Oscar's Policeman's Helmet

We had a rather bad night last night, we realised our youngest son Ben (15) was not home, it was way past midnight and he should have been back much earlier around 10.00pm.

We were worried, where the hell was he, we searched the streets at 1.00am, no sign of Ben. Anger had turned to real panic when by 2.00am Ben was still not home. we had visions of him slumped somewhere in a dark street.

So, we started to make the first of many phone calls, the hospitals, trying to remember what Ben was wearing, then his friends..still no joy. At 3.00am we rang the police to report him missing. we went searching for a recent photo, the police always ask for one. Ben is never this late, he wouldn't dare...something has happened, it must have.

We sat waiting for the police to arrive to take details, then at
3.35am the door knocked...and we opened to find Ben stood
there...spluttering out how he hadn't realised the time, how he had been at his friends house and stopped for Chinese...stopped for a chinese we shouted!!!! Worry had now turned to major anger and Ben knew he was in trouble big time!! We phoned the police we told him, he didn't say a word.

With that thought we realised, god, the police are still searching, we phoned them at 4.00am and told them, Ben had arrived home safely. "That's good to hear they said, would you still like us to come and visit any way?" Visit? What for? "To have a word with him about all the worry he has caused". Why not we thought, so we arranged for them to come later the next afternoon.

They arrived about two hours ago and as often is the case one was a policeman, one a policewoman. As soon as they walked in the lounge, Oscar's eyes were fixed, helmets, belts, oh goody, lots of toys!! Oscar swooped onto the policeman's helmet and proceeded to swing from the strap around his chin...then he climbed down his back and began chewing his truncheon!! We could not get Oscar off him, he was fascinated by this man dressed in blue with toys everywhere!

All this was going on while the PC's tried to talk sense into Ben, we were removing Oscar who just kept going back. Chico was laughing and Bobby threw his peas at them. We felt so embarrassed, god knows what the police were thinking. To top it all, the police got a message on their radio to attend a road accident, Oscar looked and thought "Wow" a radio, a voice from a box...he couldn't resist it, and Oscar shouted "Hello" down the radio and began to wolf whistle to the policeman "Hello" "Hello" Oscar wouldn't shut up. The police control room thought this policeman had gone crazy and kept asking him why he kept saying "Hello"!!!!

Looking worse for wear both policeman and woman left, helmet hanging off, and worst off all lovely green droppings down the policeman's nice white shirt!! We knew it was pushing it if we told him and feared arrest, so we just politely thanked them for their time and trouble and sent them on their way!!!!

 

Cheryl & Mark

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