People Suck

This morning we were all out in the yard playing/working. Luis was using his (high-end) leaf blower to spread out the mulched grass from mowing, the boys were playing (Lexi was napping) and I was weeding.

After lunch we were getting ready to put Lexi and Jackson down for their afternoon naps and happened to be in the bonus room. Luis heard a car and when we looked out the window, a red Volkswagon Jetta was backing out of our driveway. This is odd because our driveway is about 175 feet long and has a turnaround near the house, so backing out of the driveway is not a usual occurence.

Luis went out to the garage a little later, which, just so you know, had all 3 garage doors open, toys were still out in the driveway, etc. and realized that his blower had been stolen! The SOB in the red car stole our $350 blower!!!! We filed a police report, but didn't really think anything would come of it.

Later in the day I went across the street to pick up some items from the farm stand and casually mentioned what happened. The owner (who has lived in our town his whole life) said they had a chainsaw and some other tools stolen recently as well and he had a very good suspicion as to who it was. He made a phone call and confirmed that the person he suspected drove the make/color car that we saw.

The bad news is that if that is the person, he is a heroin addict and almost certainly brought the blower to a pawn shop in order to make some money for drugs. Sigh. He must have spotted Luis using the blower and just waited to make his move. Creeps me out thinking that this guy was "casing" our house. And it sucks that I don't feel quite as safe as I used to in my own house - I mean this guy stole our stuff WHILE WE WERE HOME!!!!!! Ballsy. That's all I have to say.

And the boys keep asking why someone would take our stuff. We've tried to explain that a not-nice man came and took it so that he could buy drugs. And that drugs are bad and make you do crazy things which is why you should never take drugs. Never too early to start that conversation, right???