Mother in laws advice

I was about to meet Mike my husband off the London train late one Friday night, the station was not in a particularly salubrious area of a nearby town. As I was getting ready my mother in law who was staying with us at the time said “Lock the car doors and take Tedder with you”. Over cautious I thought but decided to heed her advice.

Tedder having once shot off the back seat when we braked hard now took up residence in the back foot well. Just before I left, as instructed, I locked both the passenger and driver’s doors more to please my mother in law than for security.

It was just as well she had suggested it, as I stopped at some traffic lights a man from the pavement grabbed at the passenger door handle, Tedder who had been completely hidden in the back leapt up barking at the window. If it had not been so serious it would have been funny the man’s face changing from aggression to fear in a millisecond. He left go of the door handle and fled, it was quite a temptation to release Tedder and let him go after him. But I thought too much of my dog than to let him tear up my would be assailant.

Looking back on it, in a case like that I would normally have left Tedder at home with my mother in law and I never normally drive with the car doors locked, the consequences don’t bare thinking about.  Now Tedder and my mother in law are long dead and I still don’t lock my car doors but then I live in a wonderful and peaceful area of the country and my husband no longer has to visit London, in fact he is now my guard dog.