Monday, October 11, 2004
you really know it's fall on the south side when...
well there is a lot of really strange stuff going on here lately. mike has had some unfortunate luck with car vandalization.
a couple of weeks ago, we went to target, when we were going inside he noticed that someone had *stolen* the sticker off the license plate of his car, like the sticker that says what year the license plate expires. I thought those were supposed to be theft-proof. i'm totally confused by that. it was just gone.
a few days later he goes out to get in his car and has a flat tire. when he takes it to the shop, they show him the giant gash in the side of the tire. although there are myriad possible reasons for this, the most likely is that his tire got slashed.
now, i'm not sure what exactly motivates people to slash someone's tire, but it seems to me that if i were the tire-slashing type (and i'm not, by the way), i would slash the tires on the mercedes benzes and the BMWs and the lexuses (lexi?) on our block, not the 1987 toyota corolla. but that's just me. the next day, we saw another old corolla with a tire slashed. like some sort of random serial tire-slasher is terrorizing our neighborhood. it's messed up...
but apparently for the last few days no one has wanted to mess with his car, so that's great. i keep expecting to go out and find my car not there or to find the window bashed in again or something. messed up things have been happening.
there are some other random criminal activities going on in our neighborhood, i'm not going to go into details but just to let you all know, i'm being extra extra careful. i spend most of my time locked up in my office anyways so im pretty safe overall. :)
i'm not going to let the terrorists run my life though. i'm going to get out to the mall and spend spend spend. that's my post-9/11 method of dealingwith things. seriously, i'm not joking.
the other day mike and i bought some new pots and pans. oh maybe i already told this story, never mind. anyways i am ms. spendy pants 2004 these days. i swear.
but the spending has to end because i have to pay bills. so yeah.
well anyways lata.
well there is a lot of really strange stuff going on here lately. mike has had some unfortunate luck with car vandalization.
a couple of weeks ago, we went to target, when we were going inside he noticed that someone had *stolen* the sticker off the license plate of his car, like the sticker that says what year the license plate expires. I thought those were supposed to be theft-proof. i'm totally confused by that. it was just gone.
a few days later he goes out to get in his car and has a flat tire. when he takes it to the shop, they show him the giant gash in the side of the tire. although there are myriad possible reasons for this, the most likely is that his tire got slashed.
now, i'm not sure what exactly motivates people to slash someone's tire, but it seems to me that if i were the tire-slashing type (and i'm not, by the way), i would slash the tires on the mercedes benzes and the BMWs and the lexuses (lexi?) on our block, not the 1987 toyota corolla. but that's just me. the next day, we saw another old corolla with a tire slashed. like some sort of random serial tire-slasher is terrorizing our neighborhood. it's messed up...
but apparently for the last few days no one has wanted to mess with his car, so that's great. i keep expecting to go out and find my car not there or to find the window bashed in again or something. messed up things have been happening.
there are some other random criminal activities going on in our neighborhood, i'm not going to go into details but just to let you all know, i'm being extra extra careful. i spend most of my time locked up in my office anyways so im pretty safe overall. :)
i'm not going to let the terrorists run my life though. i'm going to get out to the mall and spend spend spend. that's my post-9/11 method of dealingwith things. seriously, i'm not joking.
the other day mike and i bought some new pots and pans. oh maybe i already told this story, never mind. anyways i am ms. spendy pants 2004 these days. i swear.
but the spending has to end because i have to pay bills. so yeah.
well anyways lata.
