I got a call from our realtor today. He said that he had a message from the woman who bought Janet’s house wanting to know what to do with the bullets that were in the closet. At least he thought she said bullets – she was calling from her cell phone and the quality of the recording he was listening too was bad, maybe she had said bulbs like in light bulbs. I assured him that I was not a target shooter or a wannabe mass murderer. She had to be referring to the light bulbs we left in the closet because some of the fixtures take special bulbs, we had extra, and had no use for them. The realtor said thanks and that he would call back to verify that the light bulbs were hers to keep.
I got back from a meeting and the message light on my phone was on. The buyer did in fact find .38 caliber bullets in a closet. She gave them to her realtor to return to us.
I called Janet and the first question I asked was if she had a past that she wasn’t telling me about. She said that no she didn’t; the bullets weren’t hers and she didn’t know where the buyer could have found them. She was stumped.
Then she got to thinking. No, they weren’t hers. And she didn’t think they belonged to the people she bought the house from because they had little kids. However, the people before them were kind of shady. She heard stories about how those people drove their cars onto the front yard and were generally considered suspect. Back then that neighborhood could best be described as “shitty” so it’s really no surprise that there would have been bullets hidden in a closet somewhere. The only surprise is that the people who had the house before Janet, and Janet herself had never found them. Janet is pretty thorough, so they had to have been hidden pretty well.
We’re telling the agent to go ahead and dispose of the them. I sure don’t want 15 year-old bullets.




