Trolls, Leprechauns, and Other mystical creatures

A good friend of mine is a nurse at the hospital.  She has a 20 year old son, who is challenged.  A couple of days ago, she was in the middle of a 12 hour shift when he called her.

"Mama!  Mama!  I caught a troll!  I did!  I saw him, and I caught him, and I got a troll."

Troll? What on earth is he talking about? "Okay baby, you got a troll.  I have to work now.  Love you!" And hangs up.

A couple hours later he calls back. 

"Mama!  I got my troll!"

She has patients and is running around and super busy.  "Yay!  Okay baby, you have fun!  Mommy has to go to work now."

The calls continue here and there for the remainder of her shift.  She was so busy and while a little confused, thought nothing of it.

She finally got off work and returned home to her son.  She wasn't in the house 5 minutes when she heard a knocking coming from down the hall.  She looked at her son curiously, who repeated for the billionth time,

"I got a troll!"

Panicked now, she runs down the hallway to find the knocking coming from a closet that had been barracaded shut.  She opened the door slowly and peered around the edge.

There stood the meter maid.

Who happens to be a little person.

Mortified, she realized that the poor man had been locked in her closet all day long.  And while understanding, was NOT happy about it.

**After I stopped laughing and changed into clean underwear from having peed my pants, all I could think was, that I would love to be a fly on the wall when he tells his boss why he only read one meter that day.**

Happy Friday!