A variation on the "And someone stole the rolled up rug" story?  But fun
none the less.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Poole <jfpoolio@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am at dinner with my van parked right outside the restaurants front
> window.  An older guy noticed my van and briefly shared an interesting
> story
> with me.  You guys probably all know how the conversation went, "your van
> reminds me......."
>
> So the story went like this,,  When he was living in England many years ago
> a friend of his took his family, grandmother and all on a road trip to
> Spain.  When in Spain the grandmother, sadly, passed away.  Due to the
> difficulty of having the body returned to England etc. the family loaded
> the
> grandmother into the top (must have been a high roof?) and left her there
> for the night while they stayed in a hotel and figured things out.  The
> next
> morning they awoke to find that the camper was gone, apparently stolen.
> Later and after much searching the van was found at the bottom of a deep
> ravine that it had been driven into.  They guessed that the thieves, well
> into their joyride, discovered that they had gotten a lot more than they
> expected and then disposed of the vehicle as thoroughly as possible..
>
> That was probably the most unique "your van reminds me of" story that I
> have
> heard yet..
>
> Happy Friday,
>
> Jonathan Poole
>