So Ken and I went to Walmart and purchased a shiny new gazing ball and stand. After we left the store, we slowly drove into her neighborhood and parked the van a couple houses away so that we could take time to unwrap it and set it up. After that step was completed, Ken drove slowly up to her house. He then quietly tip toed out of the car and into her yard and gently placed the gazing ball next to her front porch. Giggling all the way back to the car, he hopped back in, and we zoomed away.
Finally, after all these years I've finally pulled off a
sneaky act without a hitch...or so I thought.
After we got home, Ken and I sat down to eat lunch, still giggling at
how much fun we had.
While munching a
mouthful of food, I said to Ken...."Are you sure we put the gazing ball in
the right yard?"
"Oh, I'm 99% sure." he said.
"What do you mean, 99% sure? " I replied with
great concern.
"Well, I've never been to her house before, but I heard
it's blue, and that is the only blue house on the corner. " he said as his
smile started to disappear.
To make a long story short, later that day we discovered that
her house was not blue. It was light
tan. It didn't take these two detectives
long to figure out we had placed the gazing ball in the wrong yard. Now....what to do....
Our first thought was...well, we'll just go take the gazing
ball out of the neighbor's yard and place it in our friend's yard. But then we thought...oh no...wouldn't that
be stealing? Then we thought...it "technically"
wouldn't be stealing...it was "technically" ours until our friend "technically"
took possession of it...But then, what if the person in the blue house didn't
see it that way and they "technically" thought it was theirs and
thought we were "technically" stealing it...and how would we ever
explain all these "technicalities" to the police???? Bad bad idea. How...how...how do we get ourselves into these
situations? We were only trying to be
kind. Ken decided the best solution would be to just go to the store and buy
another gazing ball and stand...Oh, and since HE was the one who put it in the
wrong yard in the first place, he was willing to pay for it out of his monthly
fun money allowance...so that even sweetened the deal!
But, a strange set of
circumstances then occurred. The
neighbor in the blue house saw the gazing ball in their yard, thought it was
the stolen one that belonged to our friend, and returned it to her! Oh joy!
The moral of this story....If you're going to do something kind...and
you are going to be sneaky....just don't get me involved!
