The tapping would stop as soon as they opened the door. They'd tell him to go back to sleep. The voice would laugh, and the tapping would start again. He talked to his daddy, finally. Daddy was reading the paper.
Daddy always read the paper.
There's a man outside my window at night, and he wants me to open the window. He keeps knockin'. Yeah, that is pretty scary. Daddy was real smart, because he could read the paper and think at the same time. You have to learn to play nice with your friends.