2008/04/26 New York
Assassination
Odor
Early Friday morning I woke up because somebody was trying to enter my apartment. To be more precise: somebody was trying to get his or her key in my lock, and he or she was apparently not willing to give up. Although it must have been clear to this person that after five minutes of fruitless trying maybe the key just didn’t fit.
Both godson and his mother were sleeping like a baby.
I decided to go to the door, not that I thought of burglars, I thought more of a clumsy assassination attempt. After last summer I’m prepared for clumsy assassination attempts.
“Hello,” I said.
I heard the voice of the woman living above me. “Excuse me,” she murmured.
Through the door I could smell an intense odor of booze.
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Yes, I immediately thought about the drunken woman upstairs, a polite drunken woman though.
...........and then she stumbled upstairs?
If these are your keys Arnon, I am wondering if some smart fellow could reproduce keys by copying them from an image.
My neighbour once looked too deep in the bottle and made the same mistake. When I attended him to his mistake he said that he wasn't wrong but someone had switched the houses .
It's quite scary, people intruding your territory. A negroid once entered my room while I was sitting there. We didn't exchange words, just evil eyes. Than he left. I never saw him again.
Ellen
She was in the company of a man.Sander
This must come as a relief for you, these are not my keys.I used to live in an apartment next to a little hall where retired employees of the socialist mutuality used to have meetings , drinks, card evenings and what not. I almost always left the door of my apartment unlocked when i was at home. It often happened that someone entered the room in search of a lavatory. I liked the look of surprise on their faces as they suddenly found themselves in a fully furnished livingroom.
Arnon's English lesson number 1
"Both my godson and mother were sleeping like a baby", Wouldn't you prefer: "like babies."Sheers!
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