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A couple of days ago, I went over to someone's house to help with their internet connection (I'm the local ISP). His name is Pat. Pat and his wife lives about five miles out of town with no near neighbors.

I called Pat before leaving. He told me that he would be there in a while but to just go on in and get started if I wished. (This isn't uncommon around here. A number of people, including the local sheriff, have told me to go on in the house if nobody was there when I needed to check their internet connection.)

So I arrived at the house and knocked on the door. Nobody answered, so I just went on in and upstairs to his home office where his computer is located and got to work.

I was nearly done in ten or fifteen minutes, but I wanted to check his computer, but I didn't know the password so I figured I'd just wait. While waiting, I connected to my computers at the office and so I kept busy.

After about two hours, I heard a vehicle pull up outside. I figured Pat would walk in the door and come up the stairs, but that didn't happen. I heard very faint sounds of someone downstairs moving around being really quiet. After a few minutes, I called out, "Pat. Is that you? I'm upstairs at the computer." After a minute or two, he came up the stairs.

Pat had completely forgotten that I was coming out to the house. He said that when he pulled up he saw my car and got rather worried because he didn't recognize it. He called his wife and asked her about it and she didn't know. While I was talking to Pat, she sent him a text message and then called him to see what was going on.

I think that either Pat or his wife called 911, too. When I got back to the office, the local cop was sitting in the alley behind my office. I just waved at him and went in the back door. It wasn't until later that I realized why he was probably back there.

Hello,

It's good to live where people are civilized - even if forgetful.

I can be quite forgetful, too.

One day when I was going to someone's house, they told me to just come on in through the side door instead of the front door and they'd be downstairs in a minute or two.

The house was on the street corner. I went to the house one block down the street and walked in the side door. I had been to the house one time many months before and what I saw didn't look like the same interior at all. I quickly left.

I later found out that the mother of someone I hadn't seen since we graduated from high school together lived there. I have no idea if she was home or not at the time.

Another time a co-worker of mine was out of town longer one Saturday than she meant to be. She called me and asked if I could go over to her house and let her dog, Willie, out for a few minutes.

I agreed and went over there and Willie out and sat on a chair on the porch.

Everything went fine until I let Willie back in the house. When I opened the door, their cat ran in through the door.

I didn't want the cat to make a mess so I went in and tried to catch the cat. The more I tried to catch the cat the more agitated it became until it was pretty much in a panic. After about ten or fifteen minutes chasing that cat around and around through the house, it ran into a room full of boxes and I shut the door. I then called the coworker and told her about it and she said that was fine.

The following Monday she told me that it turned out that her oldest son was home at the time. He was taking a nap in his bedroom next the living room where I had been chasing that cat around. In spite of all the noise I made chasing that cat and then calling his mother on my cell phone, he didn't even wake up.

Most people here don't own a firearm of any kind really, but it is nice that people first ask questions or issue a warning before doing anything else :o The police still scares me though.

But i'm glad things didn't escalate for you!

If they did, then the city hall, the library, the ambulance service, and the fire department would all have serious interruptions in their internet service until I cooled off.