"<\/a>I’m finding myself staring at my monitor much of my free time just watching the road.<\/p>\n

I could step outside the front door and do the same thing, in better color, but this is mesmerizing.<\/p>\n

I should get a life.<\/p>\n

This could be the 21st century version of the front porch chair.
\nIf I had a\u00a0front porch.<\/p>\n

I feel like the guy in the Matrix or some weird movie about a psycho peeping tom.<\/p>\n

Delicious.<\/p>\n

The wife gets to pull out her phone at work and check the cameras to see if I’m throwing a party.
\nGotta fix that.<\/p>\n

We’ve come a long way from where no one locked their doors when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

We could play in the street until 9 o’clock and not worry about some maniac teenager on drugs doing wheelies down the road.<\/p>\n

The only traffic was the mosquito truck and it was great fun running behind it breathing in the oily DDT stuff.<\/p>\n

Of course they got banned because the oily DDT stuff would kill you.
\nBut it didn’t.<\/p>\n

\"Lots<\/a>Now if my network goes down and the cameras die I get all crazy because I can’t see what’s happening in the world outside my house.<\/p>\n

I may end up having to get a front porch chair.
\nIf I had a front porch.<\/p>\n

Makes me grumpy.<\/p>\n

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