Monday, February 08, 2010
Where there's a car theif there's a way
So here I sit going through the greiving process. I am exhausted after carpooling with my wife to work this morning at 6:30AM. It feels like my car is in the shop. Like I am waiting for a call to say "your car is ready." and then I will go pick it up. The reality is, the call will never come. My car is missing. It is like a lost child. It has been gone for more than 48 hours now. I suppose I need closure, like a funeral for it or something.
See, on Friday I went to lunch at 11:30AM to my favorite lunchtime restaurant, Mango's. They serve the best pho chicken noodle soup ever. It is like chunks of chicken in hearty noodles. They furnish me with a good supply of diet cokes to keep me awake while I eat. When I was there someone was in my seat so I had to sit somewhere else. On the opposite booth was a santa claus looking guy staring at me. After the meal I went to fedex next door and mailed my mom's cable box, otherwise they would charge her $800 for a cable box. So I get back in my car and go to work.
Now at work I usually park in the same parking spot as well. This time I was sure that I got my same spot. I got back from lunch at 12:30. Many people were there getting back from lunch. So I go in to work. Even though it is Friday I stay until the closing bell at 6PM and then I go out towards the parking lot. At that time there are only three other cars in the parking lot. But where is my car? Dude! Where's my car? Thinking it was towed I go back inside and ask the security gaurd if it was towed. He said no. So I call the police and make a police report. My car was stolen.
At first you are in disbelief. It is like, it can't be. Who would do such a thing. No, it can't be gone. Then you get a little depressed, like, but that was my car. Then I was in anger and frustration mode for the rest of the night. In talking with the cops of Farmer's Branch they said their systems are not tied to others. So I actually went to the Carrollton jail and asked them if they had any news on it and gave them more info. I then went back to the old house and was worried the criminals would us the cars gps system to find my home, so I took my fake replica of a 45 just in case. I was maaad.
When I got home I submitted a claim to USAA online. They said it could take up to 30 days and at least will give me a rental car. The thing is though, say it is a total loss. I think they will pay off my bank note but I won't get anything else out of it. What that means is, I have no car. Had this been four months ago I would have said,"let me go get a new one then" But not now after we have bought a new house. Now we a pinching pennies and my car gets stolen. I tell people now I am going to get a junker car. I think I might borrow my mom's van up in wichita. It's got over 200K miles so I think that counts as a junker. Maybe I should look at things better. This is an opportunity for the creator of a free nationwide carpool site RideSearch.com to carpool. Something I know alot about. As for the crooks who stole my car, what you did for evil I am confident God will use for good.
See, on Friday I went to lunch at 11:30AM to my favorite lunchtime restaurant, Mango's. They serve the best pho chicken noodle soup ever. It is like chunks of chicken in hearty noodles. They furnish me with a good supply of diet cokes to keep me awake while I eat. When I was there someone was in my seat so I had to sit somewhere else. On the opposite booth was a santa claus looking guy staring at me. After the meal I went to fedex next door and mailed my mom's cable box, otherwise they would charge her $800 for a cable box. So I get back in my car and go to work.
Now at work I usually park in the same parking spot as well. This time I was sure that I got my same spot. I got back from lunch at 12:30. Many people were there getting back from lunch. So I go in to work. Even though it is Friday I stay until the closing bell at 6PM and then I go out towards the parking lot. At that time there are only three other cars in the parking lot. But where is my car? Dude! Where's my car? Thinking it was towed I go back inside and ask the security gaurd if it was towed. He said no. So I call the police and make a police report. My car was stolen.
At first you are in disbelief. It is like, it can't be. Who would do such a thing. No, it can't be gone. Then you get a little depressed, like, but that was my car. Then I was in anger and frustration mode for the rest of the night. In talking with the cops of Farmer's Branch they said their systems are not tied to others. So I actually went to the Carrollton jail and asked them if they had any news on it and gave them more info. I then went back to the old house and was worried the criminals would us the cars gps system to find my home, so I took my fake replica of a 45 just in case. I was maaad.
When I got home I submitted a claim to USAA online. They said it could take up to 30 days and at least will give me a rental car. The thing is though, say it is a total loss. I think they will pay off my bank note but I won't get anything else out of it. What that means is, I have no car. Had this been four months ago I would have said,"let me go get a new one then" But not now after we have bought a new house. Now we a pinching pennies and my car gets stolen. I tell people now I am going to get a junker car. I think I might borrow my mom's van up in wichita. It's got over 200K miles so I think that counts as a junker. Maybe I should look at things better. This is an opportunity for the creator of a free nationwide carpool site RideSearch.com to carpool. Something I know alot about. As for the crooks who stole my car, what you did for evil I am confident God will use for good.
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