Saturday, April 19, 2008

Can I help you?

Last night I was awoken from sleep by a lady giving a tour of our apartment to someone who wanted to rent it, so I got out of bed and explained to the people that my wife and I live here and are current on our rent. The people then got angry and started yelling at me...But i was able to grab my bat from the closet and scare them off.
THEN.....I really was awoken from sleep (it was a dream)...and Sarah is telling me that a drunk man was stumbling about on our porch. So i thought it was a great time to tell Sarah how my dream was a lot like what was really happening. Then I realized that i needed to do something about this drunk dude. So i go to where i left my bat in my dream and of course it was not there...but i found it pretty quick in the closet. So i go to Emma's room and peak around the corner to see what's happening and get ready to defend my wife and apartment for the 2nd time in the night. So while I'm sizing up the guy Sarah calls 911 as i give her the play by play on the guy trying to knock down our door and banging on our window. I gave Sarah a description of a guy in a white tee-shirt, a black Beret (French hat), and jeans that were undone. He continued to bang on our door then he went over to Sarah's flowers on the porch and "stopped and smelled the roses". Then i watch the guy walk past our door and i hear him bang on our neighbors door then the door opened and King (our neighbor's miniature Dovermen pincher) go crazy, and i realize the drunk guy has gotton into our neighbors apartment. So i did what every good neighbor would do and i went to our door to open it and go get this man before he hurts our neighbor. After all the math was in my favor Me plus neighbor man beats drunk dude. Well as I am unlocking our door the police show up and shine their light on our balcony/porch as i see our neighbor "escorting" the drunk man out of his apartment. The policeman gets the drunk guy to come down and the drunk guy stumbles away. So our neighbor man and I then Sarah when i told her she could came out on the balcony and talked to the policeman down below. The policeman says that he has dealt with this guy before and he seems to just be off his medicine and confused. The policeman has taken him in to mental hospital before but they can never keep him because he is not severe enough (the mental hospitals are over crowded). The policeman apologized for the inconvenience and said he was going to make sure the guy got "home" to where ever he was going to sleep that night. I told Sarah and our neighbor thats why we lock the door, and our neighbor chuckled and said he would try it now. Sarah and i came inside to bed and Sarah prayed for the poor confused drunk guy, and we praise God that he has kept us safe once again.

1 comment:

Sarah said...

i'm so glad i have a husband with a baseball bat to protect me in times of need! love you!