The "Nice Day" Criminals

     After a long day of crafting (much more about that later), Maya and I became teenage criminals. In a good way, I promise.

     Our short-lived life of crime involved writing on post-it notes:

Have A Nice Day!

- The Secret Neighbors

...and placing them along the street in places such as the backs of mailboxes, the rear-view mirrors of parked cars, and the sides of trashcans, in the hopes of brightening someone's day with an anonymous, creepy, and definitely suspicious message.

     Having planned our illegal activities well in advance, (here I quote Maya - "we'll make it up as we go along, okay?") we executed our placement of the post-its in the following manner. 

1) Ride your bike through the neighborhood with post-its awkwardly at the ready in your sweaty hands.

2) Look as non-suspicious as possible. (Tip: whistle, talk loudly, explain to thin air what a perfect child you are and how you look down upon other teenagers who stick anonymous post-its on private property)

3) Find a target. Example: Green minivan parked in the street.

4) Whisper to your partner in crime, "This one is MINE!" (evil laugh following this statement optional)

5) Slow down and ready the now very sweaty and non-adhesive post-it note.

6) Stealthily, and skillfully (aka: don't crash or set the car alarm off) place the sticky note in a visible area (aka: wherever the heck you can get it) and speed away.

     While carrying out these procedures we imagined possible scenarios in which the notes could be found.

Scenario One:

Wife -  "Hi, honey I'm home!"
Husband - "Oh, um... hey"
     * insert smooching sounds here *
H - "Woah! Why are you in such a good mood?"
W - "You were so sweet this morning!"
H - "I was?"
W - "Why YES! That note on my car window was so cute!!"
H - "What no-" (thinks about it for a second) "I mean, I'm glad you thought so sweetie"
      * more smooching *

WIN? I think so

Scenario Two:

Person walking dog: "Fido!! That is the grossest poop that has ever come out of you!!! UUGGHH! Why is this day so HORRIBLE!! OH MY GOD!"
* Walks over to bag station and finds this *

Scenario 2 continued with ending 1

Person walking dog - "AAAHH that's so sweet, and now my day is SO much better! I'm going to go donate all my money to charity the moment I get home!"

Scenario 2 continued with ending 2

Person walking dog - "Huh, what kinda joke is this?"


     We had a ton of fun doing this, and being the type of teenagers who sit around writing blogs, this was the sneakiest thing we've ever done, and I hope it's only the beginning of our career as the "Nice Day" Criminals.

~Adair