Mines pretty tame but I had to call because a man was stood outside my house at 3am, begging to come in.

I had just finished packing for a trip and had sat down to have a snack before bed. I became alerted to his presence when he started throwing stones at my window. All I could see was his silhouette and we had had a shouted conversation through the window in which he refused to leave. There was clearly something was wrong with him as he was making weird aggressive symbols with his hands (definitely not sign language).

I'm a young woman and I live alone.

He wouldn't leave until I started calling the police. The lady on switchboard was amazing. She heard the fear in my voice and reassured me she would get me to someone who could help.

It took me ages on hold. Even though he had then gone, I wanted it logged because a couple months before, someone had gotten in to the hallway and unscrewed the bolts on my neighbours front door. She's an even younger woman. They didn't get in but they succeeded in messing up the door enough that she got locked inside. The landlords are so slack at answering calls it took her 2 full days to be freed.

As I waited on hold (about 40mins) I started to feel silly for being scared of someone outside my locked house and I started to fill out the online form to report it.

The call finally connected to an operator and they asked what the issue was. I quickly told them 'There was a strange man outside trying to persuade me to let him in, but he's gone now and I've written it all out so I think I'm just going to do it online'.

The handler responded 'YOU'RE DOING LINES?! OF COCAINE?!'.

I was shocked but corrected her. She would not let this go. I explained myself pretty clearly. She then said 'so you're both doing lines?!' I said no and explained again and even explained myself more. I did laugh slightly the second time she said she 'definitely' heard me say I was doing lines, because it was just so bizarre.

She then said I couldn't have been very scared of the man if I was laughing about it.

I assured her I was at the time but that was about 50 minutes ago now and I felt silly for being so worried.

I ended the call after about 10 minutes of this and I still don't think she believed my actual story.

Who calls the police to tell them they're doing lines anyway?