The Episode of the Purse
Aug. 10th, 2018 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerTwo days ago my purse was stolen, and I’ve spent the time since calling: the police, the bank, the credit reporting agencies, Amazon (to deregister my Kindle), the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and God knows who else in my quest to repair the damage.
I’ve been waiting to get mad about the whole thing, because generally speaking I can get a good grudge on (ask me about the customer who wanted extra hot shots! THERE IS NO EXTRA HOT SHOT BUTTON, MOTHERFUCKER, THE BARISTA ENDED UP ADDING HOT WATER SO I HOPE YOU LIKE THE SWEET SWEET TASTE OF DILUTION), but mostly I just feel puzzled.
They left my keys sitting neatly in the front seat of my car. The purse was not in the car when it was stolen, by the way, so this means that they went out their way to find the car specifically in order to leave the keys there. Were they hoping to steal the car too, but when they saw it, they went, “Oh no, this car is too old to be worth the possible jail time?” But just because you don’t want the car that doesn’t mean you have to leave the keys where they’re easy to find. Was there a brief flare of conscience? What is your motivation in this scene, purse thieves???
Anyway, there was very little cash in my purse, most of the physical objects in there were old and kind of battered, and the bank has already dealt with the fraudulent charges, so monetarily the loss has not been too bad, knock on wood. I’m a little bitter about losing my little notebook with my carefully tabulated garden notes, my lists of films directed by women (both seen and to-see), and my Spacebunny stickers, but them’s the breaks.
I already broke out my next notebook (I keep a stock; I’m now using my ”Nevertheless She Persisted notebook, which I’ve been impatient to use with the upcoming election etc.) and I managed to reconstruct my film list from my DW posts. Did you know that I’ve watched forty films directed by women this year? C’est vrai!
asakiyume, I’m going to have to put The Mystery of the Secret Cove on hold till I’ve got a new Kindle (which will happen by September; Briarley royalties will cover it). I know it’s possible to read Kindle files on the computer but it’s just not the same.
I’ve been waiting to get mad about the whole thing, because generally speaking I can get a good grudge on (ask me about the customer who wanted extra hot shots! THERE IS NO EXTRA HOT SHOT BUTTON, MOTHERFUCKER, THE BARISTA ENDED UP ADDING HOT WATER SO I HOPE YOU LIKE THE SWEET SWEET TASTE OF DILUTION), but mostly I just feel puzzled.
They left my keys sitting neatly in the front seat of my car. The purse was not in the car when it was stolen, by the way, so this means that they went out their way to find the car specifically in order to leave the keys there. Were they hoping to steal the car too, but when they saw it, they went, “Oh no, this car is too old to be worth the possible jail time?” But just because you don’t want the car that doesn’t mean you have to leave the keys where they’re easy to find. Was there a brief flare of conscience? What is your motivation in this scene, purse thieves???
Anyway, there was very little cash in my purse, most of the physical objects in there were old and kind of battered, and the bank has already dealt with the fraudulent charges, so monetarily the loss has not been too bad, knock on wood. I’m a little bitter about losing my little notebook with my carefully tabulated garden notes, my lists of films directed by women (both seen and to-see), and my Spacebunny stickers, but them’s the breaks.
I already broke out my next notebook (I keep a stock; I’m now using my ”Nevertheless She Persisted notebook, which I’ve been impatient to use with the upcoming election etc.) and I managed to reconstruct my film list from my DW posts. Did you know that I’ve watched forty films directed by women this year? C’est vrai!
asakiyume, I’m going to have to put The Mystery of the Secret Cove on hold till I’ve got a new Kindle (which will happen by September; Briarley royalties will cover it). I know it’s possible to read Kindle files on the computer but it’s just not the same.
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Date: 2018-08-11 01:36 pm (UTC)