Oh joy........
Nothing like getting woke up at six thirty on a Sunday morning by the local police calling you to tell you that someone has just bashed into your front porch.
It happened around ten minutes to six. I was woken by a loud BOOM and lay there with my heart bounding and groggily wondering what happened. After several minutes with no further sound I told myself that I must have been dreaming and went back to sleep.
As I said the police called at six thirty. I went down to talk to them to find that one of the front posts that support our upper deck was now three quarters of the way towards the BACK of the porch. We live in a townhouse so the association will have to fix it. They'll probably have to build a whole new deck. Maintenance is going to be pissed, they just finished repainting the deck the other day. All that hard work of theirs for nothing.
Fortunately the police know who did it. One of our neighbors came home drunk and demolished our deck while trying to park his pickup truck. So the association knows where to go to get the money to fix it.
At least the guy didn't hit the gas meter which was just a few yards away. Then there would have been an even louder BOOM.
It happened around ten minutes to six. I was woken by a loud BOOM and lay there with my heart bounding and groggily wondering what happened. After several minutes with no further sound I told myself that I must have been dreaming and went back to sleep.
As I said the police called at six thirty. I went down to talk to them to find that one of the front posts that support our upper deck was now three quarters of the way towards the BACK of the porch. We live in a townhouse so the association will have to fix it. They'll probably have to build a whole new deck. Maintenance is going to be pissed, they just finished repainting the deck the other day. All that hard work of theirs for nothing.
Fortunately the police know who did it. One of our neighbors came home drunk and demolished our deck while trying to park his pickup truck. So the association knows where to go to get the money to fix it.
At least the guy didn't hit the gas meter which was just a few yards away. Then there would have been an even louder BOOM.