I have to share this TRUE story that Lars heard circulating around his workplace. Again, let me repeat--TRUE STORY.
It Norway, some people with Down's Syndrome have personal nurses. As I understand it, the nurse is available via phone to answer questions or help the patient with any problems that might arise. One particular man with DS (let's call him Bob) called his personal nurse one day, petrified because of a troll that was outside his front door.
'Now Bob,' the nurse explained. 'We have been over this before. There is no such thing as trolls, and there is certainly not a troll outside your door. Just calm down and we will talk tomorrow, okay?'
Frustrated, Bob hung up, but only to call back 10 minutes later.
'No you don't understand, it's still there, there is really a troll outside my door, and it is scary, and it is real, and I am scarrrrrreeeeeed.' Bob whined.
The nurse calmed him down again, repeating the same story as the first time around and hung up again hoping that Bob would get over his delusion and that the nurse could take a break for the evening and relax.
And then the phone rang again. Yep, you guessed it--Bob. But this time things were a bit different...
Bob schreeched, 'I locked the troll in my bathroom and I am standing outside the door guarding it so it can't get out! What do I do?!?'
At this point, the nurse gave up all hope of a quiet evening at home and realized he'd better get over to Bob's house to calm him down, see what the heck what was going inside that house, or more likely what was going on inside Bob's head. He made it over in record time and hesitantly approached the bathroom door.
'Now you'll see,' Bob said defiantly. 'I wasn't making anything up!'
At this point the nurse started getting a bit scared. Not because he also had an irrational fear of trolls, but because he was so bewildered and anxious about what could possible be awaiting him behind that solid wooden door. He slowly turned the knob, and creaked open the hinges and gasped when he saw that there actually was a someone locked behind Bob's bathroom door! A small someone that is---there was a DWARF in Bob's bathroom!
Bob has mistakenly taken a short person, a dwarf, that was going door to door selling things, as a troll! Just imagine the process that poor Bob went through...the phone calls, the terror, the peaking out the curtains and the peephole at this little man, and then finally the capture! The poor little dwarf!! Bob captured a real person and stuffed and locked him in his bathroom!! HAHA!
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