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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

I think Lisa's sleepwalking is getting out of control...


Well ok, Lisa doesn't sleepwalk. Except to the kids' bedroom to pick up a crying baby. They say that strangers are just friends you haven't met yet, but in this case we met her on Sunday. We actually had another visit from Lisa's troubled old school friend this morning.

As harsh as it might sound, our biggest mistake on Sunday was opening the door, and as awful as it made Lisa feel, we refused to do that again. The ringing and banging started at 7:15am, and whilst any clear-thinking person might have given up within a few minutes, this lady went on... and on... before transferring her attention to our neighbours.

By 8am she'd been told to "f**k off out of the building" by the bloke opposite, but undeterred, she just returned to our front door. A few times we thought she'd gone, only for her to materialise on our doorstep a couple of minutes later, so judging by the sign which went up in the entrance hall later this morning, she must have simply been trying other doors.

We were reluctant to waste police time with a 999 call, but at 8:10am Lisa phoned the 101 non-emergency number. And was promptly put on hold. For fifteen minutes. At which point a police car arrived. Lisa hadn't even given them our address, so clearly someone else in the block didn't share our reluctance to phone 999. And to be honest, I'm glad they did. The police persuaded her to leave in a matter of moments, and the situation was resolved ten minutes before I had to leave for work.

Lisa managed to find the phone number of the lady's mother, who remembered Lisa well, and by the end of the morning, we'd got a message to her support worker, informing them of what's been happening. It seems she's about to be moved into the mental health equivalent of sheltered housing, so in theory she'll be better looked after, and won't be waking up our neighbours again. But in the meantime, I'm tempted to disconnect the doorbell.

3 comments:

Phil's Mum said...

Sleep well!

Dave East said...

Speaking of visits from mental strangers, I've got a new computer this week, and as a result lost all my bookmarks. While searching for your blog on Google I came across your Wikipedia entry. Did you write it yourself?

Phil said...

Surprisingly, I didn't add myself to Wikipedia, I was actually put there by an anonymous Pea fan, the identity of which I've failed to establish. I'll admit to having embellished my own entry though...