maylands - abandoned caravan house
across from michael's house was an old geezer who died. out the front was a decaying campervan with faded stickers all over it. the stickers proved he had camped in every major country town in australia. there was no driving seat at the front of the van. just a steering wheel and one of those green plastic stackable chairs that everyone used to have. the legs of the plastic chair had bricks taped to them so that the chair wouldnt slip as much. i can't believe he had driven all around australia like this.
round the side of the house was a forest of bushes. i ducked through them to look for and opening and found a flywire window someone had slashed. i climbed on in.
the house was filled with dust and all the worst wicker ornaments. there was so much stuff to loot but i didn't want any of it. i settled for taking an old tape player and some tapes. i also found some really old notebooks that might have "lore".
at the time of looting, i had been playing a lot of red dead redemption 2. every house in that game has a story of the residents - you just have to poke through the drawers enough.
i took the stuff back to my house and listened to the tapes. bird sounds. the note book was very very interesting.
for many years, the geezer had documented the goings-on of kelvin street's residents. there was the neighbour from no. 43 who was always coming in for a "cuppa" and carrying on and being generally unbearable. after a few entries, and some warnings, the geezer banned this neighbour from coming to his house.
the more i read, the worse i felt for stealing. even though i am perhaps the only person who would ever find this guy's notebook interesting, i didn't think i was the one to have it. perhaps he had family who would like to read it. i slept on the bad feeling and in the morning decided to return the stolen items.
when i got back to the window through the bushes, it had been patched up. shit, i thought. perhaps the house was being attended to. i busted the flywire again and poked the notebook and cassette tapes and cassette player back through. this is proof i am a conscientous person.