Jack and I had just moved into a small rental house for a temporary work assignment.

It was a quiet neighborhood with a patchy lawn and tan bricks. We’d barely

finished unpacking when a woman named Lindsey, dressed in pastel and holding

a tray of cookies, stopped by. She was overly friendly, but her eyes kept

darting around like she was sizing us up. She warned us about a strict HOA rule:

only one car allowed per driveway. We shrugged it off; we weren’t staying long.

But three days later, I woke up to the sound of tow trucks hauling both

our cars away. Lindsey, wearing a bathrobe, stood nearby, looking smug.

I called her out on it, mentioning a small sticker on my car that indicated

we were part of a government operation. Lindsey’s face went, pale when

she realized she had just interfered with an undercover investigation.

I made a quick call, and the next morning, a suited agent arrived at her door.

The agent explained that she had disrupted an active federal investigation

by towing two marked government vehicles, costing $25,000 in damages.

Lindsey was left stunned and helpless, staring at her shattered coffee mug.

Jack couldn’t resist a final jab: “Maybe next time, just bake the cookies and leave it at that