The Italian Job

Yesterday after work, my sis and I went to run some errands – the bank and also bought some tai chow for the family to eat.

When we got home, we heard splashing sounds at the balcony. My sis saw water running down from the balcony to my dad’s car, which was parked by the sidewalk. Both of us were cursing. Nobody uses the balcony anyway. Why wash? Why want to waste water? I know Selangor gives free water every month but this is not a way to utilize it! We only wash it once a year but my aunt insisted on washing it whenever she feels like it.

After taking a bath, I joined my family for dinner. My aunt was still splashing away at the balcony and my dad’s car. My dad asked us what was the noise all about. We told him aunt was helping him to wash his car. In fact.. not washing.. aunt was pouring water on his car from the balcony!

After several rounds of persuasion, asking her to stop and come down to join us for dinner before it gets cold, she came down.

My dad, who had finished eating dinner decided to take the bicycle to the grocery shop.

We were having between 2 spoonfuls of sing chow mai when my dad made a u turn and went to the back of our house and called out to us.

“Where is my car?”

Thinking that he must be joking, my aunt said, “It’s there! I just poured water on it awhile ago!”

“It’s not there anymore!”

The few of us having dinner were alarmed. We frantically ran to the back of the house and some of us went to the front of the house and couldn’t believe our eyes that the car which was there less than 5 minutes ago, soaking wet is gone!

We ran upstairs and all of us were talking at the top of our voices. Our neighbor two houses away who was playing badminton with his sons outside their house compound did not notice anything suspicious. They were as dumbstruck as we were.

Not wasting any more time, my sister and I took our cars to comb the neighborhood for the car.

What puzzled us was – there was no ignition sound. The old white Nissan Sunny always took awhile to start. And it was truly puzzling how one could steal that car! And the engine always made a lot of noise when being ignited.

My dad and sister later went to the police station to lodge a report (which took them two hours, by the way). Apparently, the car now is a “hot” commodity for criminals. They were told by the police that, Nissan Sunny or any old car are stolen because of its sturdy exterior. It won’t be easily damaged if being rammed. Heck. I met with an accident with an old Nissan Sunny a few years ago and the car was as good as before but my poor Kenari koyak habis.

In fact, the police said earlier on, someone else also reported about his stolen Nissan Sunny.

So now, two old Nissan Sunnies were stolen and would probably be used for robbery. To humour myself, I tried to imagine Mark Wharlberg and Matt Damien doing the Italian Job in two old junks.

So friends, if you happen to see an old white Nissan Sunny ’85 car number plate ABD 2477, please call the police.

PS. I know some of you most likely would buy 4D tomorrow!