Occam’s Razor?
Last night, while Tina and I were trying to watch Alan Ball’s incredibly tedious, idiotic vampire drama, True Blood, we heard a knock at the door. And then, suddenly, the door knob began to violently shake, as if someone was trying to get into our apartment.
I jumped up and quickly locked the deadbolt.
“Who’s there?” I said, cautiously.
No response. Then the door knob began to shake again, as they continued trying to get into the apartment. It continued for another moment, and then whoever it was left and began trying to get into another apartment.
“Maybe it was a drunk who got lost?” Tina wondered.
Occam’s razor would say that was probably the case. But I’m not so sure.
There are times when you realize that living in the city isn’t as safe a proposition as you sometimes think.
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By James DiBenedetto, September 11, 2008 @ 6:38 am
I feel the same thing walking home from the Metro after dark. What was that noice? Just a squirrel or something in the bushes. Nothing at all. Right?
At least you weren’t watching, say, “Dexter” or “Silence of the Lambs” or something when it happened - you probably wouldn’t be sleeping for a month in that case.
On a less serious note, I was over at a friend’s place one night and we were watching “The Ring” (the very creepy Japanese original, not the still creepy-but-less-so American version), and right after the teenaged girl gets the phone call telling her she’s going to die, the phone rings. We all jumped, and then just stared at the phone. Nobody had the nerve to answer it…
By Cori in 308, September 19, 2008 @ 9:12 am
I had someone knock on my door that night, too - I was waiting for a friend to pick me up, and (dumbly) opened the door without looking to see who was there. It was some guy in his boxers. He kept mumbling something about a door, then finally said, “Chef Ramsey won’t open the side door!” And that’s when I pushed him out of my doorway and shut the door. I think he was sleepwalking. It really freaked me out.