Mistaken identity

I was happily performing a "show" for my parents, using the top of our Morrison table shelter as a stage, when a knock came on the front door. Mum said "Oh that will be Pat from next door, come to see what we are up to".
She went to the door and, on opening it, she could see nothing in the drakness. She put a hand out and felt someone in a mac and thought it was Pat playing around. "Oh don't be daft, come on in", she said.
To her horror a masculine voice told her there was a light showing through our blackout, and it turned out to be the police! Mum was very embarrassed, the moreso as they didn't laugh at her mistake but took the whole matter very seriously!
I suppose it was understandable really, as we had had an unexploded bomb in our road the week before, but a little light relief does help in such times.

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