The police man just beat down my door!

[Philosophy]

No it wasn't BFEE agents coming to haul me off to Gitmo. And actually they had a key...

I called in sick today because I caught a cough from a work and for some reason I also had diarrhea (TMI?). I called really early before anyone was in the office and left a message on the answering machine, like people in my office usually do. Then I went back to sleep. I woke up at about 10 and decided to take a shower. In the middle of my shower I suddenly heard a guy with a heavy Latino accent hollering up the stairs outside the bathroom door. I jumped out of the shower and put on a towel and peeked around the bathroom door to see what was going on - I thought I was being robbed or something. But then I saw two police officers standing at around the corner at the bottom of my stairs with their hands on their holsters.

Turns out a girl at my office accidentally erased the phone messages this morning without listening to them, so nobody knew I wasn't coming in. My department head called my home three times to check on me. But I had left the handset of my cordless phone in my bedroom in another room, and my phone downstairs didn't ring loud enough to wake me. So my department head, being a pathological worrier, came to my apartment and saw my car parked in front and started knocking on the door, but he is a kind of timid guy so his knocks weren't audible from upstairs either. So he called the police, and at first the police were going to beat down my door, but cooler heads prevailed a little and they decided to just get a key from the management company that runs my apartment.

I thought it was kind of funny - it was kind of like an episode of cops - I was even shirtless! My department head didn't seem very amused. I reassured him that I was ok and told him to let everyone at work know I was still alive.

I'm feeling a little better now that I caught up on my sleep. I think I'll go shopping.

[TlalocW]

1. Same thing happened to me

My then 19-year-old niece was living with me. I had gotten an extra job working at an arcade over the weekend, and I had told her that I was going to spend the night at my girlfriend's. When I got off work though, I felt sick so not wanting to infect someone by sleeping next to them, I went home and arrived just after 1 AM. She woke up to hear me snoring or turning over in my bed and called the police who arrived and stood at the front door and yelled, "THIS IS THE POLICE! WHO'S IN THE BEDROOM!" That woke me up pretty damn quick, and I came out in sweat bottoms and nothing else to clear everything up.

TlalocW

[indigo32]

2. Freaky

hope you feel better.

[BiggJawn]

3. I hope you give your boss a ration tomorrow.

"Gawd! I can't EVEN believe you called the fuckin' COPS, man!"

I'd also remind him that if you're so damn indispensible to warrant having the constabulary kick your door in, you really need to re-visit that compensation statement.......

[Philosophy]

4. I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed or flattered or amused

I thought it was kind of funny at first, then he seemed kind of half-embarrassed, half-pissed himself, but I just kidded him about it as best I could because I was still a little jumpy from the surprise. I was thinking about calling our boss to smooth things over, but I kind of like the idea that everyone at the office thinks I'm a little bit dangerous and perhaps a wee bit insane. Seems like that could come in handy later.

[Skittles]

5. lol, I'd have to say they did have "probable cause"

I live alone and people at work know if I don't show up and don't answer the phone, something is wrong.

[BiggJawn]

7. Yeah, but the FIRST DAY?

It's customary in my part of the world to wait at least until the neighbours complain about the smell....:P

[Skittles]

11. well

to be honest, my coworkers would do the same thing.

[el_gato]

6. sounds like your dept. head is a moron

I would tell him If I don't show up for work
deal with it when I get back.

[PVnRT]

8. Look at it this way

You have a boss that seems to actually care about you. That is a rare thing these days.

[myrna minx]

9. Hey, when I worked in property management

we would have people who would die and no one would notice until the odor became too strong. One resident had been dead for approximately two weeks without anyone realizing his absence. Not family, friends, or coworkers. I think that is sad that someone could be missed for two weeks and no one noticed.

[BiggJawn]

12. Yeah, it's sad, but....

Such will probably be my fate.

I should probably get out more and meet some people....

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

10. I've got a story, too.

This is pure hearsay, and for all I know it's an urban legend, but it's a cool story nonetheless. I got it out of a book called "Turkey Soup for the Rest of Us".


LONDON, England - Two red-faced lovers have some explaining to do when, in the throes of passion, one of them accidentally hits the speed-dial button on a bedside phone and twice wakes the young lady's mother in the middle of the night.

The first time the phone rings, the woman in Devizes, southern England, assumes that the grunting and groaning on the other end of the line is the misplaced passion of an obscene phone caller, and goes back to sleep.

On the second call, amid even more moaning, Mom hears a man's voice in the background and, unmistakably, the sound of her daughter.

Her daughter was screaming "Oh my God!" the woman tells police, when she frantically dials 999, the emergency response squad, to report a break-in, a mugging, or even worse.

Police say the young couple was quite embarassed when the emergency team burst into the apartment, and grew even more embarassed while explaining the freak accident.

Now, of course, they have some explaining to do - to Mom.