AutoNeurotica

So our cars were broken into the other day. Mostly our fault for leaving them unlocked in our own driveway, but that's what you get for living on the corner of Rape and Carjack. It had to have been kids, they took my electric razor, all my CDs (sans the Music Man and the audio book of Great Gatsby, yeah yeah, shut up) the change I had, cash, tire pressure gauge (odd) but left the comic books and cell phone accessories. Out of the wife's car they took the same thing, some cash and her make up. Yeah, make up. That's what I said. Everyone tells me it was probably kids looking for something to sell for drug money, but some how I don't think so. I think they were just doing it because. I mean, make up? Lots of 15 year old boys need that you know, if they're Eddie Izzard. Even kids don't need an electric razor. Well some might, but they're mutants anyway, let 'em keep it, society belittles them enough. Even the CDs, most were burned so they had no idea what was on them. I'd tell you but you'd ridicule me, let's just say The Music Man wasn't the ghey-ist CD I owned, ok? Just leave it alone.

The scary part was we thought they had stolen a vallet key out of the wife's car, and it had a house key on it. I immediately got all the locks changed on our house. $90 later I find the key in a jeans pocket in the laundry, well better safe than sorry. It's all about peace of mind.

We also called the cops, filled a report (which we still don't have) and called both car and home owners insurance to report a claim. Car insurance is basically going to "give you the finger and you give me my phone call" and not cover anything. Home owners is a little better, but along with a copy of the police report, any receipts for items stolen, they want notarized witness testimony of non-relatives that the items actually existed. Poor wife has had her car a month and has had maybe 3 people ride in it, one of whom is two years old. That's going to be tricky.

So now I have to ask all my co-workers with whom I occasionally drive to lunch if they can sign a piece of paper stating I had a CD holder full of CDs and an electric razor. Bully for me. Seems like a lot of work just to cover our deductable. I mean, the make-up was around $200 bucks, but we're also claiming a lot of CDs (20 per case, plus some outside the cases, 60 total) and I don't think those are covered. I can understand their reasoning, people would claim one or two CDs, but we're talking about two entire holders full, 20 each. At $15 a CD that's $600. That's almost small claims court.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted on the events of the claim, I'm sure it will take 5 years to resolve. The foresnic cop fingerprinted my car and everything so it's really super official. And now we lock are doors.