For today’s Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop, I chose the prompt:
1.) Write about a time you had to crawl through a window.
The only time I recall having to crawl through a window involves my friend, Bev.
(Bev and me, years after the window incident.)
I’ve mentioned that we go back a long way.
The window episode happened during the winter of 1986-87. Thankfully, there are no pictures. Bev, her husband and their young son lived a couple houses down the street from us. At the time this story took place, Bev was probably five or six months pregnant with their second child.
Early one morning, Bev knocked on my door. She was in her pj’s and robe. Her son was in pre-school, and when his ride had come that morning, she had gone out to see him off to school.
And locked herself out of the house.
Her husband was working out of town. I can’t really say that I was her only hope, but I was the nearest person to come to for help. There was one window in their house that wasn’t locked. It was the one over the kitchen sink, and even though it wasn’t a second story window, it wasn’t on ground level either.
My memory gets a little fuzzy here (it was a long time ago). I don’t recall whether I used a ladder or climbed on a garbage can. But somehow I climbed up to the window. And for some reason, perhaps because I wasn’t accustomed to climbing into windows, I went in backside first. And, although I don’t recall exactly how it happened, my backside landed right in the kitchen sink, where her breakfast dishes were soaking.
This story sounds preposterous, but that’s really the way it happened. I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Of course, Bev was still standing on the ground below the window. So I had to yell down to her and explain that my bottom was in her frying pan. That set off a giggling fit for both of us that made it almost impossible for me to pull myself up out of the sink.
That girl owes me.
these days of mine 
That’s funny, I can just picture it! I never remember crawling in or out of any windows.
I did the joke prompt: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2011/07/joke-that-always-makes-me-laugh-writers.html
Tell Bev I will NEVER forgive her for not taking a picture of you with your wet butt in her frying pan!!LOL!!
(You forgot to mention that her daughter who was married in your yard with the ‘bride and groom’ swan attending the reception is the baby she was pregnant with at the time.)
That’s true friendship!
haha! Now you are the friend I’d want to have down the street!! I can hear the giggles!
You are a friend…ready for anything.
That is a good one. What a good friend you are to soak for another.
Good friends are hard to find but I think your friendship has lasted even though you have to climb in windows for her. True friend! But then that’s the way you are!
That is hilarious! I’m betting Bev appreciated you so much! It wouldn’t be easy to get through the window 6 months preggers – so kudos to you for getting a bit dirty and helping a neighbor in need 🙂
Great story! You made me smile hugely!
Oh My Goodness!!! That is a great story!! Totally sounds like something that could’ve happened to me.
I remember this story! But I hadn’t heard it in a while … true friendship all the way !
oh this is too cute! thanks for the visual!
I am laughing out loud! Bless your heart for taking a hit for a friend in need.
hahaha……great story, a wonderful memory & definately rocking chair talk for the future.
That’s HILARIOUS! If I had been Bev, I would have been rolling my pregnant self around on the grass in laughter!
Yah, I’d say she owes you. Big time!
How funny! And a great laugh to get my day going! I’ll be chuckling about this all day. 🙂
*LOL* Very cute story indeed!
You couldn’t have staged that landing even if you had tried! Very funny! I let the screen door slam shut one time and the hook bounced into the little ring thingy, locking me out. Inside was my baby girl. I don’t remember exactly how we got it open; maybe slid something in the crack and raised the hook?
what a hoot! and that’s what good friends are for
Well, now I know who to call if I lock myself out. lol What a great story. Yes, truth IS stranger than fiction!
I’ve hoisted a child through a window before, but don’t think I’ve been through one! Funny story! A good morning chuckle!
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I LOVE it! Made me laugh and it’s always good to laugh!
I wrote on the same prompt…well, sort of 🙂
http://gleaninggrace.blogspot.com/2011/07/out-window.html
That was definitely a missed photo op! You did a great job of recreating the image through words!
This was such a cute post and I so enjoyed reading it!! I agree you recreated the event wonderfully through your writing!!
LOL, I just had a giggling fit of my own trying to envision this. 🙂 Great story!
I can only imagine how hard you two must have been laughing through this entire process! Hahaha!
This, from the ‘introvert’ of yore! You have certainly blossomed into a delightful, fun-loving person
Love this!!
What a great story and memory!!!!!!!!!!!!