Armchair Anonymous: Home Intruder

24:55We're that kind of family. Okay, okay, that's fine. So Papa shows up. We meet him in the yard. My mom's got that death grip on that knife. And he shows up and he's ready to rumble. Like, he doesn't know who he has to get, what he has to do. By the way, my dad, we don't know where he is. He's gone. My mom's standing out there. She has chonies in one hand and a butcher knife in the other. Because she knows my naked dad is somewhere in the neighborhood. He's going to need to put some slacks on. Cops show up. I think two cars, maybe three. They all get out and they see my papa there looking like Rambo, just ready to rumble.

25:26And they see this woman that's like panicking. And it took four cops to pry her fingers off that knife. She was not letting go of that knife. And she's trying to explain to them, I don't know where my husband is. I don't know what's happening. And then we see this zombie-like creature running down the middle of the street, covered from head to toe in blood with his knee popped out a joint so literally like a zombie running down the street and it's my father and the cops freak they all draw their guns and she's like no that's my husband that's the victim yeah that's the victim the naked bloody guy he runs right past the cops jumps in his van and hauls ass he's gonna go find these guys he's like a hound dog oh he is on the scent and so it turns out we never found him but it clearly was not one person because when we got back in the house the cops went with us to look at all the stuff they'd taken tv stereo equipment speakers my mom's purse which that's another part of the ptsd that kicks in so they had her purse with you know mom wallet back in the day 900 pictures in there so for like six months to a year every time we went anywhere my mom was like that's the guy like she just knew like we don't know what they look like he had a ski mask on and so that was like the trauma that stuck with me forever and so until the day that i met my husband i woke up every single night at 3 30 a.m like in a panic sweat man wow it just doesn't go away now it's in my DNA to like panic every night and have an anxiety attack.

27:04Yeah. So we never found the guy. Luckily, none of us were hurt. But that was the day that clowns became one of my biggest fears. And so that's my little home trigger story from 1981. The thing I'm distracted by, which is not relevant at all, is simply that's another unique thing about the 80s is we too had someone rob our house and they stole a TV and jam boxes. Back in the 80s, a Zenith TV, like a council tv that thing was eleven hundred dollars they used to be such a more significant chunk of your income now everything's free no robber is stealing a 60 inch tv they can't resell it for anything to mention the fact that it probably weighed 500 that's what i'm saying how did they get those tvs out of there i was impressed actually after i thought about it i was like how did they get all of our shit out there without us waking up and where did it go i mean they must have had a u-haul truck in the front yard i don't know but you could have never predicted that the end of this kind of theft would be that just everything got so cheap that it wouldn't be worth it it's just such a bizarre outcome like people just don't do that we have a photo this was literally the 24 hours before now this gives you a little idea of my family that's my crazy dad and my mom and me in the middle you're on a three-wheeler this is so 81 that was my three-wheeler was it a honda it was that is so cute yeah and then the next year i rolled over on that thing fell into a trash pit and cut open my wrist.

28:28So that was also another little trauma. My daughter's got a beautiful scar on her knee from off-road adventuring. You collect receipts, as I say. Those are all stories for the future. Well, Callie, you're delightful. It's such an 80s story, a naked dad climbing a fence. I don't think men try to fight the intruders anymore. I think that's passed mostly, too. I don't know. I know. I don't even think it was in his mind to even think to not chase the guy. What if he had a weapon? I know. No, you don't care about that. You're naked. Let's go. Let's go. Well, Kelly, I'm glad you made it. Dad's kind of a hero in this story.

29:01He hit legend status for this. He's still a legend. Going to be 78 in eight days and still kicking ass, doing all the dad things. Oh, I love it. Well, have a great summer. Enjoy that beach community. Don't get beat up in a cage match. We won't. I don't go to the beach at all in the summer here. We go Northern California. All right, guys. Thank you so much. Take care. Bye. Hello. Mollie? Hello. Tell me about this shirt. I actually just got it on a recent trip to Paris. Oh! I'm going next week. I'm so excited. Are you? Yes. It was incredible. I was there for Fashion Week. Oh! So beginning of March.

29:43It was a dream. Oh my God. Where did you get it? I want to talk to you about shopping. There was an incredible consignment shop that we found on the first day. I was actually there. I worked at a consignment shop and our boss took us. It was a dream. Oh! And we found another consignment shop, and it's where I did all my shopping. Well, for the listener, your shirt, if I had to give it a title, if it was hanging in a museum, the name of the shirt would be Fuck You Convention. Because you've mixed leopard print and plaid, which I think is a no-no in fashion. No, there's not really no-nos. Yeah, there were.

30:15They were like, you can't wear this kind of pattern in stripes. I know, but if you had style, you could get away with anything. Okay, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm glad we talked about this. Yeah. I thought leopard and plaid didn't go together, but now I see they do. In my opinion, plaid is neutral. Neutral, yeah. And where are you at, Molly, in the country? I'm in Canada, on the West Coast. In BC? Victoria. Oh, great. Okay, so you have a home intruder story. I do. This happened February of 2020, so right before the pandemic. Bad year for you. Yeah, 2020 was a year. It was a small year. I was home. It was about 8 p.m.

30:54in the evening. So not in the middle of the night when our imagination typically thinks these things happen. My husband was putting our eight-year-old to bed and our two upstairs sleeping in their crib. And I was at our dining room table doing my evening ritual of puzzling, drinking wine, and listening to my true crime podcast. Sounds like you've got a really dreamy husband. He's like, hon, go ahead and drink some wine, listen to your true crime podcast, build a puzzle, and I'll put the kids to bed. This sounds like you've got a real winner. I do. He's the best. Even though bedtimes were a tricky time for us, we typically traded back and forth.

31:35But this was his night. It feels like a wrestling match. Like, okay, let's do it. Exactly. Our dining room had a glass two-way swinging door between our dining room and our kitchen. and I was at the dining room table with my back to the glass door. And actually to note, earlier in the evening, I had clocked that our back door was unlocked and said to myself, you know, I'm going to let the dog out again before I go upstairs. I'll lock it after I let the dog out. Victoria's a very safe city for the most part. I grew up here and my parents never locked the door when I was growing up. So I'm sitting doing my puzzle and all of a sudden, like not a sound happens, but I just had that spidey sense that like, You got to clock your surroundings.

32:17And I turn around and there's a strange man standing in my kitchen. Who's looking at you or back to you? He's facing me. I clock immediately. This guy's not looking anywhere. He is under the influence of something. He's kind of staring off into nothingness. I can tell immediately. And as I'm processing this man, there's a door between us and four feet at most. What's he look like? Caucasian, maybe 20s. Smaller. He's an addict. He's skinny. He's not in full weight. I clocked out immediately. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't look healthy. No. As I'm processing what I'm seeing, I watch him look at the counter and pick up the chef's knife.

33:03Oh, my God. Oh, boy. And at this point, I start running through the house screaming. My husband hears. He's fast asleep in our kid's bedroom. Her bedroom is on the main floor, which is where I am. He comes out. He has no idea what's happening. Now you have two disoriented males. Exactly. I scream at him. There's a man in the kitchen with a knife. He runs one way and I run the other. This is the last I see of him for a while. I grab my daughter out of her bed and haul her up the stairs. I grab my baby out of their crib. I just close us because I don't have a lock on my en suite. in our ensuite bathroom and I call 911.

33:47I have my phone, thankfully. I didn't know this, but when you call 911, you don't necessarily have your phone call picked up immediately. It's so annoying, actually. Sometimes it just rings. There's not a dispatcher available to take the call, I suppose. This felt like it went on for 15 minutes. Of course, I'm trying to stay calm. My two-year-old is fast asleep, hasn't woken up, but my eight-year-old is clocking what's happening and I'm really trying to stay calm for her. Finally, somebody picks up the call. I tell them that there's a man in my house with a knife, the address, all those things.

34:29I don't remember what other questions she asked me, but I do know that even though the phone call took a long time to go through, there was already cops in our neighborhood and they got to the house really quickly. I was only on the phone for like two minutes before she said there was somebody at the house. Oh, great. That's comforting. But then as I'm still on the phone with her, at one point she goes, ma 'am, you need to tell your husband under no circumstance should he ever go after the perpetrator. I'll be sure to tell him that later tonight when this is over. I'm going to go interrupt right now.

35:01Hey, P.S., don't chase this guy. Yeah. After a few more minutes on the phone with her, I hear somebody come up the stairs. Of course, I know the cops are already there. I assume it's going to be someone I want to see. but there's still also when you're hiding, I don't know who's coming through the door. It was my husband who came and grabbed us and we come downstairs and there's 10 cops in my house. And I immediately go, where's the dog? And they're like, there's a dog in this house? Because that's actually usually something that they want to know before they come into a house. And I said, oh yeah, we have 110 pound Catahoula American Bulldog Cross.

35:39Oh. Guard dog. Nobody has seen or heard from her. Well, where was he at the job when this guy first came in? What was he or she doing? Exactly. My husband, Logan, immediately runs outside thinking in the commotion, maybe she left, followed him out the door. One of the cops asks me to step into our spare room with him to get my statement. Turn on the light in the spare room. I still have my kids clinging to me. Our dog is on the bed shaking. She doesn't respond to the large man in uniform. I've never, not again, not before that, had ever seen my dog like this. And Logan comes back in the house and closes the door.

36:25And that's when she gets up and starts barking. Not helpful. Weird. How do we explain this? She's a coward? I can tell you, she knew she fucked up. From that day on, she was alerting us to every minute thing that happened. Trying to make up for her failure. Absolutely. Wow. So she was there for the whole thing and just stayed quiet on a bed shaking. Yeah. Okay. So she gets a D. A D for dog. So when you finally heard from your husband, what was his interaction? Did he interact with the guy in the kitchen? Oh, yeah. He ran at this man. He tackled him, smashed his hand to get the knife out of his hand.

37:04picked him up and carried him out of the house. At that point, this guy got up and started running. And this is when the dispatcher scolded me because my husband ran up the street after this guy and tackled him to the ground. Luckily, the cops showed up just then because my biggest fear was actually that my husband was going to hurt this guy. In my mind, that was kind of a worst case scenario. My husband is going to hurt this man. And God forbid he kill him in self-defense and protecting his family. But we're not recovering from that. Nobody was hurt. The guy, his name was actually Cody, was arrested that night.

37:44And was actually only in jail for not even 24 hours before he made bail. We did press charges. It went to court. He was charged with breaking and entering and brandishing a weapon. It was a really sad story, though. He was put up to it. He was an addict. Was he there to rob? Probably get money for drugs. Yeah. It actually just made me feel sad for him. It was a relief to know there was no intent. He just tried my door and it happened to be open. Oh, wow. What was his sentence? Probation? I think so. Actually, to be honest, I didn't really follow it. This was the biggest surprise to me. And after all of this, I immediately get on the phone with my therapist going, I've just experienced trauma.

38:29I need a session ASAP. We got to process this. I get to my therapy appointment and I'm like, yeah, like this is traumatizing. I'm going to be traumatized. How do I deal with this trauma that's going to happen to me? And she's like, going to happen? And I was like, well, I feel fine right now, but like this has to be traumatizing. And she asks me, what would you have done differently given the opportunity to relive this experience? And I go, well, I protected my kids. My husband protected us. No one was hurt. He was arrested. There's absolutely nothing that I would have done differently. The dog needs therapy, but other than that, yeah, dog definitely needs some sessions.

39:13Yeah. It was a great lesson in remembering how trauma works. And that it's not something that happens to you. It's something that happens in your body as a response to something. And it really wasn't a traumatizing experience in the for any of us, which is great. It was a crazy thing that happened. Yeah, I've heard a great saying, someone talking about don't mind for trauma. Don't be trying to find it and dig for it. You'll probably get some. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll come by some honestly. Well, Molly, you have a very Scandinavian response to this whole thing. It's very like, I get it. Life is complicated.

39:45People have struggles. Sometimes they end up in your house and that's part of doing business on planet Earth. Yeah. So it sounds like as good of a version as you can have, really. Kind of, yeah. Well, it was very nice to meet you. Yeah, very nice to meet you. Enjoy that beautiful Canadian summer. Really nice to meet you both too. All right, take care. Have a good one.

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43:28lynn that's me hi where are you lynn i'm in illinois outside of chicago oh let's go rob yeah what part originally downers grove i know downers grove that's not far from me that's where our story takes place okay i just want to point out that your surroundings currently are so immaculate. I would love to be invited into your home. It's so clean and orderly. Anytime my daughter would love it. Okay. So you have a home intrusion story. Well, not exactly. It wasn't an intruder. My husband actually let her in. Oh, okay. Well, set the stage for us. And by the way, we're not strict, so we don't care. It could be anything for us.

44:11Okay. So it was Thursday, 2008, 2.30 in the morning. My husband's leaving for work. He was a commercial garbage bin. He's backing out of the drive and there's a person there. So he stops. She knocks on his window. It's a young woman. She said she needs help. She needs to call her dad. Can she use the phone? So he brings her in the house. He comes down, wakes me up and says, Hey Lynn, you got to wake up. I let this girl in. She's got to use the phone. I got to go to work. And he leaves. Oh boy. Oh no. 2.30 in the morning. 2.30 in the morning. So I get up, I go upstairs. Here's this young girl, woman.

44:51She has a cami on. What's a cami? Like a tank top. Yeah, skinny straps. Okay. Yeah, her underwear. Oh. And a towel from my utility room wrapped around her waist. No. Swear to God, nothing else. Wow. I'm kind of impressed your husband got right out of there to go to work. Yeah, it's kind of a feather in his cap that he didn't want to help her make the call. I look at her from her fingertips to just below her elbows. her arms are covered in blood. They literally look like if you dipped them in a bucket and then pulled them out. So we go in the utility room. We run the water. We're going to clean this all up.

45:26She starts telling me that her husband is a Downers Grove police officer trying to kill her. And she just needs to call her dad so that he can come get her. So we have a daughter. She's 17. She's asleep on the sofa in the family room at this point. This girl's cleaning up. We call her the bloody lady because the bloody lady upstairs cleaning up we got a fun sneaker we got a home intruder yeah you got someone in your background that's my daughter the one 17 year old yeah so I go get her some sweatpants my beauty and the beast sweatshirt some socks I take them up in the meantime I grab band-aids neosporin bectine anything that we might need I get upstairs she puts on the clothes.

46:15We go to the kitchen table. At this point, all the kitchen lights are on. It's like 2.40 in the morning. We are lit up like you cannot believe. Outside lights on for her dad, hall lights on. I mean, you could land a plane. I was like, okay, we need to shut some of these lights off. So we start bandaging her up. Stuff is on the table. I start shutting off all the lights. I tell her, call your dad back. Tell him to call us when he gets close. I'll put the light on. So I'm shutting lights. My daughter comes up. She's like, what is going on? I said, you know what? I don't really know. So take your phone, go in your room, lock the door.

46:53I don't know if her husband's going to come looking for her or what. I really didn't want to be in the middle of this at 2.40 in the morning. It's also very complicated because you can't call the police in theory. In theory. If she's to be taken at her word, the bloody lady. All of a sudden I look out and I look across the street, I see movement. I turned to the kitchen. I said, do you and your husband have a dog? She starts coming into the living room. She goes, what kind of dog? At this point, a flashlight from across the street shines into our living room. I said, get down. And I flew into the hallway.

47:25The flashlight gets closer as it's coming in through the living room window now. So I hightail it into the hall. I assume she's, you know, behind the island or in the utility room. I'm not sure. Lynn, can I ask one quick question? Sure. Were you getting a sense of her at all during this process? Like that she was delusional or normal? Are you assessing whether she's crazy or not? She seemed like something was going on and I just need to call my dad. Yeah. Was she upset? Yeah. It's like she needed to call her dad and she needed her dad to come get her, but not in a crazy person. No, not at all.

48:05So the light came in the living room. I fly around the corner. We're kind of just waiting. We don't know what to do. You know, you're just sitting there. I could feel my heart beating in my ears so loud. And then I hear voices around the back and I hear this is the house. There's medical supplies on the table. I crawled to my daughter's room down the hall. I'm like sticking my lips underneath the door, very quietly saying, call 911. At the same time, they're banging on the front door and I'm watching the front door. It's like literally moving in and out. There's voices in the back, voices in the front.

48:42All of a sudden, my daughter comes out of her room. She goes, here, you talk to them. She called 911, stated her name, her address, and said, somebody's trying to break in my house. You need to send the police. The first thing was, are you sure you're not expecting someone? What? She was like, for the love of God, it's 2.45 a.m. Yeah. Probably not. Yeah. Then it was the police are at your house. And she's like, these are the wrong police. And they were like, open the door, let them in. So she gave me the phone. So they're like, open the door, let them in. And I was like, no, I don't know who this is.

49:18We just kept arguing. So I got off the phone. I opened the door. There was an officer standing at my door. there were at least four squad cars in front of our house, like a movie and so surreal. So he steps right in right away and he's like, where is she? You know, and I was like in the kitchen. So he starts berating us. My daughter was out of her room standing next to me and he's like, you didn't think to call the police? And I was like, not really. She needed to call her dad. That was fine by me. She said her husband was a cop. Like, no, she wanted to call her dad. That's all we were doing. So they were just jabbering at us.

49:55We felt like criminals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Why are you interrogating me, hotshot? Right. So they're like, you know, where is she? So they go in the kitchen. She's gone. Oh, no. Oh, boy. My AT &T cordless phone, gone. I was like, oh, my God. Well, she left it in the utility room. The cop found it. He goes, there's blood on it. You probably want to clean it up, put gloves on. I was like, thank you, Yeah. They were in for a while. Then they were outside. When they did come in, we heard they had a walkie talkie thing on their shoulder. And one of them came across that said the Sybaris is cleared or secured or something like that.

50:35Well, the Sybaris is one of those romantic getaways. You know, they have swimming pools in the room and it's pretty gross. Oh, it's like a name of a hotel for honeymooners? Well, it's like just a romantic, you know, who knows? Just for fucking, yeah. Like a motel. Yeah, okay. Just like quickies. Yeah. And it's like a block away. So it made sense why she didn't have any clothes on. Oh. So before they left, the cops said, or one of them, it wasn't the same one. He said she was on drugs. Her husband isn't a police officer in Downers Grove or anywhere else. And then they left. Had they caught her or we don't know yet.

51:10she's just gone they said that they got her outside she's in custody so then everybody leaves my daughter and i take our phones we go in my room i call her out of school i call work i tell them this horrific like the bloody lady was here and the police came they were assholes we tried to go to sleep and we were like it's not happening so we both got up she went to school i went to work nine ten o 'clock in the morning i was like oh my god she's gonna get home from school before my husband or I get home from work. And who did we give instructions to? Was it her dad? Was it not? Somebody has instructions to our house.

51:52So I called the Downers Grove police and I tell the woman, we had all this activity last night and my daughter's gonna get home and she's like, hang on. Yeah, you know what? There's no activity at your house last night. What? What? Trust me, there was. and she's like, no, there was no activity in your area. I said, oh, no, no, no, no. There was activity in front of my house. There were four to six squad cars. The police were in my house. Like I didn't get their name. It was all pretty crazy. You talked to 911. There's gotta be a record of that. She put me on hold. Pretty soon a man came on. He was like, yeah, I was at your house last night.

52:34It's fine. What is going on? It's not. I don't know who we gave instructions to. We got him. We got her. We got him. We intercepted him before he got there. It's fine. So I don't know who he was. My daughter, one of her good friends, the dad was either like a captain or a sergeant in the Downers Grove Police Department. So as my daughter told her friend, her friend was like, what the F? She's like, I'm calling my dad. So she calls. She's like, dad, what the hell's going on? What happened? And he said, yeah, I can't talk about it. So that was 18 years ago. She still has my Beauty and the Beast sweatshirt.

53:14I never got it back. And we have no idea what ever happened. This is a crazy mystery. And also, how did that police officer tell you that nothing happened that night? Maybe she just didn't know. You think it's a cover up? I don't know. A hush up? I don't know. That is Lynn. You're so fun. You're a perfect mother for this scenario. So a few weeks later I called my daughter out of school. I said, we're going on vacation for a week. And they were like, yeah, that would be an unexcused. I said, no, it was. I just told you I'm taking her. They were like, you have to talk to the dean. I said, by all means, he got on the phone.

53:58I said, look, This is what we had to deal with. We're going to Florida for a week. And he said, OK. Yeah, good. Did you go to Daytona? We went to Fort Lauderdale. We had a hotel on the beach, walked out. It was very nice. No bloody lady. No bloody lady. No. And we told my husband never again. Yeah. But also, what was he supposed to do? There's a girl saying, I need help. What's he going to do? Ignore it? A couple of years later, because he was a commercial garbage man and he was near Good Samaritan hospital and he came home from work one day and he said, you'll be very proud of me. He said, I was driving on a route, passing the hospital.

54:36He said, there was a woman in the driveway of the hospital in a gown waving at him. And he said, I just kept going. You got to make your wife happy first. My son actually said, maybe she'll listen. If this ever gets aired, maybe she'll call in and say, I'm the bloody lady. Yes, you'll have to send us a photo of the sweatshirt so we can confirm. One thing is, I have to tell you, Parenthood, probably one of my favorite shows, so I told my daughter I would have to tell you that. And can she say hello to you? Of course. Hi, guys. Hi. That was Lynn. Who are you? I'm Samantha. Hi, Samantha. You were sleeping on the couch?

55:20I sure was. Crazy story that we've told for many, many years. And I'm a day one arm cherry. And I've been listening and listening. And so finally this prompt came up. And it probably could have been wildcard too. But I was like, mom, we have to submit. This was perfect. Your mom's so fun. Oh, my God. What a firecracker. She's the best. Yeah. She's a beautiful mix of a Midwesterner and a New Yorker. There's a lot of go fuck yourself in her. Love it. Absolutely love it. Great. She's going to love it. And was there any detail that she left out you want to tell us about or anything she got wrong? Do you remember this woman?

55:54I can't remember her face or anything. I was shaking. I was so scared. I remember they tackled her in the backyard. And they also did say that it was kind of like a drug deal hookup gone bad. And that she jumped through the window at the Sybaris. That's what the cuts are about. Supposedly, but we never saw any damage to the Sybaris. Huh. A lot of question marks. It was never in the paper. Is the Sybaris still in action? Sure is. There are definitely still people utilizing that Sybaris. And have you yourself ever stayed at the Sybaris? No, sir. Okay. Yeah, you're a good woman. I've been to that Sybaris.

56:28Wait, Rob, you've been to the Sybaris? I have. To make love? Did you go there to make love? With a girlfriend. No! Oh my God, were you guys in a hot tub and stuff? We didn't learn anything about the bloody lady, but we're learning a lot about Rob. Rob might have been there for this. I'm glad Rob knows all about it. Yeah, this has been a delight. Yes, so nice to see you. It's so nice to meet you and your mom. Could not have gotten a better mama. Hug her on our behalf. Thank you for telling that story. That was incredible. Absolutely. Thank you, guys. All right. Take care. Bye. I want to go to their house for dinner and then go to the Sybaris.

57:00The Sybaris sounds like the Neptune Inn. What's it called? In Veronica Mars? It's worse. Why did you go there, Rob? When you're 19 and you have a girlfriend and you can't go home? You're so disgusting. I love it, Rob. Rascal. It was like an anniversary or something. Why didn't you? You should have just done it outside at that point. Yeah, in the park. I feel like you're too hygienic for the Sybaris. I don't think I was thinking about that element of it at that point. That came later in life. Different part of your brain. There's like a waterfall pool in the room. It sounds like it smells like chlorine in every room.

57:34It sounds disgusting. It was gross. Public water that other people have been fucking in. What's the place in Veronica Mars? Neptune Inn or something? and that's where everyone would go and be skeezy and sleazy. For their naughty business. Yeah. All right. Okay. Don't break in. We had one, but luckily I didn't interface with the person we discovered after the fact they had been in the house. That's preferred. That you don't know. Yeah. Yeah, obviously. Especially with my temperament. What am I going to do? How am I going to survive this? Well, you'll lock your doors. That was back when we were still pretending we lived in the Midwest, but now we've learned our lessons.

58:09Should I lock my bedroom door? People say don't do that Because of firefighters? Yeah, or like if I have a seizure and no one can get in What's the point? Because if someone wants to get through your bedroom door They will No, but if I hear it moving I can just start screaming I just called 911, you're in trouble No, you gotta go on your balcony and jump off Yeah, you should have a little rope That's more the move No, you keep it under your bed It's got a grappling hook You quickly run, throw the grappling hook around the railing And then you go over the side I think panic room's still the move for you.

58:41Oh, yeah, under the bed. Panic bed. Panic bed. Panic box bed. I forgot about that. It's a coffin. It's a tomb. Monica Padman's Celebrity Panic Box Beds. Check them out. This is a great idea. It is. It just lowers wherever you were sleeping. Just lowers and the top closes in. They can be chic. Yeah. Like, I'll make them cute. And you might even prefer sleeping in the interior of the mattress. But if you're claustrophobic, ooh, it's tough. That's not a move for you. But you probably are less claustrophobic than you are homicidophobic. a cytophobic. I am, yeah. Me personally. Yeah, I think most people probably.

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