The Worst Idea Ever

By Jim Hagarty
2015

I have done the occasional stupid thing in my life. Dating two sisters in university and somehow thinking they wouldn’t compare notes and discover I took Anne out on Friday night and Jane on Saturday comes to mind. To make matters worse, they were both in some of my classes. That was a long semester after the inevitable discovery happened.

To this day, I take the long way around their hometown Thessalon when I am up in northern Canada, just to be safe.

But I will forever take comfort in knowing that so far, I have nothing to match the goofy decision a Brtish Columbia man made when he stole an unmarked police cruiser. Dumb, dumb, dumb. But do you know what was even dumber? There were two cops in the police car he stole.

So I will continue to stumble along, screw up now and then, but I will always check from now on, when stealing my next cruiser, that I ascertain the identities of the people seated inside before I drive away. If they happen to be sisters, I will hit the eject button.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.