It finally happened and I can't believe it.
Our car got ransacked again last night (only two days after the last time), and our copy of The Best of Dorothy Parker is actually gone.
The break-ins are getting more annoying, and today when we all went out to our car the mess was way worse than usual with CDs and napkins and other random items everywhere, but no Dorothy Parker to be found. It was the only thing missing.
Maybe this is our version of a Little Free Library now? Will they return it when they are done? Bring us a different book? What new book should we replace it with? Maybe I should put in a copy of my own novel as a self-promotion? (Except that I like whatever's in the glove compartment to be something I can pull out and read if I'm stuck somewhere, and I already know how my book ends.)
So there's that. The end of an era. So long, Dorothy Parker. Your best was finally good enough.
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
Saturday, October 21, 2017
I guess the best of Dorothy Parker isn't good enough.
Our car gets broken into about every six weeks.
For the most part our neighborhood is fairly safe. I'm not nervous walking our dog at night. Our street dead ends into the railroad tracks a block away from our house so there isn't a lot of through traffic that direction. We have nice neighbors. I don't feel scared in or around our house. (Although there was a carjacking on our corner a few months ago, but I'm still more nervous about running into a skunk than a criminal.)
Our garage only holds one car, so we tend to park the minivan inside, and the sedan in the driveway by the alley. We can't keep a garage door opener in the sedan because then someone could use that to break into the whole garage and they might take, I don't know, our kites or a rake or something. We tend to keep the doors to the car unlocked simply because I'd rather deal with people rifling through everything than a smashed window, but it's still annoying.
I don't know if it's the same person or group who does a regular round of rummaging through cars on our block, or if it varies, but they always go through it the same way. We come out in the morning to find all the compartments wide open and everything a more jumbled mess than usual. I mostly get pissed off if they leave a door open enough to keep the dome light on which runs down the battery. Our last car they used to steal the radio out of over and over, but that hasn't happened in years (probably because there's not much of a market for them anymore). Lately nothing gets taken that we've noticed. They leave the change on the floor, they don't want pens or the car owner's manual, and last week they even rejected our GPS which we'd accidentally left in the bin between the front seats and they dumped it on the floor mat.
There is not much of value in our car, but when it's rifled through, there is one thing we always check for.
For the most part our neighborhood is fairly safe. I'm not nervous walking our dog at night. Our street dead ends into the railroad tracks a block away from our house so there isn't a lot of through traffic that direction. We have nice neighbors. I don't feel scared in or around our house. (Although there was a carjacking on our corner a few months ago, but I'm still more nervous about running into a skunk than a criminal.)
Our garage only holds one car, so we tend to park the minivan inside, and the sedan in the driveway by the alley. We can't keep a garage door opener in the sedan because then someone could use that to break into the whole garage and they might take, I don't know, our kites or a rake or something. We tend to keep the doors to the car unlocked simply because I'd rather deal with people rifling through everything than a smashed window, but it's still annoying.
I don't know if it's the same person or group who does a regular round of rummaging through cars on our block, or if it varies, but they always go through it the same way. We come out in the morning to find all the compartments wide open and everything a more jumbled mess than usual. I mostly get pissed off if they leave a door open enough to keep the dome light on which runs down the battery. Our last car they used to steal the radio out of over and over, but that hasn't happened in years (probably because there's not much of a market for them anymore). Lately nothing gets taken that we've noticed. They leave the change on the floor, they don't want pens or the car owner's manual, and last week they even rejected our GPS which we'd accidentally left in the bin between the front seats and they dumped it on the floor mat.
There is not much of value in our car, but when it's rifled through, there is one thing we always check for.
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