Monday, November 8, 2010.
We got up at 5 am to fly back to Milwaukee. The flight went well and we arrived an hour late anyway. Then we drove to see some friends for dinner at the Delafield Brew House. It was very fun.
This story is about my daughter's experience at our resort. I hope she likes the story.
We had my daughter living with us at the resort for awhile. My son moved in with his dad almost right away. So she had one of the 3 bedrooms on the corner of the lodge. It has a window that opens onto the main deck of the lodge.
One night, after a day of hanging out with teenagers at the resort, one of the boys came a knocking on her window. My daughter was only 15 at the time.
John and I were in the bedroom right next door and we could hear everything they were saying. He was blatant enough to take the screen off of her window and then he tried to coax her outside.
John was worried and I told him not to worry. I trusted her completely and "Just wait." I said, "She'll kick him out."
Sure enough the screen went back on and he went away. It turned out that the next day my daughter found out that since he wasn't successful with her, that he went after another girl at the resort. That girl went into a cabin with him and they were found just in time by a mother. That boy was nasty trouble.
Later the next day the group of kids all went for a walk down the road with fireworks. We wouldn't let them shoot them off at the resort. So they thought they would just shoot them off down the road.
After walking for awhile, they decided to go to a "field" off the road and shoot them off. Didn't they think that a "field" that is mowed is private property? I guess not. Soon enough that owner of that property kicked them off and they all came back to the resort. We got a call from the neighbor complaining too.
It also turns out that the same boy who tried to take my daughter out in the dark of night, was the same boy who had the bright idea to shoot off the fireworks in the neighbor's yard.
So the day after that we had a talk with his guardians. We told them that he was not welcome back at the resort because of the fact that he tried to get into my daughter's bedroom, tried to have sex with another customer's daughter, and then trespassed and shot off fireworks in a neighbor's property. They agreed and said that he was trouble. He never came back and no one ever tried these things again, yet.
We had other troubles with bad customers, but never another adolescent boy like this one. I hope we don't ever again. That's not to say that the other kids were totally innocent, and we talked to all of them separately about our concerns. Those other kids came back to our resort many times and we never had trouble with any of them ever again.
Maybe we'll have some issues with teenagers again, but for now we've been very lucky.
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