911 Call
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Do you know what happens when your wife's health plan starts with 911 and she calls the health plan number instead of the health plan's phone number? Two large cops show up at the front door. They also had their sticky setting turned "on" because a half hour later when I walked outside I noticed them parked behind a palm tree half way down the block. It was another half hour before I figured out what happened.
Somebody suggested that I should keep doughnuts on hand, but I said no, "they might have kicked the door down."
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I bet your wife doesn't think it is so funny.
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Not nearly as much as I do.
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I know what you mean - they really don't like that. Many years ago I was home with the kids for the day while the wife was out somewhere. I had 4 under the age of 5 @ the time with 18 month old twins. I was in the kitchen working on lunch for them with the twins in their highchairs and the next oldest helping me when there was a knock at the door. Two officers greeted me and asked if everything was OK. They welcomed themselves in the door and looked around and asked where my wife was. Then they proceeded to ask my daughter (3 at the time) where her mommy was. Was kind of surreal - then they got a radio call that the caller was still on the phone. I yelled for my 4 1/2 year old son - he was upstairs on the phone having a conversation with the 911 operator the whole time. The officers chuckled a little and talked to my son (including asking him where mommy was) as I hung up the phone. They then proceeded to walk through the downstairs of the house just for good measure and where then on their way.
Kids.....
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Cops are definitely trained observers. It is a strange feeling to talk to a guy who is scanning every inch of the interior of the house instead of looking you in the eye as you talk. Where I used to work there was a gal who had come home to find her door broken down. She had one of those old phone with the over size key pads for the almost blind. The police couldn't figure who called 911. Then it dawned on them that the cat had knocked the receiver off the cradle and then walked across the key pad.
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