Early on in our relationship, my current wife and I were staying at my parents place who had gone overseas for a while. It was just us two staying in the house at the time and it must have been winter as we were both in our matching winter pyjamas before heading off to bed for the night. our P.J's has big fluffy white clouds on them. I think it was still fairly early when we were in bed, all the lights in the house were turned off, and we were in the early process of sleeping when i heard a noise that sounded like it was coming from the veranda near where we were sleeping, it sounded like someone was trying to open the door. I freaked out and decided to call the police on the mobile straight away. From the bed i grabbed the mobile phone and dialled 000. I asked for police (In a whispering voice) as to not disturb the intruder. I was put through to the local police station. They asked "Mona Vale police, what seems to be problem". I whispered softly "I think someone is trying to get in at the back of my house" They said "Are they still there?" I responded "I am not sure". They then said "We will send someone there straight away. What is the address" I supplied the address and said goodbye.
I got off the phone and told the wife that they were sending someone to the house to check. By this stage we hadn't heard too many more noises and thought they might have left the vicinity.
The police showed up within 5 minutes, which really impressed me. Someone was shining torches in the backyard, I could see through from the back veranda. I thought it might be the intruder. My wife was saying to go and check who it was. I was a little unsure of this and was edging out closer to have a look. I was thinking "What if it's the intruder/robber?" "What if they have a gun? Or are crazy?"
It was cold out, even in my winter PJ's and i think i was shaking a bit, either from the cold or my nerves (not sure). I yelled out "who is there?" To which the person in the night said "The police" I said something like "Prove you are the police". Just as i said this, other police started showing up down the side of the house. One of the police said "I've got someone here, do you know this person?" "They said they were coming home from being out and came down the wrong side of the fence." They had a torch on the guy and they asked "Is this your neighbour". I said "yeh, it's okay it's my neighbour." He looked very non plussed about the whole situation and a little nervous. The police let him go and then came up to back veranda part of the house. It was at this stage that i realized that my wife and i must have looked a sight in our matching pyjamas. There were 2 female cops and 2 male officers and they said they didn't really need to take a statement or anything. We had a bit of chit chat and they then left the house. I was really impressed with the police on this occassion, the whole thing was handled extremely well and I thought at the time, I wonder if it's because of the postcode my parents live in, you wouldn't get this If I was ringing from a Redfern address.
When they left, we laughed about what just happened. She said "you were great sarcastically" "Quakes". "You were standing there quaking". I said "I was not! I was just cold" but thinking yeh she was probably right. "I didn't know if it was copper or the robber i said". I had a right to be scared.
My wife said, " I wonder what they thought of us, both standing there in our trendy matching P.J's". "Yeh Good point i said, I don't know.. maybe something like what a fashionable nice young couple". Haha..
