Pickets

As you can see, we have a white picket fence around the house. We have lived here since September of 2002, and in the past 4.5 years we have had the fence assaulted three times.

Once, after the Super Bowl (when it was here in Houston) someone coming from the bar down the corner broke one of the pickets. I think they kicked it. I replaced the picket the next day.

Then, the oddest thing happened. Several months after the Super Bowl, someone came and stole ONE picket. Yes, they took one picket out of the fence, and it was gone. I replaced that picket the next day as well. But about 6 weeks later, THE ORIGINAL PICKET WAS RETURNED!!! Yes, we came home one day, and the picket (it was the same one) was lying in the yard.

Then about a week ago, we noticed that another picket was gone. Just gone. No reason why, no evidence of where it had gone. We replaced it with the one that had been mysteriously returned.

People are just so odd.