DH and I went out and did some shopping, it was boring shopping, no stuff for DIsney so I would have rathered stay home, but I gotta feed the kids and If I left grocery shopping up to Kent we would all be eating spam for the next 2 weeks.
We did however go to Home Depot and I was able to score some LGMH's. It took me back to the day of Reese's and mine's Limey Hiest. That was a fun day and I post it every time, I like to share ya know. THis Limey hiest was for our Mom/Daughter trip we took in Dec 2007.
[SIZE="2"[/size]Let's talk about the Alien Green Mickey Head Paint Chips, or the or LGMH's
I don't remember seeing people carrying these on their bodies or posted on their doors during my trip in 06' but then again, I was a beginner and clueless of the whole Dis'er thing so I was not on the look out for any either.
Now I am thinking, (which isn't always a good idea) that I would like to partake of the whole LGMH's thing. How cool would it be to spot a fellow Dis'er, or cooler yet, be spotted by a fellow Dis'er, I would welcome the paprazzi It's in my mind that I need to visit my local Home Depot, or HD. (I should get paid for the free publicity I am about to give them)
I had no plan, no set date for the hiest. Just one day Kent had gone with me to one of Reese's physical therapy appts. When we left I realized we were right down the street from the HD. I tell Kent I need to stop and grab something from there. He didn't ask too many questions, he knows I like HD and Lowe's and go there looking for cool ways to improve my craft room. He obliges me and we pull into the parking lot, I tell him to leave the engine running, I won't be long and Reese and I head in.
I had never been in this particular HD. It was pretty new, up until a few years ago it and everything around it was unplowed farm land.
When I walked in I could see the paint chips from where I stood. I felt a little panicky anxiety go through me, this looked way too easy. I had read about swiping LGMH's on the boards, I knew it wasn't illegal to take a few, but the question in my mind was, how much is too much? is taking 10 ok but taking 20 be actual theft. Do they know that LGMH's are a hot commodity and because of it have secret survelance set up to nab the Disney Freaks who keep taking all their samples of Alien Green?
I head over to the PC's and look at different brands saying louder than normal to Reese, "This color could pass for water." I give her a wink. We sometimes share brain waves and this was one of those times. She nodded and knew to go along with it. "Mommy, Look they actually have Disney colors here, these are the ones for Nemo." So I casually walk over still looking at other brands along the way, pretending as if it didn't matter if the color I pick was a Disney brand or not.
There were people around and we didn't want to sound so obvious why we were really there. So Reese and I kept up the pretense of looking for "water" we were talking about repainting her brothers room in a Nemo theme. I think we were awfully convincing. These people had no idea that her brother was actually 15 and in high school and he wanted a Nemo themed room no more than he would want a Princess themed room. And actually it wasn't a complete lie, I am repainting Jim's room this summer in an alley street theme, faux brick with graffitti on it for one of the walls 2 of them are gray but covered in posters and the 4th wall will be painted with chalkboard paint and white tab lines for writing his music. Anyway back to the matter at hand. We kept up the Nemo banter for a bit then I said "hey, maybe he'd like an alien room with Buzz lightyear instead." I think he'd love it said Reese, and our focus shifted from blue to green. I couldn't help but notice the people next to us turn abruptly and look at us. I thought maybe they were Dis'ers and there playing the same game as us and we were on the verge of foiling thier plans to take every last LGMH. Reese interupted my thoughts. "Mommy they even have a color called alien green." This girl is good, I love how she eased into the whole alien green thing while maintaining her innocent look.
There were plenty of them. Should I be greedy and take them all? maybe I should be 50% greedy? I settled on 25% and Reese took 25% which some would say that is 50% still, but it's all in how you look at it. With stash in hand we walked out of the store. Once in the truck I yelled to Kent to floor it. He drove away like grandparents out for a Sunday drive. I didn't breathe until we were miles away from there. I looked back to make sure that an employee had not jumped onto a fork lift and followed us, when I didn't see any orange flashing lights I knew we had pulled this one off. I did my best evil laugh and sneered, "You'll never get me copper!" Kent just rolled his eyes.
I made quite a few tags for all of us who are headed down to Disney in Dec. Then I got an idea for something I could make and give to my fellow Dis'ers if I see any while at WDW. (that should be incentive to seek me out) anyway I would need more LGMH's so Reese and I went back a few weeks later, this time under the guise of repainting Reese's room in a Tinkerbell theme. Honestly, I wouldn't mind redoing her room, right now it looks like pepto bysmol exploded all over it.
The mission was the same as before, snag as many LGMH's as possible. I was nervous this time. What if they were just waiting for me to come back, what if they started a new program forthe sole purpose of catching the Limey Swipers? HDSP (Home Depot Secret Police) HDSP employees sitting a few aisles up on a fork lift eating donuts. "We got the perp in sight." I could see myself getting busted. Orange is not my favorite color. Could I handle an orange prison jumper for 6 months? (I assume 6 months is what you get for a limey hiest ) What if the judge wanted to make an example of me and give me 12 months. How would I explain this unfortunate incarceration to my friends and family? Would the judge let me out early to take my trip to Disney in Dec? Probably not, so now I am planning my prison escape . I will need to escape in December so I thought Reese could bring me a candy cane and I could suck it down to a point to use as a weapon, but really I would prefer to not use violence. Then I think this is where I can bring out all the nasty fruitcakes I have received over the years and tried to regift them but they always seem to come back to me, I swear I have a fruitcake that is at least 15 years old. Kent could bring me a fruitcake a week, in the mean time I could be digging the morter away from each brick with my pointy sharp candy cane and replace it with a fruitcake brick until I have done enough to have created an entire fake wall. I think this could work. But what if they put 2 and 2 together and figure out I ran away to WDW and they come looking for me and find me at
MVMCP dancing on main street with Goofy and catching snowflakes on my tongue? Reese brings me back to reality. "Mommy c'mon."
I am sweating as I head over to the paint chips. Is it just me or is that guy following me. We find our alien green. Reese wastes no time in grabbing all of them but one, she turns and walks away. I lingered back a bit, I hate to say this but I even thought of letting her take the fall, after all she was holding the evidence, I could play the mortified Mom, "how dare you steal? I raised you better than that, it's peer pressure causing you to do this right?" They would go easy on Reese, she's so cute and such a charmer. But no!! I refuse to let her go down over my addiction. So I catch up to her and tell her to hand over the chips. She said "Chillax Mommy! I got this." we make it out of the store and halfway to the car I look back to see if we're alone, and we are. I breathe a bit easier but don't fully relax until we are at home.
2 weeks ago Reese tells me we need to go back to HD for more LGMHs. I tell her it's too risky, I am sure they have pictures of us posted at every Home Depot within a 160 mile radius, I aint going near one for a long time, they know what I look like, they have the make and model of my car. I am sure our phone is tapped, and I am pretty sure there are HDSP agents staked out down the road from our house as we speak. "c'mon Mommy, you never back down from a challenge." This is true ya know. So I get to thinking again. plotting and planning all night in the morning I tell Reese I have a secure plan and give her the details we will go in disguise we could be in and out of there and they won't have a clue.
So we put on our disguises, the key is to be as inconspicuos as possible
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They will be looking for my blonde hair, not dread locks.
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Here is Reese outside of the targeted HD.
we walk in all casual, I feel good knowing that I am cleverly disguised. We walk right over to the PC's no fear at all cause we are smart, they are looking for someone else, we might as well be invisible.
Reese grabbed up the LGMH's, there were just a few. I think there might be another Dis'er in this area, where are all the LGMH's? Gosh I hope that woman or man is smart enough to go in disguise and not get caught.
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I have heard that sometimes they keep some PC's in the drawers below, so we checked the drawer and SCORE! tons and tons of that gorgeous alien green color. Reese grabbed them and we took off running out of there
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really there wasn't a need to run, we had out smarted the HDSP agents. like I said before "You'll never get me coppers."
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Hope you all enjoyed our escapade, Mom and I had plans to do a Limey hiest but I kind of ruined that when I fell off the ladder and broke my leg, I suppose we still coul dhave tried, but oh well, maybe if I see her at Thanks giving we'll try then.[/SIZE]
, I had to take a break from figuring out touring plans.
Maybe mom sang us fart songs in the womb, or fart lullabyes as babies, I really don't know how this all came to be, but we think farts are funny, we name the farts too, every thing from the squeeler to the beanie bogley. We have always laughed at farts, tried to imitate the sound. 
OMG you are hilarious!! I've enjoyed so much reading your PTR! And I will let you know I am the same way, I have quirks. But I am with you on the back to the door thing. I've been told it's because I'm Italian and Italians feel that they'll get wacked if the can't see the door. 
I'm sure that you will figure something out and that your day will go well 
I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to get everything done 
great disguises btw.
