Rousted By Pizza!!!

The following is actually an old blog written by my wife Heidi before we got together. It is about a funny situation she was in when she was vandwelling as a single woman in Salt Lake City. I thought it was a good time to post it given the last blog topic. Enjoy! ************************************************************ Stealthy as defined by a van dweller: to endeavor not to be noticed. If noticed, you may get rousted. Rousted as defined by a van dweller: to receive a visit (knock) at your van by the police. Most likely resulting in answering questions, having your license run, and told to move on. I am NOT stealthy! I try to be stealthy. I follow all the guidelines. Sadly, I'm not! - I rotate my sleeping spots. - I only go to my sleeping spot after dark when I'm ready to get into bed. - I've fixed my windows so no light can be seen from the outside. - Before I go to the back, I look around to make sure nobody's watching me. - Etc., etc., etc… Last night I had just fallen asleep when I heard a loud knocking on a rear window. I fly out of bed with my heart racing. I plunk down in my driver's seat ready to go through the ol' questioning routine. However, nobody is there! This kind of scares me. Someone *was* knocking just seconds ago! There are no cars behind me, and nobody is on the street. I turn on the engine and start to pull away when something falls off the back of my van. I roll down the window to peer out at the pizza box that has landed on the street. Then I hear a young boy (about eight or nine) yell at me "We bought you a pizza"! He is standing in front of an apartment complex across the street. I didn't know what to say! I wanted the boy to feel uplifted by his good deed, so I yelled back a "Thank you"! I exit the van and retrieve the pizza box. As I'm getting back in, a second boy standing beside him yells "I hope you like your pizza"! I wave and again yell "Thank you very much"! I get in my van, pull up the street, and open the box. Sure enough, someone bought me pizza! I'd have to say that having pizza delivered to your van is NOT stealthy! I have got to be the only van dweller EVER to be rousted by Pizza!