If you missed the action, let me give you the full story. Jamie bought me a TomTom navigational device for my birthday a couple of years ago.
Because evidently he thinks I am directionally challenged.
And he would be correct.
We only used it to gain our bearings on road trips and kept it in the middle console of my Pilot. Prior to our trip to Boston in October, we went to grab it…and it was gone. We searched everywhere but found nothing. We didn’t really know when it went missing because it had been several months since we had last used it. I had a sneaking suspicion I had brought it in the house and forgotten where I stashed it.
My suspicion was wrong.
Last week, Jamie was home alone when a man came to the door. Jamie hesitated to open it, thinking it was a solicitor of some kind but did it anyway.
“Did you have a TomTom stolen?” the man asked.
Jamie asked affirmatively.
The man then went on to explain that he is an electrician who was working on some wiring problems at a seedy hotel a couple of miles from our house. And in the ceiling of one of the rooms, he discovered that someone had stashed our TomTom, along with an iPod FM module.
So, yes. The few people who guessed the seedy hotel are the winners! Our neighborhood is the closest development to this hotel so evidently these creeps had gone on a joy ride one night. The electrician was able to track us down because we had programmed our home address into the TomTom.
And for those of you who guessed “a” that I found it hidden underneath Cheese Nips in the middle console, SHAME ON YOU for doubting my intelligence.
Besides, I don’t even like Cheese Nips.
But in your defence, I am blonde….
So, let’s hear it: what have you had stolen? Was it ever recovered?
I'm a Canadian-born mom of two, former Denver Post columnist, family travel writer, editor of MileHighMamas.com and 9News contributor. Expert on all things Utah, Denver, family and travel. Lover of laughter and life. Happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. 