Friday, March 1, 2013

Awkward Exchange Moment #256

Today my host mom and I were driving home from visiting her daughter's dance studio, and when we got home we rang the doorbell to get into the apartment building.  In apartments, as you probably know, you have to ring the bell that corresponds to your particular apartment, then the person there can unlock the door from their apartment, then you walk to the apartment door inside the building, and ring a second bell to get into the house.  In my apartment there's a video camera next to the doorbell outside that way the person can actually see who is ringing the bell from all the way outside.  With all this being said, my host mom and I were ringing the doorbell to get inside.  Now, I must tell you, my host mom is a pretty silly person, so we decided it'd be funny to ring the doorbell (my host dad was at home) and cover the camera and make funny "HO HO HO" sounds and saying things like "MERHABA!!" in crazy voices.  So we did this once, we heard that he was there due to faint sounds from the microphone  but he didn't let us in.  Hmm... So we rang again, this time showing our faces and just cracking up.  Again, he clearly acknowledged us because we could hear noises from the microphone  but no answer.  My host mom look at each other, then look in the parking lot for his car, and think maybe he's not actually home.  So, we unlock the door the old fashioned way with a key, then walk up to the apartment.

To our surprise, my host dad is sitting on the couch, and we were like, "Where were you? Didn't you hear us ringing the bell? We were making funny noises!" He was very confused, he had no idea what we were talking about, and then he realized something.

We accidentally rang the neighbor's bell.  And not just any neighbor's bell.  The neighbor that we're not particularly friendly with and don't talk to...

We then all laughed about the situation for about two minutes straight, nearly all of us in tears.

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