You know its time to move when the police know you by name. Not because your a trouble maker or you have neighbors that call them for every little thing…, but because there is a group of 14-15 year old kids that walk around vandalizing cars.
I had the neighbor lady knock on my door tonight and ask I walked out I see a cop car across the street. Seeing it was the same lady that visited me the last time the police were here I knew what had happened. I instantly thought it was my car again and went to check it out and she started to tell me that it was only the guy across from me and another down the street. This time it was spray paint. The couple across the street have a white mustang, and they sprayed two long black stripes down the side of the car. I probably lucked out cause my car is black.
The cop that showed up was the exact same cop that I called to my house less than a week ago. He seemed rather annoyed but not as much as the owner of the car. Luckily he noticed it soon enough, cause he was able to wash off most of the paint. The thing that gets me is this all happened around 9pm. It was barely getting dark, and these kids are walking around painting cars.
When I was a kid I never walked around and spray painted anyones car, not enough imagination. But when I did go around and do stuff that I might get in trouble for I didn’t do it on a busy street when it was still early in the evening. I am an old country boy, from a small town with one stop light. Everyone in my high school lived on a farm, was working on a farm, or had worked at some point in their life on a farm. So maybe I just can’t relate to these kids, but where is the fun in painting lines on a car? The only adrenalin rush is from getting caught, which at that age you can just about get away with murder, so there is no real danger in getting caught.
I guess I should be relieved that it wasn’t my car. But I have moved the paintball gun to a new location by the front door. I should probably look into getting some pepper spray too. If any kid touches my car I will become homicidal, until I find them. Its my first brand new car, drove it off the lot with 40 miles on it. I want it to stay looking new.
