By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr!
April 25th, 2018.
I met her in a Kmart store, which is rare because I have not been in a Kmart store in about 30 years. The last time I was in a Kmart store was in Upstate New York and I did not think much of the Kmart store there either. She started a conversation with me because she saw some of my man bling jewelry and somehow, I really do not remember how, she opened up her mouth and her story was suddenly flowing out of her mouth, like the water that was flowing on both sides of the yacht that she had stolen in the middle of the night.
It was amazing how she told the story to me, like it was an out of body experience then and even now that she was free enough to walk and buy stuff in a Kmart store. She really did not look like a druggie, but maybe she had quit being a druggie a long time ago. Maybe she is a wiser lady now, compared to back then, in her stupid days of taking meth and stealing a yacht. She said she happened to be very high, meaning mentally off balance in making very irrational decisions, compared to making rational decisions when on drugs and especially meth.
I have never tried meth and I do not plan on trying meth at any point in my life. But I truly believe that if I did try meth that there would be a little voice in my mind saying, “Do not steal a yacht, even if the keys are in the ignition. After all, someone is going to notice the yacht is missing and where is there to run to when the only way to run away from the police boats is to swim?”
There are all types of yachts that rich people can buy and the lady did not tell me which type of she had stolen. Maybe her mind was so fired on meth that she was not paying attention to what type of yacht she was stealing at the time. But maybe more important than what type of yacht she was stealing was who actually owned the yacht and who their friends were in the legal world of criminal law, meaning the criminal court system.
It just so happened that the owner of the yacht was the buddy of a criminal court judge. Or in other words, a criminal court judge was a friend of the owner of the yacht that the methed up lady had decided to steal simply because the keys were in the yacht’s ignition. Again, I am thinking to myself, “If I saw the keys in the ignition of a yacht, I would not simple turn on the ignition simply because it was a very easy thing to do at that time.”
Plus, where is there to go after the yacht is missing from the harbor and the police boats and especially the police helicopters are looking for the missing yacht that actually might have a ‘Find me if I am stolen device on the yacht.’ But even more importantly, where is there to go after I am caught and put into jail for a year? Sure, she had friends in jail already, so it was a bit easier to do her time. She did not like doing jail time for stealing a yacht. She told me, “I am never doing that again.” I can hear a millions voices saying to her, ‘Why did you steal it in the first place?’
Maybe it was because she would always have a story to tell a stranger in Kmart.
But then again, maybe those millions of voices are asking, ‘Who leaves the keys in a yacht for someone to steal?’ ‘Who is more stupid, the meth-head lady who steals the yacht or the person who leaves the keys in the yacht’s ignition so the yacht can be stolen in the first place?’
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