Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker
One thing I love to do is read stories, jokes, news and recipes on the internet. Sometimes I run into a story that is too good not to share. So here goes:
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of stealing her vehicle.
She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun out of her pocket and proceeded to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of my car or I will show you my shooting expertise.”
The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. This lady meant business and was going to protect her vehicle.
The old lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat. Oh my, she didn’t drink.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. She had pulled a gun on the 4 men and chased them away and had made herself at home in someone else’s car.
She went into the police station and told her story to an officer. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn’t stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where there was four scared men reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.
The moral of the story? If you’re going to have a senior moment… make it memorable.
