One Night....

We were living in a two bedroomed kitchen house and because of unfortunate circumstances I had to share a room with my father. My mother was a very easily excited person and I had learned to shout "It's all right, Mother" if she got excited. One night while asleep in bed, I woke up confused and heard my mother shouting "Oh, my God, what's that?". Having heard an almighty bang she thought bombs were dropping. I automatically answered "It's all right, Mother!" and a voice below answered "It's not *$!* all right. I've fallen out!". I realised then that I was holding on to the mattress tightly. My father had fallen out of bed becuase the bed spring had collapsed. Because it was so dark I had to grope to the bottom of the bed to get out so that I wouldn't step on him. I switched on the light and found Dad enveloped in the bed clothes on the floor! Laughing I went to help him. He got annoyed because I was laughing. I finaly unentangled him from the bed clothes and we finally put the bed together again and went to sleep. No bombs last night Mother - just Dad!

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