doodledee

Attention punk kids who think it'd be worthwhile to break into my jeep: it's not. Here comes the inventory:

• AM/FM factory stereo
• 3 bags of baby clothes that need to get to the goodwill
• 1 roll of duct tape - used to tape rear window closed
• 1 set of jumper cables
• 4 bungee cords
• beach towel for when I leave windows down and it rains
• less than a dollar in change

Jackpot, I know. The guys at work never say it out loud, but whenever I drive to lunch I can tell that they're jealous. I'm sure it's mostly the bungee cords.

I bring this up because the neighbor girl stopped by the other day to let me know that her brother had been up watching tv late at night and had seen a group of kids - her words - "trying to break into your jeep". Her brother called the cops and the cops came and I think they may have even caught the kids but she wasn't sure. I'll maybe call down to the station tomorrow just to see if they wrote anything down.

My favorite part is the "trying to break into" part. For one, it's always unlocked. For two, the back window is duct taped closed. So I really hope it was more "succeeding" than "trying". You never know with this generation, though. They probably had to stop halfway thru peeling the duct tape off to txt some updates to their myspace pages. Then sit around in a circle and wait for someone to tell them how good of a job they were doing. As a team.

Honestly, a 10-year-old starting-to-rust jeep with duct tape holding the windows closed? That's a target? So weak.

(Full Disclosure: this happens to me every 6 months or so, though it's been a few years since it's happened at the house. Huh.)