An odd thing happened earlier tonight
I was in the kitchen, Tourette's was sleeping off a headache. The house was quiet, save for Sweary jr playing on his XBox.

It was about 7:45, when there was a bang on the door. Not the door we normally use, and I couldn't find the key. Someone banged on the door, so I shouted that I couldn't find the keys.

The banging got more urgent, "You need to open up".

"I can't, I can't find the keys".

"It's the police"!

WTF?

"You'll need to go round the back", shouts I.

30 seconds later there's a knock on the other door. Sure enough, two coppers are standing there.

"Is this ****"? they ask.

"Yes, replies I.

"We've had a report of a domestic disturbance at this address a few minutes ago and need to come in".

Erm, OK.

So they come in and ask if everything is alright. Of course it is, I say, slightly bemused. Once they'd asked a few questions and satisifed themeselves that there were no people hiding in the loft, and that we haven't been braying the shit out of each other, they leave, but not before ringing the number that had made the complaint in the first place. A woman, who wishes to remain unnamed.

Odd thing is, earlier that evening, a woman rang our home number and had appeared to have dialled a wrong number, as she asked for someone called Dave (and no, not Dave Ross). A person whom, on checking 1471, had withheld her number.

So. Someone playing silly buggers, or an honest mistake?

I'm a bit spooked.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 22:49, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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What game was Sweary Jr playing on his x-box?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 23:08, Reply)

Don't know
But we have very good double glazing and all the windows were shut.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 23:12, Reply)

You need a key
to open it from the inside?!? What happens if there's a fire? Do you search the flames for the keys?

I knew someone who insisted on having their back door done like that in case someone broke the glass and just reached through to unlock it. As it's a French door with glass top to bottom, if they did that it wouldn't slow them down- they'd just step through the opening from the broken glass.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 13 Nov 2008, 23:19, Reply)

Er...
Sleeping off a headache makes me sound like some kind of wuss. I'd like to correct that to "matrix migraine" nasty stabby hurty ouch of the head.

I'm far too hard to take to the horizontals with a pissy headache FFS....

p.s. codeine phosphate FTW :o(
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 23:24, Reply)