Life in the big city.
Oct. 17th, 2006 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethDear Penny-Ante Burglar,
I realize that my car, sitting in an open lot before sunrise, before the attendant shows up, is a very tempting target. It's the tradeoff I make for having a clear field of vision when I get out of my car at quarter past four in the morning, rather than risking a parking garage that provides lots of crannies for lurkers.
I'm not even terribly upset that you stole my crappy $20 boom box with the broken antenna that only read CDs about a third of the time anyway. I have to check whether I left "Nimrod" actually IN it, but even if you got a Green Day CD out of the bargain, I can replace that too.
However, I would just like to point out that the car was UNLOCKED. There was no need at all to smash the driver's side window if you wanted to go looking for goodies.
Clearly, you were too cracked-out to even try the damned door. Now I'm not just out the $20 radio and maybe $7 for a used CD (if I neglected to rip it to my hard drive, because if I did that, hell, I'll just burn a copy). I'm also going to be out however much it costs to fix the WINDOW.
Because, 15-year-old beater? Which this OBVIOUSLY was? Of course I don't have comprehensive on it. Just collision.
What could you possibly get for a cheap semi-broken boom box? $5? One vial of crack?
May that be the one that stops your heart.
No love,
Me
I realize that my car, sitting in an open lot before sunrise, before the attendant shows up, is a very tempting target. It's the tradeoff I make for having a clear field of vision when I get out of my car at quarter past four in the morning, rather than risking a parking garage that provides lots of crannies for lurkers.
I'm not even terribly upset that you stole my crappy $20 boom box with the broken antenna that only read CDs about a third of the time anyway. I have to check whether I left "Nimrod" actually IN it, but even if you got a Green Day CD out of the bargain, I can replace that too.
However, I would just like to point out that the car was UNLOCKED. There was no need at all to smash the driver's side window if you wanted to go looking for goodies.
Clearly, you were too cracked-out to even try the damned door. Now I'm not just out the $20 radio and maybe $7 for a used CD (if I neglected to rip it to my hard drive, because if I did that, hell, I'll just burn a copy). I'm also going to be out however much it costs to fix the WINDOW.
Because, 15-year-old beater? Which this OBVIOUSLY was? Of course I don't have comprehensive on it. Just collision.
What could you possibly get for a cheap semi-broken boom box? $5? One vial of crack?
May that be the one that stops your heart.
No love,
Me
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Date: 2006-10-17 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 05:52 pm (UTC)i've seen those cost very little with a used part. crosses-fingers.
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Date: 2006-10-17 05:36 pm (UTC)May the repairs turn out to be not overly expensive.
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Date: 2006-10-17 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 06:44 pm (UTC)If you need a laugh, I'm happy to share the story about the penny-ante burglar that got chased out of our bedroom by my nekkid husband.
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 07:13 pm (UTC)Nevertheless, this guy did. I'm sleeping, as is Kevin, and I wake up to go the bathroom. Turn to get out of bed, nekkid, and someone moves fast at the end of the bed. Take a second for my foggy brain to figure out that Kevin is Still Asleep Next To Me. So who the frak is that!? Like any self-respecting woman of 26, I hug the sheets to me and immediately start screaming (how embarrassing). Prompting Kevin to launch from the bed and chase the (it turns out) kid down the stairs. In his birthday suit. With everything dangling down. Kid heads out the back door, leaving Kevin unable to pursue. Unfortunately, he had already grabbed my backpack, which contained my laptop and all my handwritten notes for my master's thesis on it. Didn't care about the freakin laptop, but I did want my thesis notes. We searched the fourth ward the next day hoping to find the backpack sitting around, but didn't. Set me back three months.
Swine crackheads! Though this guy was I think joyriding. Heh heh... let's see if these guys will wake up if I go in their room.
I can laugh now. It was pretty scary then.
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:52 pm (UTC)May a large anvil fall on the burglar's head.
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Date: 2006-10-17 07:07 pm (UTC)It happened to me in New Haven a while back; fortunately I found a replacement window in a junk yard for $15, which is something you could certainly try. My car's about as old as yours is, so no comprehensive, either.
Best of luck.
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Date: 2006-10-17 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 07:36 pm (UTC)Here in MA. Glass replacement is covered 100%, you should check with your insurance agency just in case it is covered in your area.
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Date: 2006-10-17 07:40 pm (UTC)So no dice.
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Date: 2006-10-18 01:39 am (UTC)the car is worth, and total it.
Both the losers that stupidly broke into my cars ended up in jail (one got a good beating
along the way). Kharma will even things out.
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Date: 2006-10-18 12:08 am (UTC)What a sad world in which a woman is forced to make such compromises.
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Date: 2006-10-18 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-18 03:28 am (UTC)It's not the professionals one has to worry about with a car such as yours. It's the freakin' amateurs.