> There are scary people in the world.
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> Last night, I was woken up around 3:30 am by my frantic wife. Someone was banging on our door and ringing the doorbell, she said. Her friend, Nancy who is staying with us until Monday, was sleeping in the living room and was scared half to death. They were both afraid to answer the door.
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> I stumbled out of bed and made my way downstairs. The porch light was already on, so I looked out the peephole. Whoever it was had left, so I shut the light off and we all went back to bed. I was able to get back to sleep, but my wife and her friend were up the rest of the night, scared that this idiot would come back.
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> This morning I investigated our front patio. Someone had used our patio chair and table in the middle of the night, and a partially drunk bottle of Budweiser was left sitting on the table. My guess is that whoever it was who banged on our door and rang the doorbell at 3:30 was drunk.
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> After all, would a normal, sober person of any decent character come banging on a complete stranger's door in the wee hours of the morning? I don't think so. At least, I hope not.
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> If it happens again, I'll probably call the police. What would you do in a situation like that?

Happened to me. Scared me to death; I was 13, and my father was sleeping (he can sleep through *anything*; I can hear his alarm clock outside and it still doesn't wake him up), but I was only half-drowsy. About 2 am, and this crazy woman is banging on the door and screaming... At the time my window faced the front porch, and I was terrified this woman was going to peek through the crack in my blinds, see that I had my flashlight on under the covers (reading Yet Another Pern Novel, no doubt), and try to get through the window to do... whatever drunken crazy people do at 2 am.

So I did what any sane person would do: hope fervently that the locks on the door were going to hold, and cower underneath my bedspread. :-P Eventually she left; there was another voice talking out there, so perhaps someone called the police...

Strangely enough, I went to sleep right after. I don't get nightmares. It's the thoughts I get when I stay awake that bother me.

-Fob"would love to know how to sleep with one eye open"ulis