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For the second time in three months, one of our cars has been broken into. Luckily this time there was no actual breaking*, as the lock that doesn't freeze fell out (that's right) and the lock that does freeze does so to the point where you actually, literally cannot get into the car, and your damn wife ends up having to drive you to work, and by extension has to get ready in 3 minutes instead of the 15 she would have had if she had been allowed to have been about 20 minutes late. Right. So, we hadn't been locking it.
The thing about this that is the worst, worse than the knowledge that someone can just help themselves to the inside of your car, and worse than the knowledge that once they do so, they're not interested in stealing your kickass clear umbrella, kickass telescoping snow scraper, or loose change, is knowing that these damn people got NOTHING out of it. Well, okay, today they got the face plate to a 2.5 year old cd player, which I hear fetches a bundle on eBay.** But, believe it or not, I did not have a whole bunch of narcotics in my back seat (surprise!) and it turns out that it's pretty hard to rip that particular type of cd player out of the dash.
For some reason the person decided to keep the face plate of the cd player, so we're at least going to have to get a new one of those, if not a whole new player. As you can imagine, though, a car that's having its locks*** fall out is not a new or healthy car, and so I'm thinking maybe it wouldn't be good to put more money into it. This subject has to be broached carefully, though, because I have already been accused of being "against" the car. Which I am not, but I'm trying to be practical. That is how it works - one of us gets to act out our sentimental attachment and the other has to be the realistic one. We take turns.
*as opposed to LAST time, when I was bumbling my way to the car and realized that for some reason there was a fist-sized hole in the window.
**no I don't.
***the other side's lock fell out and got re-installed last winter
The thing about this that is the worst, worse than the knowledge that someone can just help themselves to the inside of your car, and worse than the knowledge that once they do so, they're not interested in stealing your kickass clear umbrella, kickass telescoping snow scraper, or loose change, is knowing that these damn people got NOTHING out of it. Well, okay, today they got the face plate to a 2.5 year old cd player, which I hear fetches a bundle on eBay.** But, believe it or not, I did not have a whole bunch of narcotics in my back seat (surprise!) and it turns out that it's pretty hard to rip that particular type of cd player out of the dash.
For some reason the person decided to keep the face plate of the cd player, so we're at least going to have to get a new one of those, if not a whole new player. As you can imagine, though, a car that's having its locks*** fall out is not a new or healthy car, and so I'm thinking maybe it wouldn't be good to put more money into it. This subject has to be broached carefully, though, because I have already been accused of being "against" the car. Which I am not, but I'm trying to be practical. That is how it works - one of us gets to act out our sentimental attachment and the other has to be the realistic one. We take turns.
*as opposed to LAST time, when I was bumbling my way to the car and realized that for some reason there was a fist-sized hole in the window.
**no I don't.
***the other side's lock fell out and got re-installed last winter
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