Well, Nancy and I were out eating dinner at TGIFriday’s and decided that we wanted to see how the property looked at night.
We knew that Mustang was a tad more rural than Oklahoma City and when we had been at the property during the day noticed that there weren’t a lot of streelights visible. Those street lights that were visible weren’t very tall. So we were interested to see how dark it was and how much light pollution was present. We were kind of wanting it to be dark.
Plus, because it had been raining we didn’t really think and work would’ve been done.
We pulled up and circled around so we could get a better look at the lot and see how dark it was. We got out of the car and was going to walk to the center of the lot and look at the sky.
I took 3 steps into the lot and almost fell on my face. The ground suddenly dropped by 3 feet. Apparently, some work had been done. The two trees that were directly in the front of the lot were gone and they started grading for the foundation.
Needless to say, there wasn’t alot of light pollution or I would’ve seen the pit I fell into.
I got back into the car and we decided to take a quick spin around the neighborhood and see what has improved. We passed the security guard who was asleep in his car.
Well, as we were pulling out of the neighborhood, a police officer came pulling in pretty “hot”. The car pulled a U and came in right behind us. I turned to Nancy and indicated that most likely they were there for us so let’s just pull over. Nancy pulled over and just sat there.
I’m sure this confused the heck out of this fine person that we pulled over befor his lights were on because it took forever before he walked up to our car. We rolled down the window in anticipation. He slowly peeked into the window with his high powered flashlight blaring in.
As soon as his flashlight hit the “to go” container with nancy’s leftover salad that was sitting in my lap he broke out in a big ole smile.
We told him that we purchased a lot in the neighborhood and that we just moved up from Houston and we were just curious on how dark it was because we were hoping for dark.
He told us that the security guard runs a tight ship and calls the cops everytime a car pulls into the neighborhood after dark. We told him that we were going to appreciate that.
He was about to turn around and leave when he stopped and said, “Oh by the way, welcome to Mustang”. He smiled, waved and sent us on our way.
