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"Ye have been bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men."--I COR. vii. 23.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Alfa Romeo

It showed up last winter outside the door of our storage facility on the old chicken farm. The passenger side window was shattered and the bumper on the same side was scraped. I thought it was stolen and someone had ditched it. Next to our wall the car is hidden from the main street across the field. I didn't want to touch it.
Next time I was out at the facility a month later I reached in and opened the driver's door and started looking around the inside.
















I found a champagne bucket, some thermos containers and some cups and napkins when I folded the backseat down to access the trunk. It looked like stuff you would carry with you to cater a party. Someone has since taken the champagne bucket and thermos containers - just cups left. Also the battery is now missing and the radio has been gone since spring.
Yesterday I combed through the front seat and got the glovebox open. I found a piece of paper with a Spanish literature course description, a tube of broken lipgloss (plum), and a business card for a small business with the name "Laura Oliva" hand-written on it.
A couple of months ago when the storage facility was burglarized, the Spanish cops were out here and we asked them what to do with this car. They ran the plates and said that "nobody has reported it missing" and left it at that.
Now its almost autumn. Who cares?