A rich man, indeed

Mark was outside washing and waxing our little red car one day while I was in the tiny kitchen.  He kept coming in and out of the apartment and getting different tools and paper towels and busying himself with some project he drummed up out in the yard.  He had bought some white decal strips for the car and planned to spruce it up a little.  Remember, this is the man that drove a neon green Dodge Challenger with metallic 4” wide stripes down the sides and shag carpeting on the dashboard.  A plain, small, red Chevy needed something to liven it up.  He was measuring and stretching and sticking the decals on the side of the vehicle and with perfect precision he placed the stripes along the side.  He asked me to come out and look at the first installment as he carefully lined up the back of the car’s decal with the door panel.  It was honestly quite impressive.  So, happy that he actually knew what he was doing, I went back inside and proceeded to vacuum and dust our three pieces of furniture.  When I shut the vacuum off, I heard a whirring sound coming from outside.  It sounded like Mark was also vacuuming but that couldn’t be possible because we only had one (A hoover canister that I was quite in love with!)  I walked over to the window and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.  There he was, Mark Searle, bent over the hood of the car with a drill and boring a ½” hole in the hood of the car with the drill!!!!!!!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? I shouted and ran at the same time to try to stop the carnage.  It was too late.  The popping sound of the drill going through the hood was just completed.  He grinned from one ear to another, pulled something out from his pocket, and popped it into the hole he created.  It was a Cadillac hood ornament that he bought from work.  Yup, he put a hole in the car and a hood ornament on the front of it.  Mark Searle always had rich man’s taste on a poor man’s budget!  That car ran until it had over 120,000 miles on it and then the engine blew up.  It thought it was royalty from that day on.  I thought Mark was a bit nuts!