I am staying at a hotel right next to washington dullus airport on the VA side. I am working nights and sleeping days. I got in this morning at around 7 am and hit the sack. The doors to the rooms are on the outside of the building so there is no security between the parking lot and my first floor room other than my door. I have the do not disturb sign on my door but at 11 am the door gets knocked on and someone jiggles the handle but upon hearing me say I do not want service they leave. I go back to sleep, then at around 3pm the same thing happens, but this time when I say I do not want service I hear a card on the card reader on my door and I again yell "NO THANKS" and "PLEASE LEAVE", this does nothing. I see the door open and I grab my P2000sk on the bedside table. I am in bed with no cover available away from the door due to a wall on the side of the bed. The bathroom could be used as cover, but I dont have time to get there before the door would open. Luckily, even though the maid was able to disengage the dead bolt luck on the door, the swing latch prevents him from opening the door all the way. I am not pointing the gun at the door but at the floor on a first floor room as its the only safe direction. He then pushes the door against the swing latch as if trying to force it for about 1.5 seconds, he then says he is sorry and closes the door. I do not know why the yelling and the do not disturb sign as well as the dead bolt lock, which is much harder to disengage than when the door is just locked as it closes didnt make it obvious that someone was inside which makes me wonder if the guy REALLY worked for the hotel or just picked up on of the master lock cards and was looking to steal something.
I called the hotel and they said they have the maid service working all day and only certain employees have the master cards that allow them access to all the rooms and that I should not be worried.
The afterthought that sits in my mind is this, had I forgotten to engage the swing latch, or if somehow failed to engage and I did point my weapon at the person who would be less than 12 feet from my bed at the time of opening the door. Had I had to point me weapon to get the point accross that this was not a good room to enter, or had I had to fire...from a legal standpoint things could have gotten very sticky as it was a hotel room. What could have made things even more complicated was if he didnt understand that I wanted him to go away because he might has not spoken any english?
Anyway, thats how my day started, it was probably nothing big, but being woken out of a dead sleep it further complicated things.
I called the hotel and they said they have the maid service working all day and only certain employees have the master cards that allow them access to all the rooms and that I should not be worried.
The afterthought that sits in my mind is this, had I forgotten to engage the swing latch, or if somehow failed to engage and I did point my weapon at the person who would be less than 12 feet from my bed at the time of opening the door. Had I had to point me weapon to get the point accross that this was not a good room to enter, or had I had to fire...from a legal standpoint things could have gotten very sticky as it was a hotel room. What could have made things even more complicated was if he didnt understand that I wanted him to go away because he might has not spoken any english?
Anyway, thats how my day started, it was probably nothing big, but being woken out of a dead sleep it further complicated things.
point across 
