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Ding Dong

Caitlynne Hines of Halifax, N.S., Canada, says a man tried to come in her apartment’s front door, saying a friend was staying in the apartment upstairs. She turned him away, but he came back minutes later, she says, and tried to “pick the lock.” He failed, and left again. “We didn’t call the police, but we were prepared to if he came back again,” she says. It was quiet all night, but when she came home from work the next day, there was something on her doorstep: a six-pack of beer, and a note. “It kind of clicked with me immediately once I recognized the box and I just said ‘oh my god I think it’s apology beer’.” Sure enough: “I sincerely apologize for waking you up and being so disorderly in the middle of the night,” said the man in the note, who signed it Cliff. “Please accept this six-pack of average tasting beer as a token of my appreciation.” The beer was Alexander Keith’s IPA. (RC/Global News) ...So really, he wasn’t all that sorry.