I believe I can officially consider myself a Philadelphian.
After nearly 11 years of living in this city, I have experienced the true joy of being a city taxpayer. Yes, that’s right, my stereo was stolen out of my car Tuesday night. It was parked right on my street, too. I’ve parked in much “worse” sections of the city, and never had an issue.
But, the temptation of the 17 CD set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was clearly too much for the vandal, and he (or she) deftly unlocked my car and took it, along with my CD player. If I hadn’t checked the CD set out of the library, I wouldn’t be so upset. It’s more a hassle to have to replace it for them than anything else. No broken windows, no stolen music CDs (guess they didn’t like my taste), no stolen registration or license.
But, I feel that I belong now. I have my urban story. I am a city dweller.
Maybe I’ll even get around to reporting it to the police one of these days.
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Ouch. During my last week working in Detroit I had my car broken into. For whatever reason my spare set of keys was sitting in the bottom of my glove compartment, which was open after the break in. They didn’t see the keys because it was buried under so many papers. They did take a couple of my CDs and one of which was a personally made from a girl who gave it to me for my missions trip to New Mexico. I was not happy to lose that.
Comment by mb — 5/26/2005 @ 7:17 pm