A married couple was asleep when the wife suddenly woke her husband at 2 a.m.<\/p>\n
She whispered,<\/p>\n
\u201cWake up! I think there’s a burglar downstairs!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The husband groaned and pulled the blanket over his head.<\/p>\n \u201cCall the police.\u201d<\/p>\n A few minutes later, she shook him again.<\/p>\n \u201cHoney\u2026 I heard footsteps!\u201d<\/p>\n He finally sat up.<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, okay!\u201d<\/p>\n He grabbed a baseball bat and slowly walked downstairs.<\/p>\n He checked the kitchen.<\/p>\n Nothing.<\/p>\n He checked the living room.<\/p>\n Nothing.<\/p>\n He looked behind the curtains.<\/p>\n Nothing.<\/p>\n He even checked the back door.<\/p>\n It was locked.<\/p>\n Finally, he walked back upstairs.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody’s there,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n His wife stared at him calmly.<\/p>\n \u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n He frowned.<\/p>\n \u201cThen why did you wake me up?\u201d<\/p>\n She pointed toward the hallway.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause the burglar is already upstairs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The husband froze.<\/p>\n His eyes slowly moved toward the dark hallway.<\/p>\n A floorboard creaked.<\/p>\n Then another.<\/p>\n He tightened his grip on the bat.<\/p>\n \u201cWHO’S THERE?!\u201d<\/p>\n No answer.<\/p>\n He slowly stepped forward.<\/p>\n Suddenly, a figure jumped out from behind the bedroom door.<\/p>\n The husband screamed and swung the bat.<\/p>\n THUMP!<\/strong><\/p>\n The figure fell to the floor.<\/p>\n The husband turned on the light.<\/p>\n And froze.<\/p>\n It was\u2026<\/p>\n their teenage son.<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy sat on the floor, holding his nose.<\/p>\n \u201cDad! What are you doing?!\u201d<\/p>\n The wife covered her mouth.<\/p>\n \u201cOh my goodness!\u201d<\/p>\n The husband stared at her.<\/p>\n \u201cYou knew it was him?!\u201d<\/p>\n She nodded.<\/p>\n \u201cHe came home an hour ago.\u201d<\/p>\n The husband looked furious.<\/p>\n \u201cThen why did you tell me there was a burglar?!\u201d<\/p>\n She smiled innocently.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause I wanted you to finally find out who keeps stealing money from my purse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Their son slowly raised his hand.<\/p>\n \u201cMom\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCan we discuss the fact that Dad just hit me with a baseball bat first?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The husband sighed.<\/p>\n The wife looked at him.<\/p>\n Then at their son.<\/p>\n Then smiled.<\/p>\n \u201cFamily meeting. Right now.\u201d<\/strong> \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A married couple was asleep when the wife suddenly woke her husband at 2 a.m. She whispered, \u201cWake up! I think there’s a burglar downstairs!\u201d The husband groaned and pulled … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytv9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}