Long On Story, Short On Facts

As Hick was sweaving out of the casino parking lot on Wednesday, his phone rang. "Hello? Hello? Hellooo-ooo?" Then he started to fiddle with his phone.

"Stop! If you're going to try and figure this out, go right back to the parking lot and PARK!"

Hick did not. He swove on through the side streets, back out to the main business route, heading for the two-lane divided highway. That's when he decided which buddy had called him, and returned the call. It was bad enough with his old phone, but now with the new phone, Hick is even less attentive to his sweaving.

Anyhoo...I only heard the one-sided story until he finally hung up. Then I got the scoop.

"My buddy says that the cops arrested drug dealers up at the Units last night. Said they searched their unit, and towed the car. He says they were keeping their drugs up there, and selling out of their unit. I'll have to go up there tomorrow, and see what happened."

"How would the police know they were selling up there? How can the cops get in? What were they doing, making meth in their storage unit? And how does your buddy know about it? Was he there?"

"I don't know, Val. This buddy THINKS he knows everything, but a lot of times, he only gets part of the story."

"I guess the police might have been looking around, because of that camper getting stolen a while back."

"Maybe. I'll find out."

I find it particularly rich that Hick says HIS BUDDY only gets part of the story sometimes! Anyhoo... here's what Hick found out from the owner of the storage unit complex.

"A guy and his wife or girlfriend were fighting. They have a storage unit, and were getting things out or putting things in. The police drove by, because they patrol up there a lot, after the camper was stole. They heard that gal screaming, so they went inside the fence. The owner gave them the code to get in the gate, to patrol, a while back.

When the police went in, the gal jumped in her truck and took off. They got her stopped on the parking lot, after she left the gate. She started mouthing them and fighting, and they arrested her and towed her truck.

The cops went back in, looking for the guy. Just to talk to him, in case there was domestic violence. He must have run off, because they couldn't find him. They towed his truck, too. The storage unit door was wide open, but they couldn't go inside because they didn't have a warrant. They closed it, and the owner put a lock on it the next morning."

"Surely they know who he is. Because of the truck registration. And renting the unit."

"You'd think. He hadn't really done anything but run off. I don't know if they're getting a search warrant or not. The owner didn't say anything about any drugs. Just that the gal got arrested, and both trucks got towed."

"Huh. She might have done that on purpose so he could get away. But they WERE fighting. So maybe not."

"Yeah. I'll have to watch and see what else happens."

So there you have it. Almost some excitement, but not really.