Banging the drum
One of my regular readers, Nina, has sent in another story about someone she once lived with who had a passion for playing the drums....
"I shared a house one time with a close family friend. A lovely bloke and we are still friends. This one story I thought Id share because it always makes me laugh when I remember it. He was/is a keen drummer. He even had his drumkit in his upstaris bedroom at the house. We had a rule which he abided by that out of respect for us and the neighbours he only practised at certain times of the day. We were down the Pub one night playing pool. We got talking with the people who we were playing and it turned out that one of the guys was a new tenant in the house next door to us. I asked him if we made any noise that bothered them. He said we were generally fine exept for one night when someone was playing the drums at about 5 in the morning. I knew my housemate never played at that time of the a.m and we had to think for a while what the noise might have been. It was then that we recalled. He had been out on the turps that night till very late. Another friend of ours had turned up about half an hour later to see us. My housemate had just got in himself and crashed out. his friend was trying to get him out of bed so they could go on some road trip they had planed (thats why he turned up so early in the morning)which my flatmate had forgotten about. Anyway my housemate comes out of his room at the top of the stairs to see our guest. He was wrapped up in his quilt. His foot slipped on the quilt and he went tumbling down the steep staircase hitting every step on the way down then crashing into the wheel of my pushbike which was parked at the bottom of the stairs. It sounded like a drum roll and a symbol crash. We often teased him later that it was the best beat he'd come up with! It solved the mystery of the phantom drums at 5 am too." I'm not sure I'd be able to share with someone who was musically inclined.....I have enough trouble with the people at work that like to sing and whistle their way through the day - arrrgghh!!!--------
