House Mishap

Date: October 16, 2021

I am with Leslie at our home (it is not a home I recognize in the natural). Something is wrong with my phone and either needs to be repaired or charged, so as to not be without a phone I transfer the line to an old cell phone I used to have maybe 20yrs ago. It is a small flip phone.

My mom comes in and asks if I can drive her to check out some houses. She says they are on a street that overlooks the bay and "they are just beautiful homes". I agree and the whole family starts to leave the house to go see what my mom is talking about. As we walk out the door my mom tells us that they are very affordable and tells us the price and Leslie quickly realizes that these houses are not for sale but for rent. She tells mom we aren't going back to renting. Now that we are home owners we only want to buy. My mom agrees and then we get in the car and go out to a restaurant for breakfast and once we sit down I ask what everyone wants. Then one at a time everyone says they are not hungry. I asked them why we came to a restaurant if no one was hungry and we got up and left.

Leslie said we got a call from the owner of a beautiful house we wanted to buy and she asked us to come over, so we drove to the house. We get to this large multiple story, bluish, grey house with white trim. We all walk up the side stairway to a back deck and I see the owner outside with a drink in hand and a sun hat on basking in the sunshine. We say hi and for some reason I go straight in to the house opening the side door and go right inside. Once inside I see that I am in a master bedroom and there is a couple sitting up in bed talking and when they see me the woman screams from the shock of my sudden entrance. I am so embarrassed and apologize profusely, but instead of quickly exiting the way I came, I walk out a different door that leads me to the kitchen where there is another family making breakfast. They look at me in disbelief that I am in their space. Again I apologize and quickly exit to the next room. I go down a flight of stairs and am now in a large room and there are four kids watching TV and playing games together. They don't seem as shocked as the others, but I explain to them that we had come to see the house, but for some strange reason I just walked right in and now was totally embarrassed and mad at myself for my actions. The kids just laughed and thought the whole things was hilarious. Somehow I recognize the kids as the children of the owner and stayed down there with them for a bit explaining that at any moment I expect my family to come and for my wife to ask me what the heck I was doing. After I while they hadn't shown up so I walked out the side door and outside. There I see Leslie, my mom and the kids coming towards me. Leslie asks "what the heck were you thinking", I immediately said "I wasn't". I really have no idea why I would do that. I must be so tired that I am clearly not thinking straight. I asked if the owner was mad and Leslie said "yes, very. And she might not want to sell the house to is anymore".

As I processed all that just happened, I realize that the owner was renting the house out to multiple families at a time as an Air BnB. I then wonder why she would invite us over to see the house while there are people renting it out. I start to think that this isn't the house for us and all the prior excitement I had for potentially buying it started to quickly disappear. As we drive away, my mom and Leslie start commenting on how beautiful the house is and the landscaping is so nice and it is the best community and how much they want to live here. I begin to notice the trees and in front of us as we drive out of the driveway and in front of the house across the street is a huge body of water with boats on it. It really is a gorgeous sight.

We then decide to walk along the water. As we are walking we pass a couple of kids playing with the metal object that they had found. As we continued to walk we keep seeing more metal objects all around and I say "it looks like Kosovo out here" (a war zone). Leslie agreed and just then I see a large clear tarp on the ground. I kick it to see what is inside and a dead body rolls out. It is a young kid in his early twenties dressed in full military gear including a helmet. I quickly kick the tarp back over him so the kids don't see and we walk on. I make some kind of a joke and Leslie and I laugh, but my mom rebukes us saying this is nothing to laugh about. I agree and start to pray for the family who has just lost their son and for the whole situation that had taking place on the shore we were walking on.

The End!