"I Swear I Wasn't Listening!"
Author Carol Shedrick
Those Neighbors and Their Friends
As the night went on, stop after stop I
"I was so scared!"
After picking up the clients at 11: PM, I wondered about why they started their reservation so late at night?
It was a weekday, it definetely was a bad neighborhood to start with. How did these guys get the money to rent a limo?
As I pulled up to their house, parked and headed for the door to knock and let them know I was there, the front door went click! Someone had just locked the front door as I stood there ready do knock.
I waited for a minute hoping someone would open the door. After a minute I knocked.
I waited another minute and knocked again, I could hear someone inside saying, "just answer the door".
Then it got quiet again. Well, I was ready to just go home, now work would have made me very happy at that point.
I knocked again!
I finally just walked back to the limo and got inside to wait. It definatly was a safer place to wait.
After waitning for a few more minutes, I called the phone # that was on the reservation hoping to find out what they wanted to do.
As I was dialing someone came running out of the house heading right for the limo, They looked scared ! I just watched and made sure all the doors were locked.
This guy ran right past the limo and kept on running down the road until I couldn't see him anymore.
Wow, what is going on in that house? As I looked back I saw flames comming out of the window in the front room of the house, "OH NO"!, A Fire!
I hurried out of the limo around the other side to see if anyone else was comming out of the house, when 3 guys came running out, one guy was still in the front doorway usine a fire extinguisher trying to put out the firs.
I asked the one of the guys if I should call the fire department. He looked at me and laughed, and said " Oh shit!" we could care less if the whole place burns up"!
I was shocked! Afte a few minutes the guy in the doorway had the fire out, he just shut the front door and said, "Lets get the hell out of here"'