Someone called this morning from a store on the corner of Auburn and Madison to tell us that purse was found! That's the good news, the rest is bad, and a little creepy.
Apparently the first crooks, who busted out our passenger window and grabbed the purse out of what I thought was my unnoticable hiding place under the center console, used some credit cards at a gas station, then grabbed the credit card and my ID before dumping it on the side of the road. They went on to do some more credit card damage, which isn't too big a deal because of fraud protection.
The good thing is that they didn't realize I had almost $400 in cash in a coupon organizer! The bad thing is that some bum, who has a little "house" behind the store where the purse was found, found it first. He left a trail of all my stuff from the street corner to his house (which is how the owners of the store found it). My temple recommend, diapers, an old tithing envelope, little toys, a pair of socks, etc. When Brian went to pick up the purse the store owners showed him all this, then he found the coupon keeper and the coupons strewn all over the place, but the cash was gone. The bum had even put one of my old ID's that I kept in my wallet up on the wall of his little house. (That's the creepy part.)
Currently the bum is out spending our money and Brian is waiting there to file a report with the police. I doubt there will be anything left of the $ when the police find him... Hopefully he got a good hot meal out of it!
The best thing to come from this morning was that my keys were found!!!! Now I don't have to worry about someone coming to our house in the night with easy access... or replacing the clicker for the Minivan!
