Here's how life has been lately...
Wife is called shortly after having our second baby and is told that she no longer works for her company! Health ins on her and the kids is now non-existent! Oh well. The plant life has slowed to a crawl and the shop is on it's heels all at the same time.... Nerves are starting to fry! Last week, I picked up two really good wrecks and WHEEWWWW, things may be salvagable.
Now, to the thieves part...
Thank God I decided to leave the house before 7 am this morning to mow around the shop and be done before it turned into S. LA hot!
When I pulled up at the front door of the shop, I notice the front door is JACKED UP!
I grab my favorite passenger and step in to assess the situation. The alarm that we have is going crazy in "in-house" mode and there's a huge concrete pillar in the middle of the floor. The place is empty of perps...Unfortunately! I called the parish and they send a couple of units in response.
In a nutshell, we got damn lucky because the only things that we could find missing were a few speaker boxes and speakers that, IMO, didn't belong here anyway. I'm gonna guess that the alarm beeping was enough to keep em from robbing us blind! Of all the things that could have happened, that's all that happened. Still, your heart sinks when you pull up to see something like this! All I could think about was the BMW and Gr. Cherokee that belong to customers and nevermind if any of you have ever stepped foot on a Snap-On or Cornwell tool truck...A simple handful of tools can be over a grand in a hurry!
In short, we dodged a bullet, hired a new security company and, will live to work another day. But, as I sit here at the shop typing, my 12 is hanging out with me tonight jam full of 00! My sense of security has been breached and my faith in people is certainly damaged right now. On the bright side, I have a healthy wife and two beautiful children at home so...Is this really all that bad?
