My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
So I was especially tired this morning. I stayed up too late as usual, and it hit me especially hard today. After getting Hunter and Emma off to school, and Rob off to work I sat Hannah and Sabrina down in front of the Barbie Rapunzel movie and headed to the shower. I took a longer shower than usual in an attempt to wake myself up. Little did I know there was mischief afoot as I lingered in the warm water…
Apparently, Hannah or Sabrina had been playing with the phone and accidentally dialed 911. Of course the dispatcher didn’t get any response to her questions so a police car was sent to our house. And when did they knock? As I’m standing in the shower of course. But since I’m a bit groggy and the shower masks most noises, I don’t hear the knocking. Hannah and Sabrina do though, and run to open the door for whoever might be there. (I swear it was locked, but either I forgot to lock it or they figured out how to open it.) Lucky for me it was two police officers wanting to know if there was an emergency. Unlucky for me, they are questioning the girls about where their parents are as I step out of the shower. I heard unfamiliar man voices downstairs and freaked, so I grabbed my robe and ran downstairs with my hair dripping and the rest of me dripping too because I hadn’t bothered to dry off. The officers don’t look happy and tell me that they received a 911 call from this address. I apologize and tell them it must have been the girls while I was in the shower. I’m of course embarrassed, but relieved that it isn’t some kidnapper or thief that has broken in.
Unfortunately, they don’t have a sense of humor about any of it, and tell me I’ll need to come with them to the station because I left my children unattended. Are you kidding me? I was in the shower and that’s “unattended?!” I tried to call Rob, but he was in a meeting and I couldn’t get a hold of him. My neighbor happened to be home and stayed with the girls while I was allowed to change into clothes and ride in the back seat of the police car like a criminal to the police station. At this point I was livid, and couldn’t believe this was happening to me. They took my “mug shot,” my fingerprints, and had me fill out forms… It was horrible and humiliating. I was so relieved when I finally got a hold of Rob and he came to get me. They let me go, but I now have a court date to prepare for. I’m sure it will all work out in the end, right? Now is a time I’m glad I’m married to a lawyer. Rob thinks the whole thing is funny, and even got a copy of the mug shot. I didn’t want to post it, but to humor him I’ll link to it instead of putting it on the front page. If you’re interested, click here.
So now you may not want to stand within a ten foot radius of me, because I may only be able to shower on weekends…
You take such a flattering mug shot, it looks great!
My kids called 911 before too. It stunk they called back and I answered and they asked me to talk to my mom. I guess I sound like a little kid.
You SO had me. My thought the whole time was, “Well what the heck do they expect us to do with our kids when we take a shower?” Good one. Very good.
Very good! You totally had me.
That’s outrageous. I’m sending this to my Congressman.
That’s just too much!
Ohhhh noooo!!!! Didn’t you fool us all last year too? I was totally breathless reading about your ordeal. Ya got me again! You are good. Ha! J.
I hope this doesn’t mean you can’t come this week. What a ridiculous state of affairs. We have no right to educate or kids in CA and now no right to shower!! Where will it all end????
What an ordeal!!!! I am glad I was not exposed to such scrutiny. I am afraid that I would have been penned up for sure!
Ohmygosh, I believed every word! I was reading and gasping and dying inside for you. You are so clever, two years in a row you got us all!
You had me in tears for you!!!! You are in big trouble Missy!
I was reading along and I was feeling so sorry for you and then I thought – wait a second – it’s April Fool’s Day – sure enough. Wasn’t it last year you played the pregnancy joke? Too good.
This was Rob’s idea to write a horrible believable story. I guess that makes me an accomplice, because I wrote it. It is, however, based on an actual event. When Hannah was just 2 she was playing with the phone while Rob and I watched TV one night. It was pretty late for a visitor, like 9:00pm when we got a knock on our door. It was police officers saying that there had been an emergency call from this number and no response to the 911 operator. We tracked down the phone and found it still on. These officers were actually pretty friendly and nice about it and didn’t give us a hard time. Oops!
So while Mark and I were at the clinic late Tuesday night fixing the computer, Mark has asked if I’d seen your post yet today, and that I should read it, it was pretty crazy. I said I hadn’t and went right over to a computer to read it. Well I read it and was it was crazy and I was trying to wrap my head around why a police officer would have such a lack of common sense, I was feeling so bad for you and I clicked on your mug shot picture, and you looked so sad. I continued to feel so bad for you for about an hour when Mammy came by and had mentioned what a funny joke you played on all of us with your post. “What, what joke?” Apparently the picture didn’t load all the way or the window it loaded in was too short, so I didn’t see the April Fools sign. Mark wasn’t going to tell me either, he thought it would be funny to let me keep thinking that. So you really did get me good, cause I just thought for a while that it really happened.
Gee….. I am glad that I was not the only one who fell for it! Maybe I am normal after all?????