this morning when i went out to my car the gas tank flap was open and the gas cap was on the roof of the car.
this was alarming for a couple of reasons:
* i haven't purchased gas lately.
* the car was locked, and in order to open the flap you have to pull a lever inside the car.
there didn't appear to be any indication that the flap had been pried open. and as far as i could tell, there had been no siphoning... i still had the half-tank of gas that was in there last time i drove the car.
ray tried to convince me to call the police. i could find little justification for that, though... as far as i could tell, my property had not been harmed and nothing had been taken.
so i drove to work wondering what on earth had happened. is it easy to pry open the gas flap? who would have done that, then not covered their tracks? did i somehow disrupt a crime in progress when i walked out to my car this morning? so many questions...
about halfway through my commute it occurred to me that someone could have easily put something in my tank, instead of taking something out. isn't sugar-in-the-tank some kind of evil prank? my car didn't conk out, so i guess everything is ok.
it's a real head-scratcher, though.
Posted by xta at May 23, 2005 01:37 PM | TrackBackThis is the kind of situation that would have me flippin out. And then, days, weeks, or months later it would be solved. And it would be something stuipid, like,'oh mom, I forgot to tell you that I siphoned some gas into dad's car in the middle of the night, cause my friend Tina was stranded at work and didn't have a ride and dad's car had no gas and I didn't want to wake you...'
somthing like that -- logical...you know.
Or -
it could be aliens.
WTF?!
Unrelated: I biked by the DSW SHOES store today, except their "E" is out, so it's DSW "SHO S". Is that like a signal for 20% off? Snerk.
Posted by: Phil at May 24, 2005 01:23 AMMaybe they had a very small container, in which to put their stolen gasoline.........so you didn't even notice what had been taken.
Perhaps they were just looking for enough for a small moped.
Any mysterious moped activity in your area?
Posted by: Gidge at May 24, 2005 01:11 PMI didn't try to convince you to call the police. I just tried to convince you to stop presuming the police wouldn't be able to do anything helpful.
Posted by: ray did not ubinger at May 25, 2005 09:28 AM