A New HoddyTale Adventure....."Knock Knock"

So after Sabrina's Great Sable Smash-Up adventure in April where the car was totaled (but had a great low-mileage engine in it), Mable the Sable donated her heart to revive the dead-in-the-driveway Taurus which had been black-tagged for about 4 years after Amanda blew the motor by never checking the fluids. (ahem.....Tom DOES try to teach them....you can lead a mule to knowledge but you can't make it learn.) We promptly sold the Taurus to a character named Rufus (yes, really) who had just moved here from Alaska, works in the refinery and just needed something he could drive around town. Last night around 9 p.m. Rufus called Tom to see if we still had info on the Taurus, tag number, VIN, anything, because it was stolen and he needed something to give the police. Oh, and he hasn't gotten around to changing the title on the Taurus yet...and he had left it in the glove compartment. So I dug around I the files and found the original sales receipt and gave him the VIN#.

Fast forward to 3:45 a.m. when I wake to hear Eden saying "Daddy.......Daddy........Daddy....." (very softly and politely). I asked her what she needed and she said "There's a policeman on the porch asking for Daddy." I woke Tom up MUCH more efficiently that Eden's feeble attempts (poor kid) and he headed down the stairs. (We would never have known the police were at the door if Eden hadn't been sleeping on the couch to be in the A/C.....too hot to sleep in her room. No phones upstairs, our door shut, A/C on......) By the time I pulled on some pants (which I later discovered were inside-out, good thing I stayed inside) Tom was out on the porch talking to the policeman and Eden was back on the couch with very wide eyes. I curled up with her to wait, asked her if it was scary ("kinda"), etc. She said the phone rang at the same time (the officer's private cell phone).  I guess he'd been tapping on the door for a while before she heard him and it was actually the phone that woke her up.

Turns out they found the Taurus in Blackwell, 30 miles away. The guy who had it was trying to say that HE had bought it from Tom and he DID have the title, so while they still had him in custody they were trying to verify Rufus' story with Tom......who might have to testify.

No wonder I'm wiped out today.