Preposterousness

What is the world coming to?

Aunt Ruth drove her Meals-on-Wheels route on Tuesday, and afterwards, she came home to eat.  She drove into her garage, took her purse and went inside to eat.  She needed to go to the church to do some work, so she wasn't inside very long.  Grabbing her purse and keys, she went to the garage and discovered the door had been closed . . . and the garage was empty.  No car.

Turns out, the young man who lives across the street closed her garage door because he thought she had accidentally left it open since her car was not inside.  It didn't take them long to figure out that the young man's backpack had been stolen out of his father's car, and then the thief hot wired Aunt Ruth's car.  Within an hour, someone had racked up charges at five stores on Coors Rd. - a long way from Aunt Ruth's house.

Luckily, her insurance agent is my brother, so Bart picked her up, took her to the church, arranged for a rental car, and Jerri took her to pick it up.

All-in-all, it worked out about the best it could have.  The thief did not come into Aunt Ruth's house, which he easily could have done.  She was preparing to get rid of the car because it had been giving her trouble.  And they got a picture of the person using the credit card.  We hope they catch the creep . . . but in the meantime, we are glad Aunt Ruth was unhurt!