This morning I came downstairs at 6:15am and made a cup of tea which I took back up to bed. After having the tea, I lie there half listening to the radio, planning what I would do today and dozing. Now that I don't have to get up to go to work, this is a luxury that I will continue to enjoy until the mornings are lighter.
I had obviously drifted off to some magical place when I was woken very rudely by extremely loud banging at my front door and a lot of shouting, "Open up!" coming from outside. Quickly I pulled on my dressing gown and scrambled downstairs to open the door not knowing what sort of emergency was taking place. Without my make-up on and my hair resembling that of a very old scarecrow I look like an old witch so I thought whoever is there will take fright when they see me and run away so fast they'll break the 100 metres sprint record!
There was a young policeman outside the door and a good half dozen or more of his colleagues banging on the door of one of the houses opposite. He asked if the property was a house or flats so I told him it was a house and it was also empty. He called across to his colleagues to let them know before they used force to break the door down!
The policeman had a sheet of paper in his hand which had some pictures on and I said to him that two of the men on there had lived in that house but had moved out at the end of May last year! I also told him that if they checked their records, they would have found that I reported an attempted burglary by this person a few weeks after he had moved out and the police had come to see me at the time and got a full description. I also said that this person obviously knew the people that subsequently moved in because I had seen him visit them on several occasions after.
Then I told him the property had been empty for about four months and the person that owned the house had recently had builders and decorators there so it had just been re-furbished. I said I didn't think the owner would be too happy if the police broke the door down either! He agreed and thanked me saying "It also saves me from an emabarrasing explanation to my bosses". Then off they went.
I'm not surprised the police don't catch criminals if their intelligence is so out of date and I don't think they sent this lot to collect a parking fine either!! Perhaps next time, they'll wait until I've 'got my face on' and done my hair too.
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