Last Friday night, I had an experience that, as I told my good wife, represented two more reasons why I need a weapon.
Reason number one: I got onto I-17 northbound at Thomas Rd. at about 10:30. A little more than one mile north, just prior to the Camelback exit, the left side window behind me (back seat window) exploded inward. Glass everywhere. The 'explosion' was pretty dang loud; scared the heck out of me. I seriously thought that I was under attack and that someone had taken a shot at me. I reached for a weapon to return fire, but..... imagine my disappointment at not finding one.
Thankfully, I was able to maintain composure and quickly dialed 911 and pulled off at the Bethany Home exit and parked my now wounded vehicle in a vacant lot and awaited the police. Two of Phoenix's finest soon arrived. Nice guys. They took a look around the vehicle and came to the conclusion that it was more likely a rock that someone had thrown at me that caused the damage, since no bullet or remnants were found in the vehicle. I think I'll just stick with the "someone shot at me" version. It sounds better. In any case, I'm glad it didn't happen one window forward. It would have been a shame to have had my handsome face messed up by the glass.
I made it home without any further incident, although the ride was a bit noisy and windy. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me to put plastic or anything over the gaping shotgun-blast hole in my window. As a result, my car had a visitor in the night. A cat decided to explore the interior and leave its mark. My car doesn't smell very good. Now you know reason number two.
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You are so funny Darin. Why the heck has it taken you so long to start bloggin'? We could have been enjoying THIS for years. You sound like Davey, he wants a gun SOOOOO bad. Say that like a 7 year old girl asking you to take her on a ride on the merry go round when she has the stomach flu. That's how hard it is for me to say NO. He says he shoulda bought one before we got married cause then I would've had to have taken him with it. But now it's my call cause the person who says no always gets their way. He says more children are killed each year by stove accidents than by gun accidents. That's nice. But that means there's still some kids who get killed by guns. He does have some reasonable arugments about how he doesn't want the neighbor's kids to show our kids their first gun and have it be all cool and unknown. Teach them the safe handling in your home and all that. Maybe I should do a blog post about it? That sounds nice and controversial. Anyway, love the posts Darin. Tell Carey to write something too, please.
Getting a cat at all is your biggest mistake!! =) Thanks for joining the blog world...this could be fun to read from you from time to time!
It's called "essence of feline"....get used to it.
-Brigham
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