alphamale said:
how about calling out who are you? Seems that would alert the boyfriend to yell back it's me honey
+1
The event that decided me on carrying was something similar - boyfriend (
not live-in, but had keys) decided to come over in the middle of the night & surprise me.
He succeeded.
I woke up hearing someone downstairs. As I heard steps coming up the stairs to my bedroom I dialed 911 & (
while it was still ringing) started shouting things like "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" & "THE COPS ARE COMING!" & "LEAVE ME ALONE!".
He stopped, started talking to me, I recognized his voice, hung up the phone (
before 911 even answered... I thought*), & all was relatively well.
*(
Apparently it had gone through, & they called back, but I didn't see the phone flashing 'til it was too late to answer... and nothing more ever came of it. That's scary! From what I understand, a hang-up is supposed to be a fairly high-priority call. And this happened at something like 2AM.)
The only thing I'd do differently now is add to the above rolling off the other side of the bed so I had concealment, kneeling on the floor, & pointing my pistol at the top of the stairs.