Subtitle: I am so dumb.

I didn’t blast outta here to get grocks at 8:00 AM, deciding to have a wee spot of coffee first. When I did get into Cygnus X-1, the first thing I noticed was that there were two bottles of water on the driver’s seat. The glove box was open and there were papers and things on the passenger seat. And more water bottles on the floor in front of the passenger seat. Probably the most annoying was I couldn’t find my car hairbrush. I guess the water bottles distracted me. I cannot abide more than one or two water bottles in my car. And these are OLD water bottles that have been refilled umpteen bazillion times so who knows how many people’s (peoples’?) germs are on them. Ugh.

Because I was distracted by the water bottles, it took me until I got to the Plum Market (a few blocks away) and was inside talking to mouse to come to the realization that somebody had come into the driveway in the middle of the night, opened the UNLOCKED (yeah, I know) car, and rifled its contents. So, still processing that, I sent the GG a “Did you ransack my car?” text.

No, OF COURSE he hadn’t ransacked Cygnus. In fact, it turned out that Moooon Yooonit had also been ransacked. One small item was taken and replaced by a pack of cigarettes with TWO cigarettes left.

The GG perused webcam photos and someone was in our driveway at, hmmm, was it 1:10 AM? We were sleeping in the Lyme Lounge and each of us have a vague memory of hearing something at some time during the night. Fortunately I didn’t go outside to drivewayP until 3:15 or so, so at least I wasn’t in caught in that act.

I am annoyed but not freaked out. Why? As long as we’ve had Next Door Neighbor (which I love to hate), almost EVERY DAY there are posts from people whose UNLOCKED cars were ransacked overnight. The perpetrators *almost* never take anything, just strew things around and make a mess. I dunno what they would do if they found a wad of cash (which I usually don’t have and wouldn’t leave in a car if I did) but they did not take the coins outta the rubber glove.

Waaay before Next Door Neighbor (40 years ago), we had a rash of these kinds of incidents in our neighborhood. Our then thief took our Tickly Toddle cassette tape out of Daddy’s Little Blue Car*. I wonder what that might’ve been worth to them.

I ALWAYS lock the cars before going to bed. Except last night I apparently didn’t. (LOCK YOUR CAR DOORS!)¹⁰⁰

The pic is one the GG took of WWII planes flying over down by the Big House, where Umich beat Wisconsin today. I didn’t see this flyover. If it had been modern fighter jets, I’d have heard them.

*Daddy’s Little Blue Car was one of a trio of Ford Fiestas. The other members of the trio were Mama’s Little Gold Car and The Orange Car (an unknown neighbor down the street).

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