What was I "NOT" Thinking?

Tonight the  unthinkable  happened that could have compromised my own safety.. I was relaxing in my room watching the news... My son was in his room preparing to go out....  Someone knocked on the front door, I heard it my son heard it too, he was about to go downstairs to answer the door, we thought who ever it was left. A few minutes later we heard this very loud pounding on the back door, this person had to go through the back yard , the gate has a lock on it so he jumped over  the gate. He wasn't a spring rooster either !!  I answered the door he immediately said he was from the court  was here to deliver some papers.He asked me to read the names on the documents.   It wasn't me or was it my landlord...While standing at the door he literally pushed himself in. Next thing I knew he was in the back hallway disputing me... I was trying to explain the names on the court papers were my neighbours  NOT US!!. They have rented it to students. Since both the  University and  College  are in the vicinity. - it is deemed   a students residence. He was trying to insist that he had the right place. Our address is similar we share the same street number, but there is  an *A in front of the other house. Easily confusing  always having to direct people  to the correct house or retrieve and deliver the correct mail to the right house.. He then started asking if I rent here do I pay my rent monthly is my rent paid on time, questions I didn't expect. Or were any of his business!!  By this time he is walking towards my kitchen claiming he wants to give me *a better opportunity to read the court papers in a better light .*  I told him to stop,  directed him to the stairs., he was starting to unnerve me along with feeling very uncomfortable with this  man , but I did not let it show.

 I called my son asked him to escort this man downstairs  show him the  door along with correct address. He still wasn't making a move I firmly told him "This conversation is now over.."!
After he was gone, my son came in to see me and asked if I had lost my mind letting a total stranger in. 
 He was clearly upset. I told him the guy just pushed through before I knew he was inside the hallway!!
My son was angry, he hollered at me saying..."Mom do you see how easy that was??"What if I wasn't home?? Why did you open the door? A hundred why's
He was right of course."Mom how were you going to protect yourself? What if he attacked you? What if he tried to hurt you rape you?"Worse yet Kill You"!! You let a stranger into the house!!


 I  put  myself in a vulnerable situation. My son is leaving again to move back out west, British Columbia in March or early April. He told me that  I need to be in a more secure area or at least in a  building  little harder to access.
Somewhere that someone can't just walk into your apartment He is right of course. My reflexes are not the same as they once were, I couldn't protect the cat let alone myself. In past weeks there have been some sporadic break ins along with a couple of home invasions, in fact one was a mother and her son being held hostage by a group of thugs, The mother was duct taped as she watched her 17 year old son be pistol whipped.One of these criminals knew the mother was on pain medication for an illness she had.It was a planned invasion ..coming for money and her pain meds.

You have to be so careful what you say to be sure someone isn't listening or invite strangers in to your home . We used to have a standing joke our city was so safe, the robber would leave his doors unlocked. Tonight was a wake up call. Even though this guy was legitimate his method was less than desireable. He needed to serve papers. 

-Understood-  

The startling fact is I didn't even ask him his name or identification....