oddness and stupidness

I was woken at 1.30am today by Julie kicking and telling me that there was somebody at our front door, ringing the bell. Being just woke up i headed to the door to open it up only to be stopped. We had three choices.

1. answer the door. But who knows who it might be, i mean are axe wielding murderers polite enough to ring the door bell?
2. Call the police and have that embarrassing situation where you go "there is someone ringing my door bell, what should i do?"
3. Hide. I have seen too many bad movies to do anything else.

We have no idea who it was, or what they wanted.

In work tonight we had one of our boys who joined the army (the one who stayed more than a week) on leave. He was boasting about how much he drinks (seemingly spending up to £1000 on booze a month, and i don't think it's because of his expensive taste in wine) and he was asked about pay. He explained that the higher the rank the more pay. One bright spark asked :

Mathematical idiot: "How much does a Sargent earn? I suppose around £50,000."

Army drunk: "About £2000 a month."

Mathematical idiot: "Wow, as much as that!!!"