ROTFLOL Sounds like Murphy's Law was working overtime.
Were you too wound up to fall asleep after that? That's how those bedtime surprises work out for me.
In retrospect, what was really hilarious about it was my wife’s reaction to it. She had no idea what I was doing, and finally after all that time had piped up to ask me what the heck I was doing with all the banging, huffing and indiscriminate flashlight beams going in every direction… when suddenly I started frantically ripping my pants off… being married to somebody for any length of time always has the capability of new discovery, and I think for a few seconds my wife really set up and wondered what she got herself into… :-)