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Thieves abound

April 2, 2012 Monday Day 2 ~ 30-Day Blogging Challenge prompt is "Have you ever had something stolen from you? What was it? How did this make you feel? Did you get it back? Or did you hatch a plan to get it back? Do you think it would have worked?"

I can remember having only two items stolen; there could have me more, but I attributed them to misplaced items or lost. The first I remember was $65.00; at least I think that was the amount of money. This theft occurred while I lived with my grandparents in Blackwell, Oklahoma. I had moved from Oklahoma City to Blackwell to help care for my Grandparents.

Anyway, a neighbor family came to the house one weekend to eat and have some fun. I received my weekly pay earlier that day and left it on the kitchen table. While the family was visiting, I remember I left the cash on the kitchen table and went to put it away but the money was gone. I went back outside and said the money was missing.

The mother (they had two kids in grade school.) said “Maybe you put it somewhere else or misplaced it.” I said, “No, it was on the kitchen table.” Someone in that family returned the money next day, slipped between the screen door and the door that led to the kitchen. If one of my siblings or me had taken money, while at a neighbors house, my mother or grandparents would have made us take the money back and apologized.

After my grandparents died, I moved from Blackwell to Las Vegas. We, Mom and I, lived in an apartment building with parking in the back. I went out to go to work one morning and my car was gone, since I had my keys in my hand I knew for sure no one I knew took it. I called the police, who found the car four or five blocks away parked behind another apartment building. The kid who stole the car had been sniffing glue, I felt lucky to get the car back in one piece.

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