The car alarm beeped every five minutes.
Just three quick, sharp beeps.
Which would’ve been okay…but not at 2:30 in the morning on a spring night so hot that we had to open the windows in the dorm.
After two hours of this, five of us collected soap, toliet paper, and paper towels, and trooped out to the parking lot.
It was raining, but we soaped those windows good, and coivered the entire windsheild and back window with paper towels.
The toliet paper got thrown all over the car.
I stuck my melted bar of soap under the driver’s side door handle.
Nice, sticky surprise.
The next morning, the car was gone, the paper towels strewn in wet lumps on the parking lot.
The car still beeps some nights.
And when we find out who it belongs to…