And we thought it was a robbery...

The funniest thing happened this morning. 

At about 4am, we heard loud banging on a door and a man shouting “Open this door” and a woman screaming “jesus, jesus…god punish you”

We were just two girls in the house and so we shhhed one another and lay still. My friend got some guts and crawled to the door to make sure it was locked and I managed to turn off the AC with the remote and put my phone (with it’s annoyingly loud ringtone) on silent mode. I whispered for my friend to do the same. She did.

We heard more banging and then the sound of shattering glass. My friend tried to call another neighbor but the gods of telecom connectivity were probably asleep because no number went through.

The noise eventually died down and we heard a car drive out of the compound. We stayed awake, in silence, waiting for the sun to come out….it felt like a 24 hour wait.

At about 6.45 we had the balls to get out of bed and check with other neighbors….we were certain someone in the compound had been robbed and we didn’t even know how we were supposed to react. We came out and saw the maid of one of the neighbors looking confused and shaken. I asked her what happened and she said “aunty, tif come for night”.

My friend called the gateman and asked him what he saw and he told us a story that left us in stitches.

One of the neighbors had come home from his friday night shenanigans with a girl and they had a misunderstanding. She ran out of his house with no cloths on, locked him in and rained insults on him from the window. She then broke the window, reached for her car keys and left. The guy had just chilled and gone back to bed. The gateman assumed he was going to call the care taker to bring an extra key or break the lock at a later time.

My friend and I and the maid from upstairs looked at each other and burst out laughing…