One day in May we hired some landscapers to clean up our yard; mow, plant a tree, trim back some plants we had neglected and install a drip system in our garden. They came with an SUV pulling a trailer full of equipment and parked in front of our house and got to work. My husband was home that day to give them access to the yard and let them know exactly what we wanted. They had been working for hours when the next door neighbor left her house. She walked to the front of her house, saw the SUV and presumably the Mexican men working at our house, and immediately called the police. She then hopped in her car and sped away.
Not one, but two cruisers showed up. They assessed the situation and said to Mike, "We see this was resolved." She had called in a parking violation, stating she was unable to move her vehicle from her driveway. They saw her vehicle was gone and figured the SUV had been relocated. However the SUV never moved because one of the landscapers had taken his personal vehicle to a convenience store down the street to get drinks for the rest of the crew. He inadvertently had the SUV keys in his pocket. Her driveway was not blocked, and she was easily able to get her car out.
My husband, with not much else to do that day, followed up with the police as to why two cruisers were dispatched for a parking violation. Dispatch had no record of the call. It appeared as if she made a personal call to one or more of her officer friends.
What I failed to mention is that she was volunteering as a sheriff's posse member at the time. The pay wasn't great, but oh...the benefits! After that the waving and small talk came to a crashing halt. Her choice, not ours. But we didn't exactly mind.
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