fuck

[kindkit]

Well, it would seem that my car has been stolen. I don't know what anybody would want with it--it's a 1997 Honda Civic and pretty beat up, although it runs fine. I'm assuming joyriders or some shit.

Frustratingly/embarrassingly, I don't know exactly when it was taken. I came home from work Monday evening didn't go out on Tuesday, and although I did go out on Wednesday, I didn't take the car and I didn't really look for it, so it might have been there or not.

It wasn't towed--I called the parking enforcement towing service the apartment complex uses, and they said they don't have it.

I've called the cops and am waiting for them to show up, which of course could be a while.

Slightly amusing thing: this is the second time that car has been stolen. The first time was in 2001, when I've only had it a couple of months. It was found basically before I knew it was gone, when a gas station clerk in Wisconsin (I was in Minneapolis at the time) noticed a whole convoy of young people stopping to gas up at 3 in the morning, heading Chicago-wards.

Not at all amusing thing: I had a copy of my apartment key hidden in the trunk, because one time years ago I misplaced my keys at work (they'd fallen into a garbage can and I was very lucky to find them the next day) and couldn't get into my apartment. I'm probably going to need to ask the apartment management to change the locks. They are unlikely to be happy that I made a copy of the key. (I'm extremely tempted to just . . . not, on the grounds that the key was hidden behind the trunk lining and you'd have to be looking for it to notice it. Also that car thieves are unlikely to also be burglars, and also that the car is probably many miles away by now, in parts. I'm weighing the small (??) risk of getting burgled vs. the risk of the management company deciding that I broke the terms of the lease.)

Cops have been and gone since I started this post. Time to finish my insurance claim and then take an Uber to work. Feh.

Comments

[sparkythegeek]

Oh no! :(

[kindkit]

It was quite a start to the day.

[schneefink]

Oh no, that sucks :(

[kindkit]

Yup. It's not catastrophic, but the timing is inconvenient.

[princessofgeeks]

I'm so sorry!

[kindkit]

Thanks--I think more than anything I'm just mad about all the hassle I'm going to have to go through.

[aurumcalendula]

Oh no!

[kindkit]

I could have done without this, yeah.

[sovay]

Well, it would seem that my car has been stolen.

I'm so sorry! I hope it can be discovered randomly at a gas station this time, too.

*hugs*

[kindkit]

Luck doesn't seem to be with me this time. *sigh* I was thinking about replacing it anyway, but I was hoping to go a couple more years first.

[sovay]

Luck doesn't seem to be with me this time.

Feh. In that case, may your insurance do the right thing.

[radiantfracture]

Oh man, that's rotten. I hope they find it.

[kindkit]

Thanks! I'm not quite sure what to hope for. I'd rather they didn't find it at all than find it absolutely trashed, or far away. It's a very old car, and the cost of fixing it up wouldn't really be worth it, whereas if they never find it, I get a (probably very small) check from insurance and no need to fuss with, say, getting my car out of impound 50 miles away.

[glinda]

oh that sucks, sorry you've got to deal with that.

[kindkit]

Thanks! I keep hoping it'll all turn out to be a bad dream, but no luck so far.

[cyprinella]

What a goddamn pain the ass that has to be. :(

[kindkit]

That's really the worst thing, what a hassle it's all going to be. Well, that and the cost of a replacement car. I doubt I'll get much from insurance. I have savings enough for a decent down payment, but that was my top surgery money. Which means I'll probably have to dip into my retirement savings for the surgery. At least I turn 55 later this year and I can do that without a big tax hit.

[lilacsigil]

Ugh, how incredibly frustrating. I'm sorry bad luck struck your car!

[silveradept]

That's terrible timing and an awful lot of hassle to deal with.