The Night Runs..NEW !

I was reminded by and old friend about the Night runs the other day. The friend was with me and others when we did what was called night runs. These were called this not just because it was done at night, our regular account running ran us into the nights. When we were told that we had night runs for that night it meant being out running accounts into the AM hours. She reminded me of one time we had 5 trucks all following each other, and what we would do is all the trucks would pull up to the house and 2 guys from each truck would get out and we would all hit the house. It was kind of cool, we would each take a door and some windows and start banging and at 2 in the AM all the lights would come on and these people would come to the doors half asleep and pissed to the gills...this was some funny shit! The first time I was told I would be coming on a night run, I will tell you I was a little afraid and the repo guys that I was with didn't help much all of them telling me of fights, dogs and cops who all had played a role in past Night runs. I had been running accounts all day and it was about 7pm when I was told to come in and unload my truck. I was about 8pm when we started out I was put in a truck with a guy we called Fat Don he was a big one, he had to be 300 pounds and waddled when he walked. It was like the penguin on batman. The guy was cool but he kept telling how many times he had been on these night runs and things had gone bad. The night was going good, we had some trouble with a few people but when you go in like goofy storm troopers this has a way of disarming people. It was around 2am when we ran into some trouble. the neighborhood we went in was known to be rough with a mix of different types of assholes like wanna be gangs and rednecks so you always have a melting pot of trouble. This was a very late customer and he was known to get pissed off very easy. We hit the door with our five trucks and ten guys then we started beating all around the house, all the lights came on and I heard people yelling within the house. I was at the side window where I'd been banging when I heard yelling at the front door so I went around and on the porch was my friend with the customer and three of the guys that came with us. I was standing with the fat guy and the fight on the porch was raging on, so he and I were wondering around the trucks waiting to get out the hand trucks for a repo. It was about 5 min into the yelling that we saw the lights go out and heard the door slam, so we went up to the door as we got there the guys and my friend started banging on the doors and windows again it was funny. My friend said hey yall go get the hand trucks we are getting this shit! The lady was pissed and I knew with her this was going to get fun. We had got to the trucks and I heard them yelling at the door, she told him we will not leave until we pick up the merchandise. The customer told her I will beat your A@@ if you don't get away from my door! The guys she had behind her were each 6ft or better and one of them had to be 250 pds of muscles so I knew the guy wasn't going to touch her. The fat guy and I started back again towards the trucks and he said don't be afraid. I said I'm good as a matter of fact I think this is some cool shit, about that time we heard gun shots, then I heard the fat guy yell holly shit and felt him grab my arm and pull me under the 12ft bed truck we were in! I had never seen a guy this fat move so fast! I was yelling dude let me go he said stay down. I was under the truck for about 4 mins when my friend ,who was a woman stuck her head under the truck and said "What the hell are you two doing?" I felt like a idiot and the fat guy who shot under the truck in 2sec flat, well it took 3 of us to get him from under the damn thing. I got out and all of them were laughing so hard I thought a few of them might piss there pants. The customer hadn't shot a gun it was from somewhere in the neighberhood.They had heard the fat guy yell and thought we had been shot! I went on about 50 night runs in my day and had some rough times but that was always the funniest shit that ever happened.