I let the dog out last night at 2:30 am, and while I was lounging at the open door I heard a neighbor bellow, “Get IN there!”
Now, I’ve heard neighbors fight before. (My favorite line so far has been, “Me! Those magazines have nothing to do with you! It’s about ME!”)
This neighbor guy wasn’t speaking to me, because he must have been two streets over. Still, he was so loud it seemed like he was right over the fence. He sounded like a wild animal, only louder. The person being yelled at was too far away; I couldn’t hear a word that person said. (However, I can tell you, he or she was not IN there.) He bellowed, a moment of silence, he bellowed, silence.
“Get IN there!”
“” (Momentary silence.)
“NO YOU get IN there! NOOOOOOOOW!”
“”
“Walk like a man – THAT’S WHAT I DO!”
“”
“You’re an idiot! Get IN there!”
“”
(Inarticulate roar)
“”
“Don’t hit me! Stop hitting me!” Again, this was still the roaring man. My hand was on the phone, not that I wanted to protect him, but I was thinking he might go find a gun and the police might want to be in the vicinity.
But just then I heard a man with reasonable tone say, “Mutter mutter.”
“Get your hands offa MEEEEE!”
“Mutter mutter sir.”
Ah, “sir.” The police were there. After a little more muttering, Roaring Man and Mutter Man went inside, hopefully without the person who would not “get IN there.”
But I have to wonder, did the police help the situation, or was it worse after they left? Or, as it occurs to me, were Mutter Man and Roaring Man actually Good Cop and Bad Cop? And “get IN there” was short for get in the vehicle, Ellen’s innocent neighbor? I don’t know. Would have been pretty funny if I had called the cops on the cops.
8 responses to “Wild Animals at Night”
I’m thinking (and hoping) the cops would have received quite a few phone calls.
Another story you’ll never hear the end of – life’s full of them, dammit.
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gon’ do?
Whatcha gon’ do when they come for you?
Yeah, but did the sheriff’s helicoptor circle your neighborhood for an hour?
I had 2 thoughts after the first couple paragraphs:
1) someone yelling at their dog?
2)someone defending their right to read, say, Cosmo, or Redbook, which is all full of Was-My-Face-Red stories about dildoes falling out of purses. My mother, who gives me all her old magazines, finally had to quit subscribing to Redbook ’cause we razzed her about dildoes so much. Haha, good times.
.75 – Yeah, if I’d lived next him he would have woken me up. I was wondering though, should i have called? There were no threats.Big Dot – But, I will be sure to peer at the people on that street and try to connect the faces with the voice.3 – Surprisngly, there are more lyrics: http://tinyurl.com/dam2n5Caroline – No! But then, you live on the other side of D________, down by the river.gaoo – Oh! AND they are always 18, and they always tell their Mom. If anything fell out of my purse at 18 Mom would have been struck dead right then.
I didn’t realize D_________ was the tracks, but given what the houses on each side of it look like, I can see it. But hey, I have horses on my side of the tracks!And did you know that if you do Google earth over our area and zoom in, you can see the individual horses?
Caroline – No way! What about the filthy sheep?