I had my week old Dewalt drill missing after Ohio and didn't think much of it because I could have easily miss placed it. Between my shop at home and the business, I figured it would turn up since it was my main drill. I used it to replace the tail light lenses in my truck Saturday night at my hotel and removed all items from my truck to my room including my Dewalt drill. I put it back in the truck Sunday morning and headed to the track where I picked up parts from everyone. I really didn't think much of the drill because it would turn up where ever I had set it down at some point, so I thought. Then Nathan called me and asked if I had another box of stuff that I was supposed to bring him to the Cedar Falls Iowa race. I know I picked up a bunch of stuff Sunday from several people and dropped it all off at my business when I got back to DesMoines because I didn't have room in my shop at home due to moving things around. I checked the business for the extra box of things and even looked at home again just incase I forgot to pull something out of the truck at the shop. Nothing. Needless to say the parts #1 weren't mine to loose, #2 I should have locked my truck up when I wasn't setting in it, #3 Don't trust that parking with our group would be safe to leave my truck unlocked and walk away from it. I'm not remotely accusing anyone from our group taking the parts I picked up Sunday. I just know I walked away from my truck with the windows open and it was unlocked when I went up to watch everyone run as I was taking photos. Now I have to replace parts that were previously owned by some important folks from our group that have passed on. I can quickly make new parts appear but I can't replace the value they carried. This is just a reminder to everyone to keep things locked up especially when they are clearly not your things. Its sad to say but that is the world we live in. No way to make it up to everyone that trusted me to get the parts to him. I was careless in my duty to keep them safe. No excuses for it.
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