Monday, January 26, 2009

Welcome to Big City, USA



We've been living here several years, and we should be thankful that it didn't happen before.

As a work"perk", Evan gets to drive around this great 4-door truck. Evan tries not to act excited, but when he struts in the door after driving around and makes special trips just to give the kiddos a ride, you know he is excited.

Friday night he took Taneal and Camie to a birthday party at one of those places that has go-carts, etc. They stayed until 9:30pm, not too late.

When Evan put his key into the door handle of his new truck, the key turned to the left and to the right, but would not unlock the door. He tried calling me but I had already fallen asleep and the phone wasn't in my bedroom, so I didn't wake up. After a half hour of trying to get me, he gave up and called Becky (sister-in-law). She came and picked them up and brought them home.

Then, we loaded all five (3 sleeping and out for the night) into my car to see if another set of keys would unlock the truck.

No success.

Then Evan saw where someone had taken a screw driver, or something like that, to the door handle and tried to pry off the handle, thus breaking it. Security said they were after the rims. That's what we get for driving a cool truck.

Evan spent all day Saturday fixing it.

2 comments:

Julia said...

That sucks. Don't you hate that people are like that? Someone did that to Ian's truck on the passenger side over night once when we lived at my parents and now we can't use the key to get in on that side. And they live in a nice neighborhood...you just always have to be watching out for your stuff, I hate that it's like that.

Slim said...

That's so sad! We have no room in our garage for big outdoor toys or tools because Wyck insists on parking both cars in the garage. You, unfortunately, found out why. That is so sad. When I was a kid, we could leave our doors unlocked all the time, even at night, with no fear. Of course that was in the country. Big city life, don't you love it? I haven't had a chance to see those nice rims yet. Maybe Evan would like an excuse to haul mulch for us? :)