Depressed - my kid's backpack was stolen

ginnyvere
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:45:20 +0000

I agree about checking the buy backs at the bookstore. I had an expensive physics textbook stolen the morning of my final exam. I left it in the lounge while I showered, and when I came back it was gone. Privately, I always suspected that one of my three other hallmates who had the same class picked it up accidentally and never realized that they had two copies. We’d all been in there studying together that morning, and there were only about ten minutes when one or the other of us wasn’t in the lounge.

I would’ve done okay on the final even without those last few hours of studying, but I went to the bookstore to see if anyone had sold it back, and they told me that no one had brought one in that morning. But then the bookstore offered to let me borrow another copy of the book until after my final, which I thought was amazingly generous.