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One lonely night ( I mean my folks were out and I was stayin by myself) I reached home at about 1:00 am after work, having paid the cabbie I heard someone screaming “Kowdha Enawa, Enawa” now for all you suddhas and wanna be suddhas that means “ someone’s coming, coming”.

I looked at the cabbie who was still doing the math for the change and he nodded saying he heard the same words. Now the irony is Alfaq had a lil scuffle with one of the bad boys over a trivial matter about a week ago. Kyokushin came in handy and the big bad wolf was on his knees, now Sri lanka being Sri lanka I was thinking maybe they had come to settle a score….that certainly was a possibility. These wolves were bad in that they were connected.

Right next to my gate there is this loud dog, for the two years I’ve been around the bugger barks his guts out night or day whenever he sees me.

On that night, not a sound…I must admit I was a bit worried. Since the cabbie will not so much as come closer to the gate, I could not check the whole house by myself thoroughly.I still thought I will do a quick run armed with a knife…that was the hardest part, I could not find anything that could hurt anybody…rummaging through the kitchen finally found a blunt as ever knife and checked the rooms downstairs and upstairs…nothing. Still not a 110% sure since if someone was around, since it's easy to move around from floor to floor while I was doing the rounds checking each of the rooms I decided to call the coppers.

Dialed the emergency number on the cell, ringining, ringing and 10 minutes later still ringining. That was a lot of help!

Called the HQ **(See abrevs post) for back-up and they were ready to come, but I did feel bad as I had already taxed the buggers a few times already…and besides they all had jobs and some were married so did not want them to get into too much shit.

You never know, there is a special operations jeep down my road everyday, it could have been one of the drug addicts from the area…further down my road the homies are not exactly the type you would Sushi with. For a cigarette they could easily thrash the shit out of you..yeah bigger badder wolves.

Last resort I called another taxi company I’ve been using for ages that had its base close to my place, the base manager there was a soft spoken good natured guy called
Well lets call him “Kula”. I explained the situ and the man volunteered to come himself! I waited and waited, a good 10 minutes later the dog started barking..I was not too sure whether that was good news or bad news…I looked thru the door view couldn’t see jack and besides I did not hear a vehicle driving up.

I called out for “Mr Kula” no answer, maybe it was stupid but I don’t know I just did it. Opened the bloody door.

Infront of me was easily 200LBS in a black shirt and black pants, hair flowing down to the shoulder and his head nearly touching the top of my gate. I must say I shat bricks and whatever else I used to suffer and constipate with..I know I couldn’t have so much as hurt him with any knife leave alone the blunt knife. I was about to pull it cuase that’s all I had when he called out “Hello Mr xxxx” now that’s the familiar voice of the gentlemently sounding Kula, I had no frikkin idea he was such a huge guy and that voice and body just don’t go together. I didn’t know what to do….I knew any robbers lurking would have fled seeing the big man, grateful I thanked him profusely for coming hid the blunt knife and while he was keeping watch at the door did a thorough check. Nothing!

That sorted went for a tea and ciggie with Kula and he dropped me back, needed the smoke real bad!!

Still not convinced there was nothing, I thought maybe my neighbours got robbed. What would they say tomorrow if they had been robbed and I knew something and didn’t wake them?? So I decided to wake them up. The lady of the house beady eyed comes to the gate asking who and I identified myself and explained that I reckoned there were robbers around and me and the cabbie had heard em.

To my amazement, her face turned red and mumbling she said “Son I am sooo sorry, my husband had a very bad dream and he was screaming his head off”!!!

What an awesome dream!! Scared the living daylights out of me, and nearly had the coppers in the neighborhood!! I was too sleepy and tired to get annoyed but I am still not sure whether she said "had a wet dream and said coming coming??" Possible right!!