Hello Officers, Can I Help You?

Sept 3, 2009 - Today I worked on the yard, took a shower, toasted some bagels, and opened the door to the police. Not kidding.

So here's the story. I locked the bathroom door when I got into the shower. I normally do not do this and especially not when I'm alone with the kids, but I just needed a few minutes alone. M kept banging on the door and yelling at me. I kept telling her to wait and hoped that she hadn't peed all over the floor or some other beautiful thing like that.

When I finally got out, everything seemed fine, but M told me that the birds were too loud and they were giving her a headache. I had no idea what this meant so I did the normal Mom thing and said "Oh, really? Okay. Oh my." and such things. She started jumping and dancing around yelling "Tweet, tweet, tweet..." and saying she was going to jump and scare them away. I thought nothing of it and went to toast my bagel.

While I'm spreading cream cheese on the bagels, the doorbell rings, and I thought, "No, I do not want to see anyone right now. My house is a mess. I want to eat my breakfast in peace. Go away." But of course I answered it and 2 policemen were standing there and told me the alarm had gone off and asked me if everything was okay. I had set the alarm before I got into the shower, but I told them it had never gone off and that there were no problems. They said it was the garage door that had triggered the alarm. L comes up next to me and says, "Oh that was me. I did it. Sorry." She then runs off to the basement to play. The police were very nice and went on their way at which point I shut the door and yelled for L.

She said she was sorry, that she didn't know that it would call the police and that she was just getting M's bike helmet. I realized that was way earlier this morning and that hadn't set it off.

So, we're sitting there eating and I'm still trying to figure out what had happened. No one heard the alarm and no one heard the phone call from the alarm company. I'm baffled. Than finally M says, "I did it. I scared the birds and they went 'Tweet, tweet,tweet...'" I asked how she scared the birds and she said she opened the garage door. Finally I made the connection and the mystery was solved. I guess that will teach me to try to shower in peace.