Life is filled with the unexpected -- sometimes good and sometimes not so. Seldom is life idyllic for any of us, although we may love for and dream of such. Yesterday, was such a day for me. First, providing for and caring for a totally invalid, stroke-victim 93 year old Mother-in-law is not easy. Now into the fourth year of this journey, I see the toll all about me. But, it is a special kind of low-life that steals a handicap equipped van with electric ramp. Deborah found such a vehicle for sale on eBay three plus years ago and we purchased it for transporting Mildred. Yesterday, it was stolen, from the street where we live! I went into meltdown and Deborah was comatose. There are some low-life people in this world. Yesterday was a long and emotionally exhausting day dealing with law enforcement, insurance, and credit bureau refs run identity matters. This morning at 4:46, I received a call from APD that the van had been recovered. I dont yet know the condition. Will need to go to APD Recovery Unit, then to the Impound Yard. Please pray for us. So, the saga continues. Deborah used our car and went on the work while I worked through the processes, including getting a new battery for the pick-up (a 1995 red Ford F-150. Loved by everyone in Alabama ... And I know my owning it makes my Uncle Ray Benson and high school friend Fred Radloff proud of me!). So, while Goodyear replaced the battery, musing over the stolen van and thinking through next steps I talked myself into walking down the street to get my haircut. Aggie Carter Richards, this was a moment in time when I needed you! The store manager stylist was her usual chipper, bouncy self. As she called me to her chair, the cordless store phone rang. She yelled, I got it! It was the franchise owner. They chatted about how excited they were about the new hire and how good business was. (She had checked the clipper guard numbers for my haircut, as she called me to her chair). Suddenly, I exclaimed, Whoaa, Jack! In all the confusion, she had just run the side guard number for the sides, from the back to the front of my head! I say there stunned. What to do? Well, as I gazed into the mirror I realized that my eyebrows were longer than the hair on a third of my head. For a second I pondered getting a Mohawk. In anguish, the stylist asked what I wanted her to do? I said, trying to be calm and nice, Well, I guess you cant put any back, can you? We both chuckled. The decision was made. I would sport a new buzz look for a few weeks (actually probably a couple of months!). I look like a Marine recruit at boot camp. My haircut makes Jethro Gibbs of NCIS fame look like a 60s hippie! Oh well, the day was continuing as it had started! As she looked at me, the stylist said, Your eyebrows .... Before she finished her sentence I responded, Yeah, they are longer than the hair on my head. She said she would trim them. As she did, her clippers slipped a bit and slightly scratched my eye-lid. A little blood ensued. It was time to hike back to Goodyear and pick-up the pick-up. A little Witch Hazel (I am not speaking of the stylist. LOL) my eye-lid was better, sore, but better. I handled three critical work matters (love outsourcing and modern communication tools) and made it back home. As the evening wore on, I was so exhausted didnt have the energy to run/walk a 5K. So I settled for a 1.3 mile walk. Got up throughout the night checking to make sure the Camry was still in the driveway. At 1:00 am this morning, I cleared it if identifying information and valuables in the trunk. So, today, I am off to APD to secure a release to take to the Impound Yard to pick-up hopefully the van. Not sure what I will find as to its condition. Am praying. But, serendipitously, there was just a knock at the door. It was the mail carrier delivering a box. Oh yeah, it is my Pure Detroit gray hoodie with DETROIT emblazoned across the chest. Im going to wear it to the impound yard. Those guys need to know, dont mess with me, Ive got some DETROIT in my psyche! Maybe my DETROIT high school female friends still in Michigan -- Brenda Boyd, Sue Burns Crill, Marilyn Friebel, Marilyn Wedenoja, and Rita Blevins Eckhout -- will say, Oh yeah, go get em, you Detroit Tiger!
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:47:42 +0000
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