Ah... what the heck ... I will tell you about this 'big test' and the trials that must be passed when one approaches the threshold
The sun rises and I awake in the alley. I hear noises in the house I was to stay at, they are awake now so I knock on the door, explaining I didnt want to wake them at 4 am .
They tell me I am nuts, they are all off to work (its a big house, with a few people living there ) my friend says I can use her room, the shower, the kitchen, make yourself at home, I will be back at 5 pm. )
So I have a shower, and then go into the kitchen and put some coffee on, I am wearing only a towel. Then I hear a noise, I had opened the door to let some air in and just in the door, their cat has a bird, still alive that it is torturing. So I get the cat bird off the cat and take it outside, still in the towel and let it go .....
... slam ... the front door ... could have been the wind, but I not convinced it couldnt have been the cat
I try it, its locked, I go around the back, its locked, all the windows are barred ... I am in towel ... Oh shiiiit! .
I have nothing but a towel on. I go to the corner shop, and the greek old man and his wife there are ... lets say a little suspicious ... I mange to explain to them and they let me borrow their phone book and give me money to use the public phone. I eventually find the company where my friend works and ring her to see if she can send a key on a taxi or something, but they say she just went out with a client and will not be back until after lunch.
So now I am back on the street, in a towel, in an inner city urban environment. I look up to the third floor and it has a little attic room and the window is open .... yes!
There is a drain pipe running up the wall, next to the window. ..... Naaah! climbing up a drain pipe in a towel , besides, sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
But then I notice there are buiders down the street ... with a ladder .... a ladder !
I manage to convince them I am not some crazy street guy and they decide to laugh and help me. They hold the ladder steady and I climb up, by now all dignity has gone 'out the window' as I am 2 stories up and my towel is flapping in the wind.
I am just about to reach that window and ... ahead pops out "What the hell are you doing ! ? "
I explain , still on the ladder, and he says, he is one of the girls boyfriends that stayed over from last night and slept in. "Why the hell didnt you just knock on the front door?"
"Well, I was told everyone was going out for the day, I didnt know you where in there."
So I climbed down the ladder, and thaned the builders, who were now giving me the most 'you are a dumbarse' look, and knocked on the door.
And when I was let in ... I swear, that cat was going me a real smart arse look
But ! I persevered ... I made it ... I triumphed ..... < a little fanfare ... victory dance >
... Oh ! I better put something else on other than this towel before I do that !