Sleep Walking

Funny Story: Our 1st damage to the home.

OK so we go to bed. At some point I feel Eric get up to go to the bathroom.

Side bar on our bathroom. It is small. I included a picture to help with the story. The towel bar is across from the toilet. OK mental image in your mind.

So anyway, Eric gets up to go to the bathroom. After a few minutes I hear some loud noises and some banging. Eric comes out of the bathroom and collapses on the bed. I try to ask him what happen. He mumbles, "I don't know. I don't know. I was trapped. They get me. I was trapped." Imagine this being said to you by a mostly asleep person. It made no sense plus I was just awoken too. I go into the bathroom to see what happen. My husband, after going to the bathroom, just turned around and couldn't find the door. All he had to do was side step to the left and he could get out. Instead he panicked and freaked out. Result...He yelled at the wall. Apparently someone was trying to get him. Because he was trapped and need to get out of the bathroom, he logically...(as any of us would do) proceeded to rip the towel bar out of the wall. And when I say ripped...I mean pulled it hard enough that the screws came out as well as a lot of dry wall with it. When I go see it, the towel bar is in 2 parts on the floor with the towels. There is a gigantic whole in the wall. There is no paint just the drywall. In addition, my foot is wet. Eric has not only tore the towel bar off the wall he's missed the toilet when he went to the bathroom. Not only does he destroy things in his sleep he also has really bad aim. I am angered.

At this point I am fully awake and pissed off (both metaphorically and actually). I try to go and talk to him. All I get from him is a very muffled and mumbled, "I was trapped. They were gonna get me." I couldn't get anymore from him. Needless to say it took me a while to calm down and fall back to sleep. ( I am a red head and some times have a temper.) I look at the clock and notice he had only been in bed an hour! I don't know how he could be in such a deep sleep so fast. He such a goof ball.

The next day he made a visit to Ace Hardware and was Mr. Fix-it. It's all better now. I need to paint over the spackle at some point but most of the time you won't see it because of the towels.

Lesson: Eric sleepwalks and does stupid stuff. I will have to buy him a more effective nightlight.

PS...I did clean up the bathroom prior to going back to bed. And in hind sight it was all a very funny situation.