First I need to say that I'm humbled and am ever so sorry to have ever thought that it would be the parents' fault that this happened! I never thought it would happened to me and, BOOM, it did!
Now you would ask, what happened...well....here goes....
Either my son's a genius or is my dumb luck! I was busy today searching for some important documents so I left my extremely ACTIVE child to scamper about the home office while I search through some drawers. He usually plays around with the toys that are already there and every now and then, he would reach for the cordless phone. This time I had the phone right next to me....or so I thought. My little genius had crept next to me and little did I know had taken the phone and started pressing some numbers. In my sole determination in finding those darn documents, I didn't notice what he was doing till I heard the phone ring. I then saw him fiddling around with some buttons and hurried to pick up the phone in case he accidentally hung it up. Well, I picked up the phone but there was no one on the other line so I hung up. Then it rang again, picked it up, still no one on the other line. Ok....I'm beginning to think that my little rascal might have dial some repeat line or something so that it just kept ringing each time the line hung up.
Now ten minutes later, there's some knocking on my front door(I've disabled the doorbell for obvious reasons). I went and see who was it....(I don't often get unexpected visitors) and to my surprise and SHOCK, it was a police officer!!!! OOookkkkkk......so I opened the door and asked if I could help him. He was real nice, he asked if everything was ok(code word for "are you in any trouble, and is your life being threatened in any ways, if so, blink your eyes"). I told him everything was great and from my look, I guessed he probably thought he got the wrong house. Anyway, he told me that someone from THIS house had dialed 911, hung up and when the operator tried calling back, the line was busy!!! OH MY GOD!!!!! I then told him my story and apologized so profusely that he was positively amused by my state of anxiety. He said everything is ok, got my name and DOB so that he can write up this report and was smiling and chalked up to another household with parents who can't keep an eye on their kids.
Ok....by this time I was truly embarassed. I shut the door behind me and was totally humbled. NOW I understand. When I hear a stories about kids who play with phones and had called the police department, and hence wasted the city's resources by having officers coming round their houses just because those parents can't keep an eye on their kids. *Sigh* I really really truly understand now....It's no fault of the parents, sometimes things happened and every so often it happens to you. So before you start judging another, always remember, one day, it might just happen to you....
The only thing is I can't figure out how in the world did a 13 month old boy figured out 911?????? I mean, it's not as if those numbers are next to each other?!?!And to get 911?!?!?!? Okkk...I'm not saying that it's impossible...but COME ON!!! what are the possibilities?? And no, 911 is not on our speed dial, just so we can prevent this kind of incident *SIGH*. Oh well...lesson to this, DON"T EVER EVER LET MY CHILD GET NEAR ANY PHONES OF ANY SORT!!!! Oh yah...here's my little goofball!
"Yah, I'm goofy...hehehehe"
3 comments:
Hahaha...so funny to read it. I didn't realize it could happen since I let Evy play with the phone all the times, now I know.
By the way, your boy is so cute with the dimple.
ROFL...can't saying anything else at the moment, still laughing lol
Yup, this can happen...*sigh* Now I'm paranoid; always looking around for the phone to make sure that Ethan ain't NEAR it!!!
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