I have been known to make an occasional bad decision but tonight tops the list.

Recently, I have been swimming at night enjoying the newly remodeled backyard pool. Because I can, I will sometimes take my suit off and swim, with the pool light off, in the nude. It is a wonderfully relaxing feeling and a perfect way to end the evening before bed.

Tonight I decided I to skip the bathing suit all together and I wrapped a towel around me while still in the house and went out to swim in the pool. Mom came out at some point to chat a bit while I paddled around but soon went back into the house.

After about 30 minutes I decided it was time to go in and so I got out of the pool, wrapped myself in a beach towel and headed for the back door. I noticed the light was turned off on the porch and a feeling of dread came over me. I tried the door knob and it was locked. All the lights where off in the house and both back doors were locked.

I really didn’t want to scare Mom by banging on her bedroom window to wake her and was also a bit apprehensive that she would know it was me or be able to hear me.

We have a hide a key in the front of the house in a lock box. So naked, except for a beach towel, I crept into the front yard to the lock box only to realize I could not see the combination without my glasses!

My second option was the window to my bedroom which was open, but is fronted by a rose-bush. In my current state of exposure I wisely decided against that painful option, not to mention the risk of a neighbor seeing God knows what as I heaved myself through! I finally realized my only hope was trying to wake up Mom.

I banged on her window to no avail until Timmy started to bark. Mom woke up asking, to no one in particular, what that noise was. I said “Mom it is Monica” She yelled out “Ok so where are you?”. I replied that I was standing outside of her window. She said “So what.” I yelled “Mom you locked me out of the house and you need to come to the back door to let me in.” She asked me “What?” at least three more times and I replied the same until finally, to my relief, she understood and came to unlock the back door.

There are so many lessons in this one I am not sure where to start…….