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Thursday Dec 16th ,I was nestled near the TV watching the protracted and uncomfortable Larry King goodbye-show.  As bad as it was, the fact that this man was around long enough to interview Moses, John Wilkes Booth and Al Jolson before the "talkies" obligated me to at least wave good bye to his image on the screen...Ten minutes to go in the show and the phone rings....'I'll get it right after the show is over" I thought but then it rings again and AGAIN...something must be wrong ...my son was out of the house at the time so i was the only one to pick it up.. only to hear my neighbor screaming into the phone  "Are you OK???"  "yeah, i'm fine," i respond...."are you sure?"   "YES! I'm watching Larry Kings farewell show"

"Well, there are two policemen who have been banging on your front door for the last ten minutes!!"  my knees buckled......and i felt as if i had just bought a first class ticket on the express train to Heart Attack city.....the walk from the back of the house was one of the longest of my life..and i was shaking like a leaf.

a call had been made from my apt.. to 911.....and i hadn't even been near the phone...when the cops determined i was okay and the gaggle of neighbors whose faces at that point were a blur, had left...i went back to shaking....couldn't reach my kids and was a wreck...finally hear from my daughter but no one including my brother could reach my son....any parent knows what i am talking about....you need to know they are okay.

my brother offered the nerve bending advice that ..since the police did not check the house,,,some one should check the closets and under the beds....so there i was...in my pjs...my brother on speaker phone in one hand and me with a knife in the others...at that point i was shaking so much that if someone HAD made their way into my home...the only thing i would have been good for was to use the knife to prepare a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese  on it..  as and for looking under the bed....that would have been the end....a bad knee makes it hard to get down and even harder to get up...this was a lose-lose situation...but i checked just the same

after many phone calls..finally reaching my son ,,calling 911 back.. then calling my cousin the ex cop and a neighbor to fill me in on the details as to what happened since i was totally unable to process anything at the time it happened...i discovered....that the main equipment in the central office in the verizon headquarters had a  glitch in it which made it AUTOMATICALLY dial 911from my phone

how do you like that for a service upgrade???....i MUST review my bill more carefully for other service options...who knows ??maybe one day i will come home and there will be the verizon guy with an apron covering his beer belly and i will find the table set and dinner ready!!