That’s A Very Bad Idea

This is Fruitycake. When you are sound asleep, you don’t expect to startled awake. You don’t expect to hear someone walking around when both of your persons are in the same bed. We only have one bed. So I’m able to keep track of them pretty good. They also couldn’t hide with their snoring. Especially Girl Person.

And although she can wake you with her nightmare screaming on any random night, this was different. She didn’t scream. She just sat up, I growled, and she woke up Boy Person by saying someone was in the house.

Now. Boy Person is not one to shy away from a difficult situation.

And when you are at the top of a mountain in Italy, and you hear someone in your house, you take action. For Boy Person, he jumped up and yelled, “it’s a very bad idea to be in here. A very bad idea!”

Now. My first instinct was to think, hey. We are in Italy. He is speaking English to an intruder who doesn’t even know what he said. Yet, he said it very firmly. And I would have listened to.

What did Girl Person do? What did I do? Well, nothing. Have you ever been frozen with fear? We were also real cold in bed. Getting up seemed like it wouldn’t help much. Unless I could translate.

Boy Person sternly kept talking. He went in every room. And every nook and cranny. He came back and said if someone was out there in the woods, he didn’t know. But he couldn’t find anyone.

The persons went back and forth about what they heard. Was it a door? What? Girl Person said maybe it sounded like the roof. And that’s the only place he hadn’t looked. So obviously, in the middle of the night, there was a Boy Person yelling to an unknown intruder, “you’re going to fall! This is a very bad idea!” Again. In English.

Now. As you may have guessed, no one was found that night in Italy on top of the mountain. What was found this morning was big rocks that had fallen down. Also, we heard the walking again. And ghiro? Bird? Pig? Pirate? Your guess is as good as ours.

Apparently, we need to secure our abode with more than a broomstick. And more than random tools on the floor. Or refrigerator.

I can only imagine if someone did come in and didn’t fall over the generator, the clothes on racks and plaster falling off the walls, they would be Houdini.