This is quite possibly the funniest story I have ever heard. In order to appreciate the story, you must imagine my sister telling it with a straight face with the fear that it is true. Straight from her mouth...."My friend's sister's cousin was babysitting her friend's child one night. Around 8:00, she put the baby down in her crib and opened the door to the play room to see that things were in order. When she peered inside the toy room, she noticed something out of the ordinary. To her surprise, she noticed a small clown standing in the corner, wide-eyed staring at her. She immediately called her friend and asked her if she had a toy clown that they kept in the toy room. Her friend quickly responded by saying, 'no' and told her friend to grab the baby, call the police, and get out of the house immediately!
"When the police arrived, they found the clown still standing in the corner of the room. It turns out that a schizophrenic clown had escaped from the circus that was in town. He had snuck into the house a week earlier through the doggie door, was living in a closet eating their dog food. The night he was spotted, he was frozen in a catatonic state."
The clown was later released, which led my sister to believe he was still on the loose in Bloomington-Normal and determined to secretly live in her house. From time to time, I ask her to retell the story so that I can laugh throughout...which makes her angry because she knows I don't believe the story to be true. Perhaps it is....
2 comments:
Oh wow, Karen, this is a great hilarious story. Clowns are the freakiest, not to mention the whole catatonic and schizophrenic angle thrown into the mix. I laugh now, but you can bet that tonight I will be checking my closets for lurking escaped clowns. No lie! Remind me someday to tell you about how I reacted to a story about a person hiding under someone's car...it involves me diving head first into my car when in a dark parking lot for at least three years. Thanks for this awesome blog/story. As always, you make me smile!
First of all, it happened to a girl I graduated with from the Mennonite College of Nursing, not "my friend's cousin's sister."
Second of all, the midge clown was not eating dog food to stay alive. He was sneaking food from the refrigerator which is what led to his discovery.
Otherwise, all facts are accurate.
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