The incident

(Some background information before I start the story. My stepdad has OCD. His house is immaculate. At any time any day you can go to my parents house and it is so clean you can eat off the floor. According to him it is never clean enough. It looks like a model home you tour.)

I just got off the phone with my mom. This is how it happened.

Most of my family on my moms side live in VietNam. She decided to call her sister. The first set of numbers that you dial to call there are 011 followed by a long list of numbers. It is easy to get them mixed up and have to hang up and start over. This is what happened to my mom. She tried several times before getting the long list of numbers correct.

Now when my mom calls Viet Nam it is expensive, so she doesn't like interruptions. So when her door bell started ringing she ignored it. She wasn't expecting anyone and figured it was the neighborhood kids looking for Lil'babs (we are over there almost every day). Well who ever it was the kept ringing the damn doorbell. My mom got frustrated and told her sister to hold on so she could go see who it was. It was the police! The wanted to know if someone had dialed 911 from this house. My mom was surprised and said no, that she was the only one home and she had been on the phone for a bit. Then it occurred to her that she must have accidently dialed 911 instead of 011. She told him this. He asked if it would be alright if he came in to look around. Of course my mom agreed. She was sure he just needed to look around to be sure no one else called and needed his help. Apparently he was satisfied and turned to leave. On his way out he turned and said to my mom " This is the cleanest house I have ever seen!"

I thought it was pretty funny that mom misdialed and didn't realize she had called 911 because that is just like her but I was laughing my ass off when she told me about what the officer had said !!