The Snowman Did It !!!!

Henry was coming home drunk. He just got fired from his job. He got out of his car staggering. He thought he saw his neighbor’s snowman moving towards him in a fast motion. He shocked his head to try to clear it. He was really drunk if he think a snowman was moving.

He quickly got in his house. Henry was a high functioning alcoholic. He can never keep a job. He was always late for work if he forgot to set his alarm.

The Snowman was now in front of his living room window giving him a grin.

Henry went into the kitchen, to get a drink of water and took two tablets of Ibuprofen so he won’t have a hangover the next morning.

Henry stood in front of his kitchen sink drinking his glass of water. He looked out of the kitchen window, he saw the Snowman staring at him with an angry face.

Henry dropped his glass of water in the sink. Henry went upstairs to his bedroom. He shut the curtains and flopped on the bed without taking his clothes off.

He woke up the next morning on top of the bed covers. He looked out his bedroom window. He saw the neighbor’s Snowman was back in its spot in front of the neighbor’s yard.

Henry did not remember a lot that happened last night but he remembered the Snowman moving. He just assumed it had to do with his drinking.

Henry took a shower and got dressed. He went to the kitchen and made coffee. He went to the outside front porch. He put his cup of coffee on top of the porch table and lit his cigarette. It was a crisp cold morning at 10 am.

The lawn was covered in a fresh coat of snow that morning. He looked at the Snowman next door, it had a smoke pipe in its coal mouth.

Henry’s eyes pop open wide. He dropped his coffee cup and his cigarette dropped from his mouth.

Henry looked around to see if any of his neighbors were outside seeing what he was seeing.

No one was outside but him and the Snowman. Henry stepped on his cigarette and went quickly inside.

Henry thought he was hallucinating. Why was this happening to him?

***

Two weeks ago Henry got hired as a teller at a bank for the holiday season. It was a small family own credit union bank. Some of the tellers were going on vacation and one was out on sick leave. He was the backup teller.

A week ago the manager of the bank asked him to come with her to the bank vault and balance the money. There was an important call for the branch manager to take. The manager did not f0llow protocol and left him by himself in the vault. There were a lot of bags of 20’s due to the elder customers asking for them during Christmas for their grandkids.

Henry took a bag of 20’s worth over fifty thousand dollars and hid it in his suit jacket. He left the vault and took his winter jacket to cover his crime of stealing 50,000 dollars. He justified his stealing, he owed money on his mortgage. He placed the money secretly away from the camera in his coat.

He quickly got back into the vault before the manager came back. The manager was distracted from the call, she forgot where they left off with their money count. Henry provided that amount that would cover the fifty thousand he had just stolen.

The Credit Union Bank was going to be closing in fifteen minutes. It was not a busy branch. The Alarm in the vault goes on automatically in ten minutes. The manager did not have time to recount the money in the vault.

All she cared about was that everything was balanced at the end of the day.

***

Henry had been living with the guilt for a week now and the Snowman seemed to know of his crime. He thinks he is going crazy because why would a Snowman be moving?

He went back into the house to check if the fifty thousand dollars was still where he hid it. It was not in a large tin container in the basement.

Police siren was off in the distant. Henry thought he had nothing to worry about. The money was no longer in his house. Henry did not know that there were three cameras in the vault of the credit union. There was a hidden camera in the blind spot of the vault. He thought he got fired for tardiness.

Police had a warrant to arrest him for his crime. They took Henry out of his home in the cuff. Henry looked at the neighbor’s Snowman.

There was a twenty dollar bill on its tree branch hand. The snowman had a big grain in its mouth.

Henry started to shut, “The Snowman did it!!!”