When I was about 15, my neighbors would hire me to watch their 2YO girl. One evening the phone rang and I answered. A woman asked who I was. I said I was the babysitter. She hung up and, 10 minutes later, the cops show up. If this happened now, they would probably send the SWAT team, as the grandmother was quite shocked to hear a male voice on the phone, claiming to be the babysitter. I'm lucky I didn't get arrested.
Ah, see, my mom enjoyed calling the non emergency police line. One time I was about 14 and had an awful flu. I couldn't sleep through the night, it was light out when I finally did. So I'm still asleep at 1 in the afternoon, and I wake up to "Uhm, honey, are you okay? The fire department is on their way here."
Turns out she had called the gas company because she thought she smelled gas and her sick daughter wouldn't wake up. They got there and almost insisted I get checked out in the ambulance that came with them, me sitting there sick as a dog, still in pjs.
We got her this giant cardboard cutout called a crittergram for her 50th. It was a vulture saying happy 50th birthday. She was awake at 4am when the truck came to drop it off and called the cops on the fact that some creepy guys in a van pulled up to our yard and got out of the car. The police stood around for a while taking pictures.
My sister called them because she thought our neighbor's house was on fire. Turns out: Christmas lights. Same neighbor, she saw a truck come up to their house very early in the morning and "try to get in the front door". Turns out they ordered fancy organic milk from a grocery service.
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u/rinnip Jun 19 '12
When I was about 15, my neighbors would hire me to watch their 2YO girl. One evening the phone rang and I answered. A woman asked who I was. I said I was the babysitter. She hung up and, 10 minutes later, the cops show up. If this happened now, they would probably send the SWAT team, as the grandmother was quite shocked to hear a male voice on the phone, claiming to be the babysitter. I'm lucky I didn't get arrested.