WARNING! This may just be the longest post I’ve ever done. If I went back and read it for bad grammar and typos, I could probably make it maybe half as long? Maybe even more?
…. But when I do talk to text, the dialogue comes out as fast as I think. And believe it or not for a senior citizen I think pretty fast. And I talk pretty fast. And usually that results in a post that can be so long I don’t even wanna read it, lol.
…. But the subject in this thread is very important. Because one of the nicest guys anybody could ever meet is missing a very special yo-yo. And being an OG DXL member, I take it kind of personal when anybody in the club is confronting a problem that they shouldn’t have to.
….. so if you have a tension deficit syndrome. Or you just happen to read very slowly. Or you just happen to not wanna read anything longer than the menu at a hamburger joint, then stop right here. Especially if you aren’t a DXL member. Or you weren’t at the meet when Spencer yo-yo disappeared. Or you don’t even know anybody in Southern that throws a yo-yo it might know anything…. Then most likely unless you need a little bit of perspective on life experiences, you be wasting your time to even read this far. You’ve been warned…..
There’s a few interruptions in the flow here.
First of all, if somebody intentionally boosted your canopy, they cannot use Michelle as an intermediate in some sort of exchange program without giving up an address of their own, which obviously could be used to identify who they are unless they had Michelle ship the trade stuff to some postal drop off location?
Secondly, since you go to the club meetings and I haven’t been to one in years, you know every single person that was at the club meeting that is actually in the DXL I’m pretty sure. Not having been there at the time of this mishap only you and the other DXL members Were or are aware of who exactly was there.
If there were mainly just members at the last meeting, it should be pretty easy for Michelle to contact every person that was at the DXL meeting and just give them the facts of the matter.
Let me just make a wild guess and say they were 40 people at the last meeting when your yo-yo vanished. 20 of them were DXL members and 20 of them were who knows who? That obviously could be a serious problem in getting your yo-yo back.
That being said if there were 30 people there and almost every one of them was a DXL member then it boils down to two things. The first thing is is to complete accident and unintentional and it’s possible the DXL member that got your yo-yo has it sitting in their bag possibly underneath another yo-yo and didn’t even pay attention to it yet? I mean they might have it. You’re not even realize that they accidentally walked off with it?
Possibility too, is that somebody deliberately took it counting on anybody and everybody else not playing close attention to who is throwing what? And if it was a DXL member that intentionally boosted your yo-yo and you find out who it is, they should be eliminated for their entire lifetime to ever go to a DXL meeting again. Because without trust in honor, you’re nothing.
DXL members are proud and primarily honest and friendly group. When the club was started so long ago by Brian Cabildo and I was lucky enough to be an original member, every single person in the DXL you could trust implicitly. There were no phonies no thieves no jerks. We were all just a bunch of nice well-meaning folks that hung around and didn’t cause problems for each other or anybody outside of our club.
If someone in the club is indeed responsible for deliberately stealing your yo-yo right in front of other members, their trustworthiness and credibility has gone from 100 to 0 in the same amount of time it takes to make one yo-yo disappear.
Ask Michelle to contact everyone on the member list. Sometimes people see things. And don’t think about what they’re saying because of the time it really means nothing because they’re not aware of what they’re looking at? Everybody’s happy and passing on yo-yo‘s around and just basically having fun. People with sticky fingers take advantage of other people’s non-suspicious, mainly innocent Attitudes. They count on other people not paying attention.
The one shortcoming of that is sometimes, but something is brought up after the fact, some people that saw something and didn’t think anything of it, will pull up exactly what their mind videotaped and remember very clearly who is filling around with your yo-yo and didn’t put it back accidentally or didn’t put it back deliberately.
Think of it this way… Two guys are sitting on a bus bench. The bus bench is outside of a bank. They’re just waiting for the bus. Three guys get out of a car and go into the bank and they rob it. He walk out of the bank jump in the car drive away. Before the bus comes by and picks these skies up the police show up. They run into the bank in one of the employees says well I think the guys that got the best look at the suspects where those two guys sitting on the bus bench outside. Because from inside the bank, we saw the back of their heads as they left, and they took their masks off as they went outside.
The police go outside and confront the two guys on the bench. They said he the bank was just robbed by three guys and they walked right past you on the way out. Did you see what they look like? The two guys on the bench say we didn’t see anything we weren’t really paying attention. We’re just waiting for our bus. The policeman asked the two guys would you be willing to come down to the station and talk to one of our detectives? The two guys say what’s the use we didn’t see anything.
An hour later, they’re done at the police station. They talk to a detective that’s pretty sharp, but figuring out how to ask questions to get potential witnesses to clear the clouds from their brains and remember what they saw even if they didn’t realize it was important at the time
The two guys are shaking their heads, wondering why they’re there? Then all of a sudden one guy says hey you know what, I remember something. He says yeah I saw three guys two guys look like brothers. They are wearing Levi’s new balance, tennis shoes blue hoodies with Nike emblems on the back. One head gloves, the other didn’t. The third guy was a little shorter and kind of chubby. He had a Harley motorcycle T-shirt on And some fancy boots. They look like they were made out of alligator skin. They jumped in what looked like a 64 Chevy lowered almost to the ground with a license plate that said crooks on it. It had loud pipes and one guy called the other guy Louis and Louis called the other guy, Eddie and Louis and Eddie called the other guy Mo. They said they were going to Hawkins hamburgers in Los Angeles to get a hamburger and some fries in a medium Coke with cane sugar.
The second guy said oh yeah, and the guy Eddie when he talked to, he studied like porky pig. And the guy that looked like his brother had a little limp like maybe he broke his right leg sometime ago?
And then the two guys looked at each other and said how in the hell did we remember that?
And the detective told them everything you see in here is videotaped in your head. People are the original video recorders. But what they remember at the drop of a hat is usually nothing because what they see in here is not important at that moment so it’s moved to the back of their head and stored. That is why if I couldn’t get anything on of you I would’ve asked you to come down the hall and speak to a hypnotist that the police department uses to get people to relax and remember exactly everything they’ve seen.
Stories like the one I just shared with you happen all the time. People say they saw nothing. They remember nothing. And then a day or two later or maybe even an hour or two later, they’re just standing, still staring at a wall and something clicks in their head and they remember. They’re not remember they remember details that even makes them surprise themselves and how good their memory is.
And that’s what possibly could happen in this situation. Unless some guy is some kind of magical ghost level thief, somebody saw whoever took your yo-yo. They saw the person with the yo-yo was taken accidentally in advertently, not returned. Or whether the yo-yo was taken deliberately with no intention of returning it. Somebody saw who was messing with your yo-yo. It just wasn’t important at the time because primarily honest people don’t consider the thief factor. Whoever saw somebody pick up your yo-yo did not even have a thought that it was possibly part of a one-way trip for that yo-yo. Everybody in the club was having fun and trusting each other, which is what thieves count on
So right now it’s important that everybody in the club is notified as soon as possible. Everybody has a life outside of the DXL meetings, but at the same time everybody in the club has a little idle time every day to scan their brains and try to pull up that part of their personal video and if one person at least will remember who was in possession of your yo-yo, that’s all you need. Because that one person will be able to direct the location of the yo-yo by identifying the other person.
If you could get everybody on Zoom right now and ask them all directly, every one of them might answer at the same time and say how we didn’t see a thing I don’t remember anything? Then you do a little talking and mention the last time you remember seeing it and where your bag was and who was even in close proximity to it and all of a sudden one of the guys is gonna say oh you know what I saw someone so playing with your yo-yo.
If it’s somebody outside the club, you make every effort to find out if the information is pretty accurate and then you put the sucker on blast and you don’t stop. Because that’s not a cheap yo-yo so that’s not just a little baby petty crime.
On the other hand, if it’s somebody in the actual club because only DXL members attended the meeting, then you put the screws to the clown and you let them know there could be redemption, but the first phase of the red redemption is it they cough up your damn yo-yo ASAP.
If the person is just absent minded, there should be no hesitation or problem getting your yo-yo back to you. If it’s a person that’s primarily been honest most of their life and just saw a moment to do something sneaky to get something they could never afford, then it’s just a judgment call and how you deal with that person‘s future in relation to the meetings. Everybody can screw up. But that being said you can’t have a person in the group that’s a thief. Thieves are like alcoholics they can take turns trying to quit drinking, but they’re always at the edge of getting drunk again and thieves are always just five fingers away from taking your stuff because it’s a compulsion… It’s a habit… It’s a form of excitement… And it’s a pretty good way to get stuff for free if you’re that kind of a jerk.
Anyway, Spence, I’m crossing my fingers for you’re not hardly ever. Tell anybody I’m crossing my fingers… But considering I wasn’t there I don’t know if I can do except offer you some pretty good information based on my decades of having to deal with people that are accidentally stupid or intentionally stupid
I don’t like to use the word hate. I grew up in a family or hate was reserved for people like Adolf Hitler or Stalin or some other person. You could actually hate. But that being said if there’s two things that I hate… One is a liar. Any other is a thief
I also seldom use the word hope or anything that sounds like hope. But in this instance, since that’s all we can do at this moment, hopefully Michelle can get the word out. And hopefully somebody will scan their brains when they’re not playing call of duty four and actually remember who had their fingers on your yo-yo it was no longer in your possession?
Good luck… I got a feeling there’s a good chance you’re gonna get it back. Even if the person deliberately stole your yo-yo… It’s possible they were just compelled at the moment and already have a guilty complex about it. Sometimes people do that. They’ll see a golden opportunity to get away with something and once they have it in their possession. They think about how they feel if something like that was stolen from them.
I honestly don’t think it’s gonna be a long drawn out process. If somebody did it by accident, they’re gonna find out and get it back to you. If they don’t remember that it was yours and they don’t hear anything from Michelle, they’ll probably either contact her or just bring it to the next meeting and ask around And find out pretty quick and belonged to Spence.
If it’s an actual thief that takes advantage of crimes of opportunity, regardless of whether he’s a DXL member or was just visiting the meet that day, they’re not gonna give a crap about what the yo-yo means to you or what the yo-yo means to anybody. People that do that kind of stuff have no conscience whatsoever. They wouldn’t care if they heard your story and you told him that your grandmother gave that to you before she moved onto the next dimension. They won’t care they might not even sell it they might just sit on it or give it to somebody.
Anyway, Spence, I hope you post in the next few days or at least within a week and say a miracle occurred in some absent minded kid said hey I got this is yours blah blah blah? And then once again you’ll be able to throw the oil around your bag and scratch it up some more And take it wherever you go. If I had a ti canopy, I wouldn’t hesitate to just send it to you for nothing and suggest you pay more attention to your yo-yos. Sadly, and only don’t have a canopy. I’ve never even touched one.
Let’s see what happens?
