You Stole My Car?! Who does that?? Welcome to Sandy....

Have I ever mentioned that I HATE wasting my time? It seriously is one of my biggest pet peeves.  Well, today I trying to be super efficient by getting my safety and emissions test done so I could go in this Saturday today get my car registered.  Well....did I mention that my car got stolen today?!  Talk about waste of an afternoon!!!

When I went in to get my safety check they told me I failed because my emergency break was broken.  I proceeded to ask them where I should go to get it fixed.  They told me to go across the street to Firestone (by the way.....NEVER go to Firestone). I took their advice, thinking that I was again being SO efficient to get this all done at once.  Oh yes, and did I mention that I had both kids with me at the time.  Okay, so I parked the car right outside of the bay, waiting for it be serviced.  I left the keys in car, which don't you always do when you're going to have your car worked on.  I got both kids out of the car (Thank Goodness!) and went inside to get helped.  There were two men in front of me, who looked like they were about to leave. Within in a few minutes the two men had left and I had moved to the front of the line.  I turned around for a second and looked out the window and saw someone getting into my car.  My first thought was, "WOW they are super fast here," then I soon realized that wait, that man is not going to fix my car....NO, he is DRIVING OFF with my car!!! Seriously, is this really happening to me!  I really felt like I was on CSI of NCIS or something! Well, on second thought, I guess a stolen car would make a really boring TV episode, but it's NOT boring when it's YOUR car they are stealing!

I proceeded to call the police, they showed up and I filled them in on all the details. Well, to make an already too long story short, the police found my car two hours later in American Fork.  However, the story gets better (or worse for some).  They found my car parked in the garage of a family in American Fork.  Apparently, this man had somehow opened their garage door, parked my car in their garage, and then drove off with their Jeep.  Oh yeah and I did I tell you that as he was driving off with the Jeep, he ran into this families' other car that was parked into the drive way!  Seriously, this guy must be on something because why would you open the garage and steal the car in their when there is another car in the driveway that you could steal!

Well, anyway, props to the Sandy and American Fork Police officers for finding our car so quickly.  They stole pretty much everything in our car, including our two car seats and my Phil & Ted stroller :(  but it really could have been so much worse.  I am so grateful that things turned out the way they did and that my family is safe.  It was definitely a learning experience for me and I hope that I will be much more vigilant in the future.