Katie's Wacky Thursday

Katie had her ups and downs yesterday. Let's start with the "ups."

On Wednesday, she sold her Pontiac Grand Prix for $2000, which isn't so bad considering in my opinion, it needs a new radiator. So yesterday, she stopped down in Madison to a local car dealership and bought a '99 black Dodge Intrepid. It is a very nice looking car and it runs great with 85,000 miles on it. She picked it up for $5,200.

Now for the "downs." Katie works at the local Dairy Queen, passing her time until I can get out of school so she can do her thing at cosmetology school in Minnesota. She deals with a lot of wackos everyday, and I usually hear about it, until a couple of days ago when a really weird guy showed up in the drive thru.

This guy shows up at the drive thru window with a porn mag in the passenger seat, opened up to a centerfold. This is no Playboy magazine, but one of the more "hard core" magazines where a person can usually see a woman's kidneys through an opening in her body (kidding). This has happened two days in a row to Katie and rightfully so, she became a little worried. This guy has been telling Katie stories about driving to Salem (to a strip club) and trying to kick guys out of town so he has a shot at some of the ladies who live there. This guy is also employed within the city limits of Madison, and he's been going around telling guys there had he likes "younger women," and actually told our landlord's son who works there about how some of the girls who work at Dairy Queen are "hot." Katie told our landlord's wife about it and wouldn't you know -- the stories matched. Katie's all freaking out, so she is now locking the doors to our house and since I will be gone this weekend in Spencer, IA, she will be staying with her parents.

The Madison Police Department has been notified about this little pervert, and they're on the lookout for him. Katie really didn't want it to turn into this because she is afraid it'll get back to her that she's saying stuff about the whole situation. I told her that she shouldn't worry too much about it, but on the other hand it would be a good idea to keep the doors locked and be on the lookout for the guy at all costs.

I'm sure this little situation will blow over, but for right now, we're taking it a little seriously right now.