*It was creepy. I had no idea where exactly the voice came from: the street? the garden?the adjacent parking lot? it sounded like a voice coming from an alien world.
After a few minutes, it occured to me that, perhaps, the voice belonged to a woman with dementia or alzheimer who had escaped, unnoticed from the nearby assisted-living facility (which has also a memory care wing), and was looking for her personal carer. I decided to call the police in our area and ask them to urgently deal with the matter.
The police were quick. I looked out of the window and was relieved to see the blue flashing light of their car . After about 5 minutes the nagging voice stopped, and I went back to bed.
The next day I made enquiries. She was found sitting on the garden stone edge, behind a car. It appeared I was only partially right. The woman had indeed dementia, but she wasn't a resident of the assisted living facility. The police kept her for a while at the station until family phoned to report her missing. The incident was brought to the attention of the Social Services.
Well, I was glad that it all ended with no physical harm done to the poor woman.
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