I went out with some friends and had more drinks than I planned and then got dropped off around 2 a.m. I live in a townhouse complex where all the units look basically the same and being slightly drunk with the lights low definitely didn’t help at all. I confidently walked up to what I thought was my front door. It was already open a crack which didn’t seem that weird in the moment (I figured maybe I forgot to close it fully before going out or something), so I just went in like I owned the place.
Well a few seconds later I heard footsteps coming down from upstairs. My heart dropped when I saw my neighbor (he) who was shirtless and pretty much half asleep while also holding a gun in his hand. We looked at each other straight into the eyes and after about two very tense seconds he recognized me and just started laughing out loud (today when I talked to him he said that he laughed because he could smell the alcohol in me and knew I was drunk). He is a very very good neighbor and I knew he’d be super chill about it like he even walked me back to my place like I was a drunk toddler who wandered off. I apologized about ten times and told him I owed him a bbq and I promised it wouldn’t happen again.
TL;DR: I fucked up by almost getting shot because I went to my neighbor’s house while being drunk. Also, quick tip: if u don’t want me to enter your house at the middle of the night please lock your doors thanks
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You are just following a great tradition of drunks.
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Glad this turned out well!
This happened to a friend of mine… Unfortunately it was in a very high end subdivision of duplexes in a very wealthy part of FL, the homeowner called the cops instead of waking him up, and the cops released a dog into the house instead of confronting him. He got woken up by a dog taking a full bite of his thigh… The judge found him not guilty of burglary but he had to pay the homeowner for getting the blood out of the couch.
I drunkenly went to the wrong floor once and spent way too long trying to get my key to work at 3am. The big dude with a bat in just his boxers was not amused when he finally opened the door.
We had a laugh about it the next day in the elevator but it was a tense moment, glad it turned out ok for you too!
At least it seems like you have a great naieghbor!
I was friends with my wife’s brother since highschool so it was not uncommon for him to just walk into our apartment without knocking. One day, he walzted into our apartment and loudly said, “What’s up mother fuckers!”. We had moved to a new apartment a month prior. He was standing in our old living room staring at a scared and confused Mexican family that was now living there. Needless to say, he was a bit embarrassed when he finally arrived at our new apartment…THAT HE HELPED US MOVE IN TO!
this made my fucking day lmao
My cousins cousin got shot and died that way
This post gave me flashbacks…
Several years ago me and my now fiancee were up really late watching movies and what not (like 3 AM). It is the middle of winter and super cold outside (like, -50+ with the wind-chill)
We’re just laying on the couch in the basement of where I lived, when a dude just comes walking down the stairs, right past us without even noticing us, and goes straight into my bedroom.
I’m so flabbergasted and surprised by it I don’t react immediately, but finally go and grab one of my baseball bats, walk into my room, turn on the light, and go “who the fuck are you, dude?”
He is absolutely plastered. Can’t even form sentences or tell us his name or who he knows or where he was trying to go, but I least can tell he knows he’s fucked up and is at the wrong place.
Eventually get him upstairs and after far too many minutes trying to figure out where he’s supposed to be (he kept giving what I assume home address, which best I could tell was multiple hours away), we tell him we have to call the police, because he can’t stay here, and it’s dangerous for him to be outside (he was in shorts and a T-shirt for some ungodly unknown reason).
When we do this, he bolts out into the cold. I go get bundled up and try to find where he went. He’s just standing outside on the road confused and freezing his ass off. When I tell him the cops are on the way so he doesn’t freeze to death, he disappears.
I’m then standing on my front porch waiting for the police when a neighbor and his wife pull up to their garage. He gets out and goes “Get the car in the garage, and I’ll go try and find the dumbass” which catches my attention. I yell over “Did you lose a friend?”
“Shit. Have you seen him?”
“He stumbled into our house and scared the shit out of us. I think he went that way.”
He manages to find him, but when they’re coming back the cops show up. We listened to the cop have the same problem. Guy can’t even tell them his name or articulate the English language.
I finally told the cop he was harmless, we just didn’t want him to die, and they let the neighbor take him inside.
That neighbor brought us over a $50 gift card for dinner the next day and was profusely thankful. Said the friend was obviously an idiot and they were very sorry.
I think back on what may have happened if me and my fiancee weren’t still up. He would have plopped down on us while sleeping and it would have gone very differently for him from there.
When my mother moved into her condo a little over 10 years ago, my sister and I went out drinking about a week after the move and got a cab home. It was 3AM and we were too drunk to remember which unit was hers. She found us in her neighbour’s bushes the next morning. At least we were only off by one unit.
what’s scary is that his door was open!! imagine if someone who wasn’t an innocent, albeit inebriated neighbor
When I was a kid, my dad stayed in his rental (one bed at the back and 4 at the front, rented) someone called asking for my dad and I wondered into the front 4 bedroom house like it was my own, looking for my dad. Thankfully the tenant that found me was nice and let me aimlessly wonder back out without fuss, embarrassing 😭
And still, Americans don’t see how their “right to bear arms” leads to gun deaths.
Why was your neighbors front door open a crack at 2 am if he was asleep in bed??
Who leaves their door a jar then turns up with a gun when someone enters?
In college I explored the outer limits of my alcoholism. One ski trip I made a similar mistake in rows of cabins that were identical. I woke up to two guys yelling at me asking who I was. Thankfully they were more than reasonable. The lady who ran it found out it was me and asked I never return. Fair enough
I know a guy that did exactly that but with very different outcomes. I heard he was very drunk and walked into the wrong house, thinking it was his, and passed out on the couch. The homeowners ended up calling the cops, and he ended up getting charged and losing all of his scholarships to the college he was accepted to. (this was when he was a senior in HS)
Honestly, he’s a shit guy, so I don’t feel bad for him.
Kudos to your neighbor for properly identifying a potential target before….acting.
Lmao, drunk home invasion but make it wholesome. Glad your neighbor’s chill!
I would buy him something. Like a 100 dollar gift card to a nice restaurant or like a super nice bottle of whisky if he likes it or coke. Something. Friend got felony charges after doing this. And he didn’t shot you by accident which is really nice and shows he is a solid person.
Had something similar happen during the Super Bowl in full daylight a few years ago. We were all just sitting around on the couch when all of a sudden a random guy and his giant dog walk in through the front door that somebody forgot to lock. Cue all of us panicking and shouting for him to get the fuck out. Seemed like he was trying to get to another party somewhere but why the fuck wouldn’t you at least knock????
If you’re drunk enough to get your own house wrong, you may have other issues
Who the hell doesn’t lock their doors?
Oh yeah, this is going to take some brats, steaks, and you might as well throw in some ribs.
I was in Bmore one night enjoying a party in a friends basement we were down there as his parent were asleep upstairs. We were sent out for ice. My gf and I returned to the townhome and found the basement door locked so we went in the front door. It was super dark and we were a bit splurzed and giggling how heavy the ice was as my friend was swinging her arms with the bag and the centrifugal force had made her fall in the door so we decided drop the ice in the kitchen. My friend wondered aloud why it was so dark and we couldnt hear anything at all as I popped on the lights. I was standing next to a fridge and the side was covered by a very large calendar featuring a giant chinese dragon. The front filled with smiling family pictures of a very asian family. Our friend was a couple of races but of none them asian. She let out a stifled scream as she knocked over a glass display tower as we booked out the door. We ran down the rows of now nightmarishly similar houses and soon we saw the red and blue lights flashing off the tops of the buildings a row over. Luckily our friend chose that moment to pop out of his basement as we had been gone a while and our other friends had finally noticed and decided to look for us. We ran so fast we almost knocked him down the steps as we dove into his basement. I dont think either of us stopped shaking for the next two hours.
This happened to my neighbor with during college when he walked into our place. We hadn’t met him yet but instead of realizing it was the wrong place, he doubled down saying it was his and then took a swing at us. A 4 v 1 fight ensued. He got knocked out and woke back up and forgot what happened.