Unexpected House Guest...
By fruitcakeliz
@fruitcakeliz (2638)
United States
August 8, 2009 2:20pm CST
So, i had something really weird happen to me the other day.
Friday morning my alarm went off and i had to get up to get ready for work. As i was laying there, i started hearing this strange snoring, that was NOT coming from my boyfriend as he was right next to me. I peered ofer the edge of the bed, and there was someone sleeping on my floor!! Immediately i reached for my glasses, my brain racing, trying to figure out who this was. Once i got my glasses on myface, i looked again..
I totally had never seen this person before in my life! I had no clue who he was! Needless to say, i kind of freaked out for a couple of moments, trying to figure out who this person was, why they were in my house, and why they were snoring away peacfully on my floor, using my boyfriends shirt as a pillow and my jacket as a blanket!
Once the sleep fog was cleared from my head, i started thinking, "I bet this is one of my neighbors friends". I live in an old farm house that has been segmented into a couple of apartments. The girl who lives next door is a young, 19 year old and her two year old son. I know she likes to party a lot, and often has lots of house guests over on nights when sh does not have her son. It might seem like a huge jump to some people, but i remember being that young, and having parties where people got sooo drunk they woudln't rembmer where they were. So i tried calling my neighbor, but she didn't answer (this was at 6 am in the morning) I wanted to ask her if she was missing a drunk friend, and if so, have her come over and get him, as i thought it might be better if a familier face woke him up instead of someone he didn't know.
Since she didn't answer, i woke my boyfriend up and asked him what we should do. In his confused, still sleepy state, he said to call the cops..which i didn't want to do. So then he said, we need to wake him up and get him out of here, do you want to do it, or me? cause if i do it, he is going to get woken up with my foot up his a$$...so i opted to do it myself.
I shoke the sleeper awake, and said to him "I don't know who you are, or how you wound up in my house, but you really need to leave, NOW" then asked him if he knew my neighbor from next door perchance, and if that is how he wound up in my home? He was STILL reeking of alcohol and slightly incoherent, but said, yes, he did know my neighbor, and when he was stumbling home drunk last night, realized he was too intoxicated to make it to his home, deicded he would just stop by and crash on her floor for a while, but somehow wound up inside my house.
He left soon after that, apologizing profusley and being friendly, joking about it..saying well thanks guys, for being kind enough to let me sleep it off for a bit.
What would you have done if this had happened to you?If my boyfriend hadn't been here, and i had been home alone, coudln't get ahold of my neighbor, i probably would have left him sleeping on my floor, locked myself in the bathroom and called the cops to remove him. On thinking it over later, this is probably what i shoudl have done anyways, as i didn't know who he was, what kind of person he was or how he would react once being woken up.
My boyfriend and i were just glad he didn't try to crawl into bed WITH us...and joked about it with our neighbor later on. I guess i need to be more vigilant about locking my door at night before i go to bed.
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11 responses
@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Well, i must admit, that before i got my glasses on and realized i didn't know this person from adam, i assumed it was some friend of mine who just needed a place to crash for the night. It really woudln't have been that unusual to wake up to a friend of mine sleeping in my house unbeknownst to me, though they probably would have crashed on the couch, as opposed to on the floor of my room (my bedroom and my living room are the same room, hence how he was on the floor right next to my bed)
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Oh my gosh! You are lucky nothing happened to you. I think it worked out for the best. LOL Noone got hurt and you got rid of the guest. I definitely suggest you start locking your door. Nothing worse than waking up with a stranger when you know you didn't go to bed with him. LOL
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
8 Aug 09
LOL. I forgot to tell you I did have an unexpected guest when I was younger. I went out to my kitchen to find eyes staring at me. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't see what the eyes belonged to. I had a whole in my floor under my countertop and didn't know it. One set of eyes turned into two and I screamed. I grabbed a broom and started beating them. Turned out to be a possum. I never get any exciting people, only animals. LOL
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
8 Aug 09
LoL...reminds me of how i had to start a conversation with a good friend of mine when telling him the story.."So..this morningi woke up and there was a strange guy asleep in my room...and NO i did not get drunk last night and bring him home with me...."
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
8 Aug 09
I once had a possum come in the back door. I had propped it open for the cats to go outside and the possum felt like he would like a kitty chow buffet to feast upon. He was young and it was easy to persuade him to run.
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
8 Aug 09
No, i hadn't locked it that night, which is often the case. Have never felt the need unless i was going to be gone for a long period of time, let alone if i am actually IN the apartment. I hav many friends who stop by through out the day, have no doorbell, and the door to my apartment is on the ground floor, but the rest of my apartment is upstairs and i often do not hear knocks, so they know to just walk in and announce themselves. I will be more vigilant about locking it at night now though!
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
well, i certainly had no problem gettin up and going that morning. Normally after the first alram, i would have hit the snooze feature on my clock and slept for another 10 0r 20 minutes...but i heard that wird, unaccounted for snoring and it got me up in a flash.
@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
9 Aug 09
WOW! You handled that well! I can see logically how you come to your conclusions and luckily you were very right. I am glad it all worked out in the end and he was no threat to you. Under the same circumstances I might have done the same thing. You just have to do what your gut tells you to do. You should be more careful and diligent about locking your doors at night. Never can tell when one of those drunk friends of your tenant might be after more than just "sleep it off". I would probably also say something to her about the situation as well. Good luck and thank you for being so kind.
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
We did mention it to her, and she was MORTIFIED and apologized profusley, appearentl the guy had called her a couple of times while drunk to let her know he was possibly gonna stop at her house and sleep it off, but after the first call, she started ignoring him as he was drunk and she was in bed.
@kevchua (1004)
• Malaysia
9 Aug 09
Hi ..Wow, this story is gonna freak my wife out if I tell her about it. You've been really nice in not calling the police to get rid of the stranger. Poor soul, he didn't know where he was. Yeah, it is a good idea to lock all doors and windows -double check to be sure before you and your boyfriend go to bed. Oh, you might want to keep a baseball bat (or something that you could easily pick up and swing) in case an unarmed stranger creeps into the house. As an added precaution, get a simple security alarm installed at your bedroom door so that as soon as it open, the alarm rings.
Cheers!
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
Yes, he was very confused and still obviously intoxicated when i woke him up. I guess living in small towns all my life, i just never worried about such things before. I am just thankful it was a peacful drunk who thought he was passing out on a friends floor as opposed to someone who wanted to steal my stuff or something.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
8 Aug 09
First I have to admit that I generally do not lock my back door. No one has a key and we come and go at all hours. At least one of us probably has a key, but we are not sure which one it is. I used to lock it when I was married to an over the road truck driver, as I was home alone with the kids, or home alone, period. I would have probably called the cops, although, as you retell it, it sounds as if he tried to at least do the right thing and not drive drunk.I hope you lock your door more regularly.
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
That is part of why i have a hard time getting into the habit. For the longest time i lived with three or four roomates, and between all of us working differnt hours and having different thigns to do, we were coming and going all the time..and i don't think evreyone always had keys. Granted now it is just me and my little brother living here, and my boyfriend on occasion...and i will be locking the doors now LoL
@AmbiePam (120738)
• United States
9 Aug 09
Uh, if I didn't scream right away, I would call the police. I don't care if my neighbors get drunk and have parties, if one of their guests ended up in my apartment, that would be way too over the top. I applaud your calmness! If he had been on my floor he might have gotten his head beat up by a lamp.
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
Well, i suppose if i hadn't had those kind of experiences when i was a few years younger (though none as extreme as that!) i probably would have freaked out a little more...
@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
9 Aug 09
Wow you must be a heavy sleeper because I know I would have woken up if I heard someone even tip toeing around in my room not to mention drunk. Your story is quite fastinating and I couldn't stop reading it because I wanted to know what this guy was doing on your floor? That is shocking and yes you should definitly lock your doors at night.
If that were to happen to me, I would have freaked out. Good thing your man was with you though.
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@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
9 Aug 09
I was kinda weirded out by that as well, particulary since he was drunk and probably wasn't quiet about stumbling up the stairs and finding his way around in the dark...really weird that i didn't wakeup.. I remember waking up earlier that night, at around 3 a.m. cause i looked at the clock, when my brother was bringing some dishes down from his room before he went to bed (he is a total night owl) cause i heard him putting them in the sink.
@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
8 Aug 09
I was lucky in so many ways in this matter, as he wasn't trying to put up a fight, he actually just started laughing and apologizing profusley for the confusion. I just thank goodness that i WAS this lucky. I really just didn't want to have to deal with cops and reports and whatnot if i didn't have to.
@onlinerep01 (490)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Hello,
First I want to say, the way you handled this situation, is much better then myself and most people that I know, and I don't want to get into to it in detail how this could have been handled so much differntly then what you have done lol, but do need to encourage you to start locking your door, because if your neighbor has these kinds of gatherings , you would never know what other kind of un exspectd company you could get in the future, and for your sake, it was a good thing you had someone there to help you, and all I can say was wow this person that you did not know was at the foot of your bed so to speak, this is the very first unexpected house guess story I heard that was so servere, please stay safe.
Happy my Lotting!
@fruitcakeliz (2638)
• United States
8 Aug 09
Yes, i did get used to being the only tenant in the house for quite sometime (except for when my landlord was staying for a week or so) so i got used to noone coming around my place. I will be more careful about locking doors in the future!









