Well, yesterday I made my first 911 call in all 20 years of my life.
Rambling here again, because I'm tired, but this is a memorable event that I want to keep the details recorded.
So, basically, a roomie of mine was having problems with an ex-boyfriend and his wife (whom I'll call Tod and Tammy) over some assumedly inappropriate text messages ... and those 2 people tried to come to our apartment to "settle" the issue. Tammy actually dared to slap my roomie (whom I shall name Ella) for almost 10 minutes threatening that she would never forgive Ella for what she'd done and that Tammy would come to find Ella whenever she felt unhappy to inflict unhappiness on Ella. And they did all this with their 3-month old baby by their side!
Unfortunately, they did this outside, so I was completely unaware of what had been happening while I was studying. A little while later, Ella came in to tell me about the situation and never let them come in again.
Not 2 minutes later, Tod and Tammy came knocking on our door and all my roommates fled to their rooms in terror.
I had planned on opening the door to tell them to leave, but I obviously wasn't forceful enough and Tammy just walked right on in.
I realize how stupid and naive it was to not realize that they were trespassing, but I was tired and had been called out of bed so I'm finding excuses.
But anyways, they start knocking on Ella's door (she remains silent) and commanding her to open the door. I stay around to make sure they don't do anything crazy, which at first they don't, but eventually Tammy got frustrated and started KICKING the door with a vehement white anger I've never seen the like of except in movies. I mean... my gut told me there was more evil potential to this woman than meets the eye, but boy was she mad and strong.
Of course, I'm sitting at the dinner table, literally "shaking in my slippers" having no clue what to do and whether to call the police or not. On the one hand I really wanted to gain more data on how exactly they were going to hurt Ella or handle the situation so that they could get arrested, but obviously, since I was there, Tod and Tammy weren't going to do anything drastic.
All the while, I was madly trying to get ahold of my parents via text (on my dying phone) so that Tammy and Tod wouldn't overhear what I was saying, but of course, it was midnight and my parents weren't as responsive. Finally, I got ahold of my mom and she told me to go into the bathroom and make a quick call to the cops.
The 911 call ended up being at least 3 minutes as I tried my best to tell the cop on the other hand everything that was going on. I want to give myself a pat on the back for staying so level-headed giving all the details of our location in a calm tone and I even remembered to give him the gate code to our apartment complex!
Anyways, the man was kind enough to stay on the line while I walked out and the police came in.
And I'm slowly falling asleep as I type, so part 2 to come later.
~CJ
Rambling here again, because I'm tired, but this is a memorable event that I want to keep the details recorded.
So, basically, a roomie of mine was having problems with an ex-boyfriend and his wife (whom I'll call Tod and Tammy) over some assumedly inappropriate text messages ... and those 2 people tried to come to our apartment to "settle" the issue. Tammy actually dared to slap my roomie (whom I shall name Ella) for almost 10 minutes threatening that she would never forgive Ella for what she'd done and that Tammy would come to find Ella whenever she felt unhappy to inflict unhappiness on Ella. And they did all this with their 3-month old baby by their side!
Unfortunately, they did this outside, so I was completely unaware of what had been happening while I was studying. A little while later, Ella came in to tell me about the situation and never let them come in again.
Not 2 minutes later, Tod and Tammy came knocking on our door and all my roommates fled to their rooms in terror.
I had planned on opening the door to tell them to leave, but I obviously wasn't forceful enough and Tammy just walked right on in.
I realize how stupid and naive it was to not realize that they were trespassing, but I was tired and had been called out of bed so I'm finding excuses.
But anyways, they start knocking on Ella's door (she remains silent) and commanding her to open the door. I stay around to make sure they don't do anything crazy, which at first they don't, but eventually Tammy got frustrated and started KICKING the door with a vehement white anger I've never seen the like of except in movies. I mean... my gut told me there was more evil potential to this woman than meets the eye, but boy was she mad and strong.
Of course, I'm sitting at the dinner table, literally "shaking in my slippers" having no clue what to do and whether to call the police or not. On the one hand I really wanted to gain more data on how exactly they were going to hurt Ella or handle the situation so that they could get arrested, but obviously, since I was there, Tod and Tammy weren't going to do anything drastic.
All the while, I was madly trying to get ahold of my parents via text (on my dying phone) so that Tammy and Tod wouldn't overhear what I was saying, but of course, it was midnight and my parents weren't as responsive. Finally, I got ahold of my mom and she told me to go into the bathroom and make a quick call to the cops.
The 911 call ended up being at least 3 minutes as I tried my best to tell the cop on the other hand everything that was going on. I want to give myself a pat on the back for staying so level-headed giving all the details of our location in a calm tone and I even remembered to give him the gate code to our apartment complex!
Anyways, the man was kind enough to stay on the line while I walked out and the police came in.
And I'm slowly falling asleep as I type, so part 2 to come later.
~CJ
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