That was what my parents used to say about the locals where we lived in Saudi Arabia, on the shore of the Persian Gulf: “If it’s not red-hot or nailed down, they’ll steal it.”
Uh huh.
Well, now you can say that about the Yankee set.
Honest to gawd. ANYTHING that you carelessly set down out of your sight or out of your house is GONNA get stolen.
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This afternoon a UPS guy showed up with a package.
My hip still being somewhat spavined, I hobbled out to the curb on my hiking stick. It looked kinda like this… Or this…
Got back inside the house. Went to pick up the stick, to put it away…and… Yeah. Gone. Nowhere to be found.
Couple of hours later: I still haven’t found it.
So I must have dropped it by the guy’s truck and he took it, or else I dropped it on the ground out there and some damn passer-by grabbed it. WhatEVER: it’s gone.
Replacing it via Amazon will cost about $30 to $50, and nothing there looks as nice as the one I had.
The Sprouts on the far side of Main Drag West carries them — or it did, last I noticed. But my gawd! As we scribble, the temp in the shade of the back porch is 103…and that’s at 6:30 in the evening!
If Sprouts is selling the things for less than Amazon does, it might be worth hiking to the store through the heat. Unfortunately, their website says nothing about canes or walking sticks or anything like that. And I sure as Hell don’t wanna plow all the way over there through the heat, only to find they no longer carry them.
So…. Helle’s belles. Looks like the path of least resistance is gonna be to pay through the schnozzola to buy a new one from Amazon.
Dayum!