A Near Miss

I walked in the door at around 2:00 this afternoon. I gave three hours worth of lectures with very little sleep. Last minute paper grading had kept me up until very late the night before. I was downstairs putting the breakfast bowls in the dishwasher, when I heard a sound from upstairs. I stopped everything and listened again. I was about two seconds away from running out of the house and calling the cops, when I realized that the noise upstairs was coming from someone puking. Steve had come home from work with a stomach bug. He just missed a full body search from the thugs on the local police force.

5 thoughts on “A Near Miss

  1. Ha! I’ve done that before only I was in the bathtub when I heard someone come in the door. I was trying to figure out a way to get to a phone without calling attention to myself. About the time I was ready to bolt into the bedroom, Mr. Geeky yelled “Hello?”

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