Remember playing cops and robbers when you were little? You’d divide up who was a cop and who was a robber and then you’d run around and burn off some energy while you tried to capture the robbers, while the robbers tried to rescue their captured cohorts from the designated jail? No one ever told me there was a grown-up version!
One of my friends from ThePlaceThatShallNotBeDiscussed was telling me about her weekend, specifically about how she was up until 5 a.m. on Saturday night. I thought she was waiting up for her husband who just started working the midnight shift as a cop. Nope, she was over her brother and sister-in-law’s playing cops’n'robbers. Apparently, her brother was telling the story of an NFL-player who was the victim of a late-night burglary. Packers’ running back Noah Herron dialed 911 from his bedroom after hearing the burgler’s enter his home. Herron didn’t have any weapons in his bedroom, where he was holed up, so he quickly unscrewed his bedpost and waited by the closed bedroom door. Meanwhile, the burgler’s figured out that Herron was inside, waiting.
“Come out,” they demanded.
“No way! You come in here,” Herron replied.
“Come on out here, man,” the robbers beckoned again.
“It’s MY house!” Herron retorted, “Get OUT!”
“Alright, we’re coming in,” the robbers decided.
“Okay. But I’m gonna beat you,” Herron cautioned.
The stupid burglers walked into the bedroom. Herron swung the bedpost and knocked the first would-be robber unconscious. The second one tried to flee but was apprehended by the police who had arrived.
Wacky story, eh? It gets better. Because that’s what my friend J. and her brother were reenacting as they played cops and robbers. Her brother tried to unscrew his bedpost while J. – who is about a hundred pounds sopping wet, mind you! – pretended to be the robber coming in to kill him. She counted down and yelled at her brother to practice because he was going to die if he couldn’t do it faster!
I about died laughing. I love my friends and I want to hang out with them all the time, people! I can’t tell you how much I love that I am not the only person thinking of these crazy things to do.
February 25, 2009 at 8:53 am |
I needed that laugh this morning. Funny – I can certainly see me and my friends doing something like this.
February 25, 2009 at 9:05 am |
I obviously need more versatile furniture.
February 25, 2009 at 11:50 am |
Note to self: Purchase additional screwdriver to keep in bedside table.