When I was a kid, one day I saw a strange man lurking around the side of our house. I was home alone after school, and as my mother trained me, I picked up the phone and called her at work to let her know about this dangerous stranger peeking around the property. She slammed down the phone, jumped in her car and sped home. But when she got here, she heaved a sigh of relief when she realized the stranger was simply an electrical utility technician reading the electrical meter.
